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AMS Graduate Student Appreciation Week: William Garcia- Medina
Happy Graduate Student Appreciation Week! ...
Cubatón's Transnational Creolizations
Check out KU American Studies Doctoral Candidate William Garcia-Medina M.A.'s work: "Cubatón's Transnational Creolizations". It was published in "Scattered Musics" from the University Press of Mississippi. ...
Lethal State: An Interview With Seth Kotch
Check out KU American Studies Ph.D. student Rebekah Aycock’s interview with @UNCAMST professor Seth Kotch on the history of the death penalty in North Carolina. ...
Sandy’s "Black Looks": Countertemporal Postures and the Reclamation of Time with Dr. Ersula J. Ore.
The John F. Eberhardt Lecture and KU English Department presents, “Sandy’s ‘Black Looks’: Countertemporal Postures and the Reclamation of Time” with Dr. Ersula J. Ore. Join us April 13, 2021 4pm-5pm. ...
MMRC & KU MARC Lunch Lecture Town Hall and Virtual Spring Conference
The Midwest Music Research Collective (MMRC) is a student organization which aims to foster a platform for graduate students of all disciplines to share their musical research, experiences and performances. Since 2018, we have successfully hosted several conferences, a call for scores, guest lectures, and lecture recitals. ...
How State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements
KU American Studies' Nishani Frazier on how State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements in Black Perspectives. Check out the article Here. ...
American Studies' Nikki Brown explores civic engagement in the Latinx community
Nikki Brown discovered her passion for politics, cross-cultural sociology, and pop culture through an American Identities class during her freshman year. Now a junior in the McNair Scholars program, she’s conducting interdisciplinary research on Latinx voting and political attitudes in the 2020 election. And in her roles as a University...
The Arts In The Black Press During The Age of Jim Crow
Join a diverse group of scholars (Tuesday, March 16th @ 5pm CST/ 6pm EST) to discuss the journal's recent special issue, "The Arts in the Black Press During the Age of Jim Crow” American Studies co-editor Randal M. Jelks (@universityofkansas) will host a conversation with issue guest editors Lucy Caplan...
AMS doctoral student, Imani Wadud, to be featured in conversation with artist, Favianna Rodriguez, as part of KU spring program series
COLLABORATIVE SERIES SHINES LIGHT ON MANY VOICES ADDRESSING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS...
KU American Studies a Co-Sponsor of 2021 MKC Events
Hang Le-Tormala's book about American and Vietnamese citizens' postwar quest for peace
When Experts Attack! #21: “Gun owners don’t really want to use their guns”
Listen to Margaret Kelley discuss it's not just fear of violence or belief in the second amendment and gun rights prompting gun ownership. On this episode of WhenExpertsAttack she explains that concerns about Armageddon and "supernatural" evil also are at play. Read the full article here. ...
Bobby Cervantes awarded the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies
Congratulations to Bobby Cervantes for being awarded the Harry Middleton Fellowship in Presidential Studies! Read more here. ...
Eric Velasquez: An Afro-Puerto Rican Illustrator of Our Times
Read about Afro-Puerto Rican illustrator Eric Velasquez in this piece written by William García-Medina for Teaching For Change. Read the full piece here. ...
Dr. Alex Stucky successfully defends his dissertation
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Stucky for successfully defending his dissertation on December 12, 2019! ...
Geoffrey Newman on the the black freedom struggle and vanished memory
Listen to Geoffrey Newman speak on the the Black freedom struggle and vanished memory in his appearance on the Kansas History Podcast, episode 4: Forgetting Strength. It is available online here. ...
Waggoner Research Colloquium
Chris Perreira is one of the featured speakers at this year’s Waggoner Research Colloquium on November 4, 4:30-7:00, an annual event organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies that spotlights the excellent work of our faculty. This year’s theme is Building Strong Latinx and Latin...
The Bill Tuttle Distinguished Lecture in American Studies 2019
2019 Tuttle Lecture: Professor Kevin Willmott...
Dr. Ora McWilliams successfully defends his dissertation
Congratulations to Dr. Ora McWilliams for successfully defending his dissertation on May 10, 2019! ...
American studies' Sam Steuart named KU's 20th Truman scholar
Congratulations to Sam Steuart for being named KU's 20th Truman scholar! Read the full article here. ...
María Elena Cepeda's Talk
The WGSS Department is bringing María Elena Cepeda of Williams College to campus to give a talk on February 12 in the Malott Room at the Union at 5pm. Cepeda is currently Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams and her work is at the juncture of media studies, music,...
Unlikely Captivities: The Narrative of Development in Jenna Miscavige Hill's Ex-Scientology Escape Narrative
Check out this article, written by Ph.D. candidate Hannah Bailey, was published in the latest edition of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Congratulations, Hannah! Read the full article here...
Rachel Schwaller and Saoussen Cheddadi successfully defend their respective dissertations
Rachel Schwaller and Saoussen Cheddadi successfully defended their respective dissertations on October 29, 2018. Congratulations, Drs. Schwaller and Cheddadi! ...
Ph.D. candidate Kathryn Vaggalis awarded the Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Kathryn Vaggalis for being awarded the American Studies Association's 2018 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize! ...
Dr. Gamze Kati Gumus defends her dissertation with honors
Dr. Gamze Kati Gumus defended her dissertation with honors on May 10, 2018. Congratulations, Dr. Kati Gumus! ...
White Latino Privilege: Caribbean Latino Perspectives in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
Congratulations to William Garcia on his collaboration in White Latino Privilege: Caribbean Latino Perspectives in the Second Decade of the 21st Century with Dr. Gabriel Haslip-Viera & others, available for purchase here. ...
Dr. Jonathan Burrow-Branine successfully defends his dissertation with honors
Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Burrow-Branine for successfully defending his dissertation with honors January 25, 2018. ...
Ph.D. student William Adams receives Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Congratulations to Ph.D. student William Adams for receiving the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) Summer Short-term Fellowship. Check it out here. ...