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New Initiative for Minority-Serving Institutions
The ASA announces a new initiative, offering institutional membership to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build cross-institutional collaboration and support.
About the ASA
We Are
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.
2019 Annual Meeting
Build As We Fight
November 7-10 // Honolulu, Hawai'i
The 2019 theme questions how interdisciplinary, intersectional analyses can help to dissect our historical moment and envision alternative futures. We seek to build from and think with the “Resistance” movements that have arisen in response to authoritarianism, genocide, dispossession, and extractive capitalism. We encourage proposals that advance expansive platforms for transformative change and modeled practices that prefigure more just relationships. Drawing inspiration from Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, we ask how situated ways of knowing and doing can enhance our scholarly research, practice, and accountability to multiple publics.
Panorama from Round Top Lookout by Daniel Ramirez (with overlay) is licensed under CC by 2.0
Resources from the 2018 Annual Meeting // Atlanta, Georgia
ASA Announcements
Featured ASA Community
Early American Matters Caucus
Since the mid-1990s, the Early American Matters Caucus has been addressing pre-1900 American studies topics, broadly understood. We’re a collegial, friendly group, and we do our best both to cultivate a sense of community among pre-1900 Americanists and to bridge early...
Community Announcements
October 7, 2019
CFP: Queer Futurities: Utopias, Dystopias and Disruptive Transnationalisms
Posted for ASA-JAAS Committee, International Committee in Opportunities
June 4, 2019
The Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies
Posted for International Committee, ASA Office in Press Releases
January 16, 2019
Changing of the Guard: New Co-Coordinators of the Early American Matters Caucus
Posted for Early American Matters Caucus in Community Updates
ASA Calendar
American Quarterly
September 2019
Volume 71, Number 3
Origins of Biopolitics in the Americas
Editors Greta LaFleur and Kyla Schuller
This Special Issue of American Quarterly focuses on life within slavery, racial capitalism, and settler colonialism in the region of what is now North America. It critically engages the history of the biopolitical in the period before 1900 and reframes early American studies toward a new appreciation of the history of tactics of governance in this region.
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