The shooting of eight people in Atlanta last week, six of whom were women of Asian descent, was tragic but unfortunately not surprising to the Asian community. In light of the incident, which comes ...

The American Studies M.A. is an interdisciplinary professional development degree in a committed learning community that builds on students’ research interests, accomplishments, experiences, and ...

University faculty are working to create an Asian American Studies certificate program by September 2018. The creation of the program will be the culmination of the work of University students, alumni ...

The African and African American Studies (AAAS) program will become its own department in January, after 50 years of student advocacy. The AAAS program was the first ethnic studies program implemented ...

Georgetown University’s American studies program is celebrating its 50th anniversary with an exhibit in Lauinger Library to recognize the program’s history as the oldest interdisciplinary program in ...

After the 36-hour sit-in, the University pledged to create four to seven new professorships and to increase its library holdings and course offerings in the two areas of study. Thirteen years later, ...

The Asian American Studies Program is housed in the McNeil Building. Credit: Maria Murad After the Asian American Studies Program recently doubled in size, program directors and new faculty hires ...

The Mellema Program in Western American Studies was endowed by Dirk and JoAnn Mellema in 1993. Calvin University hired William Katerberg as its director in 1999. The program is housed in the ...

Stephen Silva Brave poses for a portrait with his notebook at Turner Park in Grand Prairie, Texas, on May 9, 2022. Silva Brave, who is Sicangu Lakota, was part of a group that helped write the state's ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...