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AMS Grad Student Giang Nguyen-Dien featured in latest issue of Women, Gender, Families of Color
Check out the latest issue of Women, Gender, Families of Color that features KU AMS graduate student Giang Nguyen-Dien and her experience as a graduate student of color at the University of Kansas. Giang’s research traces the process of community building and identity formation of Vietnamese Americans in the Midwest. ...
Congratulations Dr. Cervantes!
AUMI Jam Songs Featured in Kaw Valley Film Festival (Opens in new window)
Scholars from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco, México Visit American Studies and KU
MARCH 26TH 5PM
"This sophisticated hell of murder and misery": My Grandfather's Journey from National Socialist Camps to Postwar Ostracism and Oblivion...
AUMI Book Celebration on February 8!!!!!!
We are delighted to share that a big collaborative book that Ray Mizumura-Pence and Sherrie Tucker worked on as members of the Editorial Collective and as authors, . Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument , has been released by University of Michigan Press. The Open...
Randal Jelks, “We Want an America That Will Be Ours”: Langston Hughes’s Dream of Democracy (Tuttle Lecture)
“We Want an America That Will Be Ours”: Langston Hughes’s Dream of Democracy Randal Jelks, Professor, Indiana University THU FEB 1, 4:00 PM Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Memorial Union "We Want an America That Will Be Ours" is a fiery line from a 1935 speech given by Langston Hughes titled "To...
Listen to the AUMI Jam Songs from our last Jam Session
Kansas Union https://on.soundcloud.com/TUi43...
Fire Through Dry Grass-POV (Opens in new window)
About: Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren’t typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they...
Lowriders
Car Art: How Lowriders teach us about Chicanx and Mexican-American History. ...
AUMI Jam Sept 27, Oct 18, Nov 15
What is AUMI? The Adaptive Use Musical Instruments app enables you to play sounds and musical phrases through movement and gestures. We focus on improv techniques using the synth-like technology, rather than traditional musical phrasing and notes. the more you move, the more music you can make! ...
Congratulations to our Majors and Double Majors who are Graduating
We are proud of graduates and all of the hard work they have done. We are graduating the following people with an American Studies major. Some have a double major! ...
Congratulations to our American Studies Minors
American Studies has had the opportunity to host the following American Studies minors in their academic careers:...
American Studies is Graduating 7 Graduate Students this Semester!
Congratulations to:...
Congratulations American Studies Social Justice Minors
Allison Roseberg, Social Justice Minor...
AMS Alum Spotlight: Gretchen Cassel Eick, Ph.D
Gretchen Cassel Eick, Ph.D. American Studies 1998, won Prose Writer of 2021 and her double biography and history, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story, University of Nevada Press, 2020, won the J. Donald and Bertha Coffin Memorial Book Award from the Kansas Authors Club at its 2021 convention. ...
Rebekah Jo Aycock and Nguyen-Dien each awarded a 2021 Summer Research Scholarship
Congratulations to Rebekah Jo Aycock and Nguyen-Dien on each being awarded a 2021 Summer Research Scholarship through KU Graduate Studies. The award provides funding to assist graduate students with conducting their thesis and dissertation research projects during the summer session. ...
Bobby Cervantes awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Congratulations to American Studies' graduate student, Bobby Cervantes on being awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for his dissertation Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas. This award supports PhD candidates in their final year of dissertation writing, with their research and university studies. ...
Music & Social Justice Quaran/zine: Edition 1.2
Check out the latest edition of AUMI-KU InterArts' publication: "Music & Social Justice Quaran/zine"...
Ray Pence featured in "Lewis Nkosi: The Black Psychiatrist | Flying Home: Texts, Perspectives, Homage"
Congratulations to KU American Studies' Ray Pence on being featured in a chapter of "Lewis Nkosi: The Black Psychiatrist | Flying Home: Texts, Perspectives, Homage," Astrid Starck-Adler, Dag Henrichsen (eds.). ...
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Elizabeth Wilhelm
Up next in our graduate student spotlights we have Elizabeth Wilhelm! Elizabeth is a 6th year student studying prison policy development within the National Prison Association 1870-1925 using digital text analysis to interrogate how historical discourses shape current logics of the prison system . Scroll through to learn more about...
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Bobby Cervantes
Up next in our AMS Graduate Student Spotlights we have Bobby Cervantes! Bobby is a 4th year student researching US poverty and its transnational contexts. Scroll through to learn more about Bobby and their work. ...
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Neill Kennedy
Day four of Graduate Student Appreciation Week! Today we have Neill Kennedy! Neill is a 4th year student researching the intersections of race, space and place, immigration, settle colonialism, and racial capitalism. Scroll through to learn more about Neill and their work. ...
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Rebekah Aycock
Our next AMS Graduate Student Spotlight is Rebekah Aycock! Rebekah is a 3rd-year PhD candidate researching the representations of burglary after the Civil War. Scroll through to learn more about Rebekah and their work. ...
Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Hannah Bailey
Our next AMS Graduate Student Spotlight is Hannah Bailey! Hannah is a 7th-year student researching liberal personhood in Kansas. Scroll through to learn more about Hannah and their work. ...