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2022 Annual Meeting

The Roof is on Fire

November 3-6 // New Orleans, Louisiana

The 2022 Annual Meeting invites strategies that draw our attention to and command a multisensory, multiregister engagement with the world as it is and as we want it to be. Something is broken. Whether or not it can be repaired may not be the right question. This is an homage to the cultures and knowledges too often dismissed or taken. Touch the beat, move without instruction, abandon your isolation. We come together to continue the creation of something else altogether.

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2022 Election Results

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American Studies Association Awards Ceremony (2021)

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2/13

Deadline March 1, 2022: Elections & Book Awards

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American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers

The Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments, programs, and centers.

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December 1, 2021

Critical Ethnic Studies Prize (2021)

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November 15, 2021

Kolodny Prize call for submissions

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November 8, 2021

British Association for American Studies - conference April 2022

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June 10, 2022 to June 11, 2022

New England American Studies Association - 2022 Annual Conference - Call for Proposals

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November 3, 2022 to November 6, 2022

2022 Annual Meeting

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American Quarterly

March 2022

Volume 74, Number 1

All seven essays in this issue forcefully interrogate the making of racialized and Native subjects and their resistance in different but interrelated contexts of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, carceral state, and neoliberal service economy.

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Featured ASA Working Papers

The 2014-2015 Working Papers Series provides practitioners in American studies with tools to create, position, and sustain American Studies programs within the current landscape of higher education.

What is American Studies?

George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) examines the genealogy of American studies in tracing the history of the field, from the nascent interdisciplinary inquiries into cultures of the United States during the 1930s to the eclectic array of paradigms in today’s American studies...

Creating Goals and Outcomes for American Studies Programs

Mark Rice (St. John Fisher College) offers guidance on how American Studies programs can craft student learning goals and measureable outcomes that align to an institution’s educational mission and clearly articulate the program’s contributions.

How to Position American Studies as Vital to Your Institution

Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello (Salem State University) and Karen Leong (Arizona State University) present extensive strategies for articulating the value of American studies programs to the missions of their institutions and to broader national and global trends in higher education. 

Some Best Practices for Recruiting Students to American Studies Programs

Rebecca Hill (Kennesaw State University) offers 20 tips on "laying the groundwork" for recruiting students to undergraduate and graduate MA programs, as well as recruiting strong PhD students.

Writing Mission Statements for American Studies Departments and Programs

Matthew Mancini (Saint Louis University) posits topics to assist individuals and departments in developing a mission statement that reflects the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the diversity of American studies, and aligns to the college or university’s mission statement...

The Nature and Meaning of Research in American Studies

Ben Chappell (University of Kansas) explores how the “interdisciplinary rigor of American Studies” fosters diverse research topics and methodological approaches, and notes how researchers in the field share their scholarship within the academy and with the broader public.

Strategies for Programs, Departments, and Centers under the Threat of Budget Cuts

Karen Leong (Arizona State University) and Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) suggest ways that American studies departments can respond to threats of program dismantlement and offer proactive strategies to develop departmental security by illustrating the assets of American studies...

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