This news story originally appeared in UC Berkeley News, September 11, 2024 Twenty-three years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, UC Berkeley Professor Michael Mark Cohen is teaching a course that examines how disastrous its consequences have been for the U.S. “I think students finally understand why the country lost its
American Studies major Brandon Fellows (’24) was recently featured in “Community college program helps formerly incarcerated students find opportunity,” in the Sacramento Bee. Here is an excerpt from the article: If you ask Brandon Fellows where he learned the most in his life, he’ll point to his time spent on the
Oddyard, an interdisciplinary student journal, has published its third issue, “Third Places,” with support from the Interdisciplinary Program in American Studies. Founded by undergraduate students in several disciplines and schools on campus, Oddyard focuses on the interaction between art and the city. “Third Places” examines the titular concept, coined by
The UGIS Commencement ceremony on May 14, 7-9pm, at Zellerbach Hall, will be live streamed with captioning at the link below. And on Thursday, May 16, a recorded video of the ceremony will be available for viewing at the same link. CONGRATULATIONS, CLASS OF 2024!
Brittany 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 Supreme Court Shaped Our Ideas of Nature,” and her research questions are (to quote her
Cat is researching the history of strikes and unionization drives among American ballet companies from the 1930s to the present.
American 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 understanding of U.S. race, ethnicity, and culture and exemplifies a standard of excellence in scholarship.”
This 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 the political nation; the intersectional vectors that operate through everyday life.” It rewards “great creativity,
9:30 AM Coffee and Informal Welcome 10:00 Steven Lee (English) / “Cold War Subcultures: Viktor Tsoi and William Gibson’s Cyberpunk International” 10:40 Christian Paiz (Ethnic Studies) / “Walking with the comrades: a five year public history project on the UFW Movement” 11:20 Louise Mozingo (Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning) /
Please join the American Studies community for our annual celebration of the fantastic research and writing conducted by UC Berkeley’s American Studies majors this year! The 2nd Annual American Studies Senior Thesis Showcase will feature short presentations from 11 senior thesis students and an afternoon Q&A roundtable with presenters, who