Resolutions and statements have been issued by the American Studies Association for nearly two decades.

While resolutions and statements may be read separately, taken altogether they convey the association's sustained commitment to the critical importance of dissent. The intensive debates attending the association's 2013 consideration and ultimate endorsement of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions exemplifies the ASA's commitment to fostering intellectual freedom through rigorous and open critical consideration among its members, as well as our attention to the entangled pasts and futures of the United States in the world. 
 

Resolutions and Statements 

• Resolution on Defending Academic Freedom Against Attacks on “Critical Race Theory” (2022)
• ASA resolution calling for a decolonizing peace and a formal end to the Korean War (2021), with press release
• Statement of Support and Solidarity: CAUT Censure of University of Toronto (2021)
• Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History (2021)
• Statement of Continued Responsibility of American Studies to Palestine (2021)
• Council Endorses MLA Statement on COVID-19 and Academic Labor (2020)
• Council Endorses the American Sociological Association's Statement Regarding Faculty Review and Reappointment Processes During the COVID-19 Crisis (2020)
• Joint Statement (with MESA) on Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Investigations into NYU and UCLA (2020)
• Letter of Support of Professor Lorgia García-Peña (2020)
• Statement of Support with the (UK) University and College Union (2019)
• Statement on Confronting White Nationalism (2019)
• Statement on Penguin Classic's publication of No Boy without commitment to the Okada Estate (2019)
• Letter Regarding Yale's Ethnicity, Race and Migration Program (2019)
• Statement in Support of the Kia'i of Mauna Kea (2019)
• Letter to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, in defense of Angela Davis (2019)
• Statement on White Supremacist Violence in Pittsburgh (2018)
• Statement on the Responsibility of American Studies to Palestine (2018)
• Statement on Proposed Change to Federal Tax Code (2017)
• Statement for Puerto Rico (2017)
• Statement on White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville (2017)
• Statement on Religious Bigotry (2017)
• Post-Election Statment (2017)
• Statement in Support of the Sanctuary Campus Movement (2016)
• Statement in Support of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation (2016)
• Statement on Academic Freedom in Turkey (2016)
• Statement on North Carolina HB2 (2016)
• Letter of Concern About Proposed Cuts to the College of Ethnic Studies (2016)
• Statement of Concern About Censorship of Educational Material (2016)
• Statement on Campus Carry Legislation (2016)
• Calls for Racial Justice, Strengthened Solidarity (2015)
• ASA Executive Committee Demand-Washington Redskins (2015)
• ASA Executive Committee Condemns "Religious Freedom Restoration" Acts (2015)
• ASA Executive Committee Condemns UAE's Travel Ban on Researchers (2015)
• Resolution on the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions (2013)
• Statement on the Importance of Language Study (2011) 
• Statement on Free Speech and Student Protests (2011)
• Statement on Intellectual Freedom in a Time of Economic Crisis (2011) 
• Statement on Political Dissent in a Time of Economic Crisis (2011) 
• Resolution on the Iraq War (2006) 
• Resolution on Graduate Student Rights (2005) 
• Statement on Standards in Graduate Education (2005) 
• Resolution on Academic Freedom in the Americas (2005)
• Statement on Intellectual Freedom in a Time of War (2002) 
• Resolution in Support of Graduate Student Unions  (1999)  
   

Actions

In addition to resolutions, the ASA engages in actions that address matters of public importance through changes to the association's operations, policies, initiatives, or partnerships.