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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
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
January 11, 2019
CFP: Critical Disability Studies Caucus Professionalization Workshop (2019)
Posted for Critical Disability Studies Caucus in Annual Meeting
January 11, 2019
CFP: Critical Disability Studies Caucus Sponsored Panel (2019)
Posted for Critical Disability Studies Caucus in Annual Meeting
ASA Calendar
March 14, 2019 to March 16, 2019
Posted by Southeastern American Studies Association in Conference
April 12, 2019 to April 13, 2019
Posted by California American Studies Association, American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers , Regional Chapters in Conference
American Quarterly
December 2018
Volume 70, Number 4
The first three essays in this issue address interconnected themes of settler colonialism, race, migration, and capitalism, with particular attention to place, space, and the environment. We are also excited to present a forum, “On Sylvia Wynter and the Urgency of Humanist Revolution in the Twenty-First Century,” which reflects on the significance of Wynter’s critical thought to American studies, academe, and the world at large.
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