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Researchers, teachers, students, writers, activists, curators, community organizers, and activists from around the world who are dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history in a global context.
We Do
Many things that connect us to each other. We publish American Quarterly; organize an annual international meeting and regional events; provide resources; and collaborate with museums, public institutions, and communities.
We Value
Original research, teaching, critical thinking, public discussion, and dissent. We share a commitment to viewing U.S. history and culture from multiple perspectives and taking a stand on issues of importance and broad consensus.
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Participation in the ASA gives you access to a vibrant scholarly community—at and beyond the annual meeting. You’ll find abundant opportunities for professional advancement, intellectual engagement, and personal development.
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.
Resources from the 2021 Annual Meeting // Held virtually
ASA Announcements
9/28
Featured ASA Community
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.
Community Announcements
December 1, 2021
Critical Ethnic Studies Prize (2021)
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies, ASA Office in Press Releases
November 15, 2021
Kolodny Prize call for submissions
Posted for Environment and Culture in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
November 8, 2021
British Association for American Studies - conference April 2022
Posted for International Committee in Opportunities
ASA Calendar
January 13, 2022
Educators' Alliance Virtual Business Meeting
Posted by Educators' Alliance in Business Meeting
March 3, 2022 to March 5, 2022
SASA 2022: Resistance and (Re)Generation
Posted by Southeastern American Studies Association in Conference
American Quarterly
September 2021
Volume 73, Number 3
Language, Multilingualism, and Translation in American Studies
Editors Vicente L. Rafael and Mary Louise Pratt
This special issue examines the workings of language—often violent but also ingenious and transgressive—and its intersections with settler colonialism and Indigeneity, race and empire, migration and diaspora.
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