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Ph.D. candidate Hannah Bailey awarded the 2017 Graduate Studies Summer Scholarship
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Hannah Bailey for being awarded the 2017 Graduate Studies Summer Scholarship. ...
Ph.D. candidate Rachel Schwaller awarded the Hall Center's Sias Fellowship for Spring 2018
Ph.D. candidate, Rachel Schwaller, has been awarded the Hall Center's Sias Fellowship for Spring 2018. This award grants a stipend and office space at the Hall Center for Rachel to focus on her writing. Congratulations, Rachel! ...
Marilyn Ortega, Ph.D selected as National Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Fellow
Congratulations to Marilyn Ortega, Ph.D. student in American Studies, for being selected as one of the inaugural National Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Fellows for 2017. Check it out here. ...
Tuttle Lecture 2017
As a distinguished teacher, mentor, and scholar, Professor Emeritus Bill Tuttle guided generations of KU students. Bill taught in American studies, history, and African and African-American studies, offering the first courses at KU in African American history and post-World War II American history. His teaching awards include the W. T. ...
NEA awards grant to KU American Studies to help physically disabled play music
An NEA grant has been awarded to KU to help the physically disabled play music. A group of University of Kansas professors has received a $35,000 grant to put on a symposium all about AUMI, the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument. KU announced the grant, from the National Endowment for the...
ASA Presidential Address by Dr. Robert Warrior (Opens in new window)
Robert Warrior's presidential address, "Home/not Home: Centering American Studies Where we Are," delivered at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver, Colorado. ...
PhD candidate Kathryn Vaggalis receives Center for Migration Research Graduate Student Grant
In September 2016, PhD candidate Kathryn Vaggalis received the Center for Migration Research Graduate Student Grant, a $500 award designated for students performing migration-related research. The grant supports students in the Center's mission to promote, coordinate, and facilitate innovative high-quality interdisciplinary research on how human migration both shapes and is...
Ben Chappell to speak at the Kansas City Museum on Mexican American softball tournaments
Ben Chappell will be speaking at the Kansas City Museum this week, discussing his research at Mexican American softball tournaments. It should be an interesting event, somewhere between an academic conference, an old-timer’s game, and Antiques Roadshow. The initiative is aimed at developing the collection of the National Museum of...
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?
In Sedalia, Missouri, Marge Harlan spent $25,000 of her own money to build a "slave cabin." While she meant the cabin to honor the courage and resilience of African-Americans, many in the community, especially people of color, have found the gesture problematic and offensive. ...
CLAS names 1st associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion
A new associate dean at the University of Kansas will oversee diversity, equity and inclusion programming and policies for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. ...
Editors of the American Studies Journal, Randal Jelks and Sherrie Tucker show issue of the AMS Journal to Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska
Editors of the American Studies Journal, Randal Jelks and Sherrie Tucker enjoy showing the summer reading issue of the AMS Journal to Jeannette Jones, University of Nebraska, at the Mid America ASA reception in Toronto. ...
Tuttle Lecture 2015
Native American interrelated and comparative histories (especially 19th century); Black, Native, and U.S. women's histories; and African American and Native American women's literature. Her most recent book, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, was published by the the University of North Carolina Press in 2010. She also...
Ray Pence interviews: “Celebrating Opportunity for People with Disabilities: 70 Years of Dole Leadership.”
Congratulations to Ray Pence for his significant contributions to the celebration of upcoming events and exhibit recognizing the American Disabilities Act 25th anniversary. Events are hosted by The Dole Institute of Politics (see article), opening July 26th. You can listen to Ray's interview (see below) for more details. ...
Ruben Flores and Ray Pence awarded Society for US Intellectual History 's Best Book of 2014 and runner up recognition, respectively.
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the results of the deliberation of this year’s Annual Book Award Committee. The committee, composed of Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin; Robert Westbrook, University of Rochester; and Howard Brick, University of Michigan (chair), awarded this year’s prize for best book...
American Studies Proudly Welcomes David Roediger, KU Foundation Professor and Elizabeth Esch, Assistant Professor to the Department of American Studies and the KU Campus.
David Roediger has joined the Departments of American Studies and History as KU’s first Foundation Professor. He comes to KU from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an internationally recognized and award-winning historian. His groundbreaking scholarship and teaching focus race, ethnicity, working class and labor in the...
Tuttle Lecture 2013
October 10, 2013, delivered by Professor Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania. ...
Spring 2013 Inaugural Issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color
The Spring 2013 inaugural issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color has been released. The issue is a collection of articles that primarily explore various elements of health for Latinas and African American women. Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a ground-breaking scholarly journal recently launched by...
Leather Archives & Museum announces 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar.
Chicago, IL. The Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) announced today that Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone (Ph.D. University of Kansas) has been selected as its 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar. Clifford-Napoleone will use the LA&M collections during September of this year in support of her "Hell Bent for Metal: A Study of Queer...
Abandoned In The Heartland
Jennifer F. Hamer received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas-Austin and is an Associate Professor in the African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her general area of study is the sociological study of families, especially those within the United States. Within this broad field, her...
Writing Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru
In the spring of 2000, I took an anthropology course on culture and power in Latin America with Marisol de la Cadena, who writes on indigenousness in Peru. In that class, I planned to write a seminar paper on the idea of race in Brazil. When I went to the...
Spotlight: Marisol Cortez
Last fall was my first semester as a visiting faculty member in the American Studies Department, so the past few months have been full of new and exciting challenges. Thanks to the warm welcome I have received from AMS faculty and the broader KU community, it has been a good...
Graduate Research Assistantships Help Students Receive PhDs
In the Fall of 2010, the Office of Research and Graduate Studies worked with the American Studies Department to launch a project aimed at improving graduate student's time-to-degree. The fellowship offered Graduate Research (GRA) positions to allow graduate students who were ABD and making timely progress toward the PhD one...
New Cities and Boomer Futures
In conjunction with courses in architecture and civic leadership, this studio-based colloquium, led by Professors Dennis Domer and Cheryl Lester, brings together experts from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, law, architecture, environmental studies, and planning, to present and lead discussions on interdisciplinary research theory and methods within the context...
The Native Scholar Who Wasn't
The Native Scholar Who Wasn't: a prominent academic who was exposed faking her Cherokee ancestry. ...
Congratulations to our PhD Graduates!
American Studies is graduating seven graduate students this spring! ...