In American Studies, we consider the history, politics, and cultures of the Americas from an interdisciplinary perspective. Historically grounded in English and History, the field now incorporates people, ideas, and methods from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our practice is a form of critical citizenship.

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• Visiting Assistant Professor position
• Fall 2013 Course Offerings
• Black Film Center/Archive, Senior Archivist, Brian Graney, procures a National Endowment for the Humanities 2013 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. This grant will support the program, "Representing Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence in Digital Contexts."
  
• Summer 2013 Course Offerings
• Micol Seigel, Lamonda Horton-Stallings, and Sara Friedman are recipients of the College Arts & Humanities Institute Conference Grant.
  
• AMST Advisor, Will Smith, who also advises for PHIL, REL, and the Dhar India Studies program, has been chosen to be this year's College of Arts and Sciences Advisor of the Year.
  
• "Religious Contact Zones" panel for the next American Studies Colloquium Series with presentations by Dana Logan and Steve Selka.
  Wednesday, April 10th, 2:00 p.m., Ballantine Hall 004
• AMST PhD minor student, Sarah Dees, was awarded the Lieber Associate Instructor Award, a university-wide teaching award. She will be honored at the 2013 celebration of distinguished teaching on campus. Ms. Dees also received the 2013-2014 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship and the Won-Joon Yoon Memorial Award.
• Combined PhD student, Holly Schreiber, (AMST/CMLT) was awarded the Lieber Associate Instructor Award, a university-wide teaching award. She will be honored at the 2013 celebration of distinguished teaching on campus. Ms Schreiber has also been awarded the 2013-14 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship.
• Stand-alone PhD student, Jordache Ellapen, has been awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) from the Social Science Research Council for the 2013 fellowship year, under the field of Postcolonial Identities and Decolonial Struggles: Creolization and Colored Cosmopolitanism.
• Friday, March 29, 4:00 p.m.
  University Club, IMU
  Colloquium - Professor Robert Ivie "When Trickster Meets the Devil: Reflections on US War Culture."
  AMST and CMCL will host a colloquium in celebration of Professor Robert Ivie's distinguished career at Indiana University. Reception to follow.
• "Cultivating Sensibilities of Native/American Citizenship" panel for the next American Studies Colloquium Series with presentations by Sarah Dees and Christina Snyder.
  Thursday, March 21st, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m., Walnut Room, IMU
• The February 28, 2013, issue of Inside IU Bloomington features a story on the records of apartheid stored in IU's Black Film Center/Archive. Read the complete piece at http://inside.iub.edu/archive/newsletters/2013-02-28.html
• Friday, February 15, Ethnic Studies Workshop
  Oak Room, IMU
  Professionalization Panel 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
  Keynote Lecture 4:00 p.m.
  Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz
  "The Politics of Practical Grammar: Learning Spanish in the Early Republic."
• Professor Denise Cruz receives a New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities grant for her new research project, "Runways of the Global South".
• Professor Alex Lichtenstein (History Department) has been awarded a Mellon International Research and Teaching Short-Term Faculty Fellowship for his project "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid in South Africa." The fellowship will allow him to curate an exhibit of Margaret Bourke-White's photographs of South Africa in 1950 at museums in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The exhibit will open at IU's Mathers Museum of World Cultures in Fall 2013.
  
• Professor Jason Jackson is named Director of IU's Mathers Museum of World Cultures. Click for details.
  
• Special Forum: "Revolution and Heterotopias" in the Journal of Transnational American Studies 4(2) 2012. Co-editors Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorium
  
• Assistant Professor Marlon Bailey's Feminist Studies essay, "Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the Gender System in Ballroom Culture," is co-winner of the Modern Language Association/GLQ Caucus's Compton-Noll Prize for best article in LGBTQ Studies
  
• Visiting faculty member Aidé Acosta speaks to the Department of International Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa about migration and ethnography http://dcs.uas.edu.mx/index.php?sec=3&op=2&tipo=i&id_noticia=3307
  
• Assistant Professor Denise Cruz's new book: Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina, Duke University Press, 2012
  
• AMST Graduate Student Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 27, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
  Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU
• AMST Undergraduate Open House
  Wednesday, November 7, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
  Georgian Room, IMU
• Brian Graney, Senior Archivist, makes possible BFC/A Grant to Preserve Rainbow Black: Poet Sarah W. Fabio
• October 22 - Comparative Ethnic Studies Symposium
  10:00 a.m. - 3:45 p.m., Frangipani Room, IMU
  Guest Speakers: Eric Tang, Assistant Professor of Africana Disapora & Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin and C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, Assistant Professor of History, Illinois College.
• Job posting for a tenure track assistant professor position in the Department of American Studies
  APPLICATION DEADLINE - October 26, 2012
• Lecture - Bridget Cooks, author of Exhibiting Blackness September 14, 2012, 5:00 p.m.
  Hope School of Fine Arts, room 015
  Book Signing and Reception to follow
  6:00-7:30 p.m., Thomas T. Solley Atrium, IU Art Museum
• The World, the Text, and the Americanist by Professor Brian T. Edwards
  Monday, September 24, 4:00 p.m.
  College Arts and Humanities Institute (CAHI)
  1211 E. Atwater Ave.
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