Understanding “American culture” as the interplay of material practices and the realm of ideas
The Undergraduate degree program in American Studies considers technology, economy, urbanism, and ecology, as well as literature, the arts, and political and geographic history. American Studies takes a particular interest in cultural hybridity, cultural layering, and in American culture exported abroad.
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American Studies Major Brittany Postle Wins 2024 Haas Scholarship
Mar 27 2024Brittany is a junior with a concentration in Disability and Human Rights in America. Her Haas project is called "William O. Douglas and Fight for Pristine Wilderness in a Damaged World: How Ableism in the ...
American Studies Major Cat Stoehr Wins 2024 Haas Scholarship
Mar 27 2024Cat is researching the history of strikes and unionization drives among American ballet companies from the 1930s to the present.
Emma Gerson, American Studies graduate (class of 2023), has won the 2023 American Cultures Student Prize!
Mar 20 2024American Studies is proud to announce that Emma Gerson, a graduate of our program (class of 2023), has won the 2023 American Cultures Student Prize! This prize recognizes exemplary student projects developed in American Cultures courses "that promotes ...
We are proud to announce that Sarah Gold McBride has won the 2023 American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award!
Mar 19 2024This coveted prize recognizes "inspiring and sustained commitment" to address the "multivocality of America’s diverse social fabric; the scales of geographic assemblage that support political and economic ways of being; the often contested nature of ...
Spotlight on American Studies Graduates
Isis Dillard
Isis Dillard : - "Just Say No!": The War on Drugs in the Reagan Era and the Privilege of Choice (Class of 2015)
Everardo Mora
Everardo Mora : - "Life behind the 'Shield:' Cannery Culture and the 'Farandula' at Del Monte Plant 3" (Class of 2009)
Allison Ivey
Allison Ivey : - The Children of California Shall Be Our Children: The Life of Leland Stanford, Junior and the Birth of Silicon Valley (Class of 2017)
