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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.
2023 Annual Meeting
Solidarity: What Love Looks Like in Public
November 2-5 // Montreal, Quebec
Our annual meeting’s location in Montreal presents the perfect opportunity to put some pressure on the meaning of solidarity across a number of communities, modes of engagement, and national boundaries. We invite our colleagues in Canada and the Americas, writ large, as well as those beyond to join us as we think through these engagements. We want to actively participate in building a practice (of love, of solidarity, of justice) in the space of contestation and radical difference.
Resources from the 2021 Annual Meeting // Held virtually
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
August 30, 2022
CFP: ASA-JAAS Japan Residencies for 2023
Posted for ASA-JAAS Committee in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
August 3, 2022
Call for Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award Nominations
Posted for Minority Scholars' Committee in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
July 26, 2022
2022 Critical Ethnic Studies Prize Nominations Open
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
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American Quarterly
December 2022
Volume 74, Number 4
The first two essays in the December explore contested meaning-makings about land, time, colonialism, race, freedom, and self-determination. The following three essays analyze literature, performance, and photographs to examine the role of poetic, aesthetic, and affective modes of racialization and anticolonial resistance. The final two essays approach contemporary colonialism in the Pacific through analyses of the contestations of commemorative practices and nuclearization of the oceanscape.
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