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Register and Attend 2020 Annual Meeting Freedom Courses
Freedom Courses scheduled for November 12-15 will bring ASA members together around urgent topics related to unfolding crises. From "COVID-19, Abolition, Disability Justice" to "Cops Off Campus: A Teach-In on Anti-Blackness, the University, and Policing," these courses aim to sustain our intellectual community during difficult times.
About the ASA
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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.
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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.
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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.
2021 Annual Meeting
Creativity within Revolt
October 7-10 // San Juan, Puerto Rico
In the current moment, people are drawing from multiple legacies of rebellion, protest, survival, and revolution to confront forms of dehumanization and ecological degradation that are foundational to the making of “America.” What might it mean to apprehend and respond to the creative acts of people in revolt? How might creativity enable other ways of envisioning and making sociality, community, bodily and spiritual integrity, and radical futurity?
Arriving to San Juan, Puerto Rico by Francisco Jose Carrera Campos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Resources from the 2019 Annual Meeting // Honolulu, Hawai‘i
ASA Announcements
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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.
Community Announcements
October 26, 2020
2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Award Winner
Posted for International Committee in Press Releases
October 16, 2020
Palestine Writes Festival Features Leaders in World Culture and Politics
Posted for Caucus on Academic and Community Activism in Other
ASA Calendar
May 15, 2021
Deadline: Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty
Posted by Gender and Sexuality Studies in Deadline
May 15, 2021
Deadline: Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award
Posted by Minority Scholars' Committee in Deadline
American Quarterly
December 2020
Volume 72, Number 4
This issue includes five essays that address globalism and American expansionism, Black social movement and the arts, logistics of empire, and technologies of settler colonialism, followed by an extensive review section that includes three event reviews, a digital projects review, and three book reviews that cover diverse scholarship on various themes.
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