This coming May, Indiana University undergraduate students and graduate students have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join students from Serbia in a program designed to provide new channels of thinking about how to commemorate historical events and heritage sites.
Professor Rasul Mowatt just finished a four-part series of episodes on his recent book, The Geographies of Threat.
WFIU launches Inner States, a new weekly, hour-long arts and culture magazine. The series will air Sundays at noon on WFIU, beginning January 9, hosted by AMST alum Alex Chambers.
Monday, November 1, 2021
2-4pm
Ballantine Patio
*BH503 Rain location
New Faculty Appointments for Fall 2021 within American Studies department.
Associate Professor Susan Lepselter has been selected as a recipient of the Dr. James E. Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award
On November 13th-16th, the Indiana University’s 2020 Critical Ethnic Studies symposium brought into dialogue two zones of contemporary insurgent study: the undercommons and destituent power.
Micol Seigel produced her second monograph, Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police (Durham: Duke University Press, August 2018).
Vivian Halloran and Phoebe Wolfskill each awarded grants.
American Studies recently appointed several faculty members to new positions.
Caroline “Caro” Oates and Kayla McCarthy, undergraduate majors in American Studies have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, the most prestigious academic honor society in the country. A banquet for all inductees will be held December 5, 6:00-8:30 p.m. in Presidents Hall.
Giselle Cunanan received the Fall 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award and presented her paper, “Linking Liberation to Freedom: Pedagogy and the Promise of ‘critical’ Ethnic Studies,” at the American Studies Association Annual Conference November 2017.
Yari Cruz was chosen as a recipient of the Fall 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award. She will travel to the MLA 2018 Annual Convention in January to present her paper "Transmedia and Telenovelas: Parodying Latinx Melodrama for a Transnational and Hemispheric Audience."
Nzingha Kendall was quoted in the Fall 2017 issue of Imagine that featured an article about the IU Cinema entitled “Screen Savor.”
Alex Chambers and Giselle Cunanan both received dissertation awards.
The College of Arts