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This website provides scholars with a one-stop shop for the latest research published in American studies journals throughout the world. Organized by the International Initiative of the American Studies Association and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this site is the outcome of a collaboration between numerous journal editors around the world.

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Applicants must submit a brief statement outlining their qualifications and experience and a maximum two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment. Do not submit length academic resumes.

Letters suggesting or recommending a candidate should also relate the candidate’s experience to the committee’s work. In addition to the letter, nominations must include the nominee’s brief statement outlining his or her qualifications and experience and a maximum two page vita by email as a Word, Word Perfect, or PDF document in a single attachment for each candidate. Do not submit multiple nominations in a single document.

Materials are due on or before April 1, 2010. Send to the Executive Committee, American Studies Association, e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Standing Committees:

Committee on American Studies Programs and Centers: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments and programs, and has the responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Committee on Ethnic Studies: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and professional concerns affecting Ethnic Studies programs, departments, and scholars; to act as a liaison among association standing committees; to be responsible for liaison with other ethnic studies organizations, and to have responsibility for special tasks involving Ethnic Studies scholars and scholarship. Two positions, three-year terms.

Committee on Graduate Education: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current issues affecting graduate education in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and other interdisciplinary graduate-level instruction; to act as a liaison between the association and national organizations concerning graduate education in the field, such as, but not limited to, the National Research Council; to act as a liaison among association standing committees on issues concerning graduate education; and shall have responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s institutional members that have Ph.D. and M.A. degree granting programs concerning graduate education. Two positions, three year terms.

Committee on Regional Chapters: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current activities, interests, and needs of the regional chapters; acts as a liaison between the association and the regional chapters; and has responsibility for special tasks involving the association’s regional chapters. Five positions (one each from the Chesapeake, Great Lakes, Hawai’i, Kentucky-Tennessee, and Southern regions), three-year terms. Nominees are also presented by the chapters.

Committee on K-16 Collaboration: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional orientations of K-16 educators involved with American Studies programs or curricula. Two positions, three-year terms.

International Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting international scholars and students in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving international scholars and students in the membership. International members of the ASA especially are encouraged to apply. Three positions, three-year terms.

Minority Scholars’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting minority scholars in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving minority scholars in the membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Students’ Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and orientations of American Studies students. Four positions, two-year terms.

Women’s Committee: Keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the issues affecting women in the profession and has responsibility for special tasks involving women in the membership. Two positions, three-year terms.

Prize Committees (2011):

The Prize Committees for 2011 start work during the fall of the 2010-2011 academic year and complete their work by September 2011.

John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee: Selects the best-published book in American Studies submitted each year to the Committee by authors and publishers. Three positions, one-year terms.

Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize Committee: Selects a person for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. Three positions, one-year terms.

Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Committee: Selects the best completed dissertation in American Studies submitted to the Committee by graduate programs in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, and American Women’s Studies. Three positions, one-year terms.

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The term American studies encompasses a vast range of disciplines, all of which, in one way or another, are trying to describe the cultures of the United States. In recent years American studies has also incorporated comparative studies of Canada and Latin America; and indeed a transnational, global perspective on American culture has become one of the leading currents in the field as we begin the twenty-first century. Where, after all, do the borders of America stop, when its influence was, throughout the twentieth century, so pervasive on world cultures?

This month’s featured articles include American Studies in China; American Studies in France; American Studies in Germany

Members of the ASA have access to the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online as a membership benefit. Register here at the Johns Hopkins University Press website for free access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia (current ASA members only). Simply enter the member log in and password that you create or have already created for the JHU website to gain access to the EAS.

If you have questions about your membership or difficulties logging in to AQ or EAS online, please contact the customer service dept of the Johns Hopkins University Press at (410) 516-6987 or 1-800-548-1784, or email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Many of you have a login and password for the JHUP site and are trying to use those here at the ASA website (or vice versa).  To do so, you must create the same login/password at both sites.

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Since 1995, the American Studies Crossroads Project has provided a comprehensive and integrated platform for pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies community.

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There is a new link above—“Past and Present Panels”—with the five abstracts from this year’s work, as well as the past panels of the Caucus.

Thanks to Phil Nel, Juniper Ellis, Ted Gournelos, and Tracy Wuster for crafting the CFP and organizing the ensuing papers into panels.

Thanks to Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Judith Yaross Lee, Gillian Johns, Amy Ware, and Ted Gournelos for volunteering to Chair the panels.

Thanks also to Lanita, Ted, Phil Charles Martin, and John Lowe for writing the panel abstracts, and to Jen Dickinson for pulling together her panel and submitting.

And especially: thank you to everyone who submitted.  We hope that papers that didn’t fit into panels were submitted individually, and that all the papers and panels are accepted by ASA.

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