American Studies Undergraduate Program

American Studies Graduate Program
American Studies Undergraduate Program
- B.A.
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- Minor
- Latino/a Studies Minor
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- Certificate - Race & Ethnicity
- Social Justice U.S. Minor

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Co-Sponsored Events

A lecture by, Cristina Rivera Garza

The Autobiography of Cotton: Documentary Writing and Crónicas from the Border

Monday, April 17, 2017 @ 4:30 PM

Forum and Flex Space, Marvin Hall

Center for Migration Research Lecture Series

Sujey Vega, Women & Gender Studies, Arizona State University
Bypassing Borders: How Latinos Assert Belonging and Practice Home in the Heartland
February 7th, 2017 @ 12:00 PM
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union

Marta Caminero-Santangelo, Department of English Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Stories of the Undocumented: Cultural Trauma and American DREAMers
February 21, 2017 @ 7:00 PM
The Commons
Reception begins at 6:30 p.m.

Announcements

Please read this article about professor Robert Warrior titled: Native scholar uncomfortably at home in American studies field.
Congratulations to Daniel Carey-Whalen, an alumni that was recently promoted as UTEP's Centennial Museum director.
We invite you to attend "Black Love: A Symposium", a week-long interdisciplinary conference all about black love. Click here for more information.
Congratulations to Josh Parshall, an alumni who was recently featured in this article.
Congratulations to Christopher Perreira for receiving the National Academies Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center for 2017-2018.
Congratulations to Ph.D. student William Adams for receiving the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) Summer Short-term Fellowship.
How a motion-tracking musical software is breaking down barriers for people with disabilities: click here to read more about the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI), a one-of-a-kind piece of inclusive technology that promotes musical improvisation. The article recognizes Sherrie Tucker, who started AUMI jam sessions and helped to bring the grant and symposium for it to Lawrence. Written by Omar Sanchez.
View the 3/13 Lawrence 497 Board of Education Meeting here. Ruben Flores speaks from 28:00-38:00 and John Rury speaks from 54:00-59:00.
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Hannah Bailey for being awarded the 2017 Graduate Studies Summer Scholarship.
Ph.D. candidate, Rachel Schwaller, has been awarded the Hall Center's Sias Fellowship for Spring 2018. Congratulations, Rachel!
KU Special Education Department: With Ray Pence
Tribute Or Tribulation? How do we commemorate history? What is the best way to remember a conflicted and painful past? And who gets to decide? Listen here »
Congratulations to Ph.D. student Marilyn Ortega for being selected as one of the inaugural National Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Fellows for 2017.
Congratulations to Kathryn Vaggalis who received the Center for Migration Research Graduate Student Grant.
Ph.D. student Gamze Kati was one of the winners of the second annual IEHS graduate student blog competition this year. Congratulations, Gamze!