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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.

The Education of Barack Obama: Race and Politics in the Age of Fracture. October 10, 2013, delivered by Professor Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania.

The Spring 2013 inaugural issue of Women, Gender, and Families of Color has been released.  The issue is a collection of articles t

Chicago, IL. The Leather Archives & Museum (LA&M) announced today that Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone (Ph.D.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

THE FIERY TRIAL: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND AMERICAN SLAVERY by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University