Congratulations to AMS Associate Professor Michael Innis-Jiménez on the publication of his article, “Mexican Chicago’s Colonia Hull House: Food, Tourism, and Belonging in the 1930s” in the latest edition of Global Food History!
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Please join us for the opening of “Natives and Newcomers: A Hidden History,” an exhibit curated by AMS 470 & 570 in collaboration with UA Libraries Special Collections. The opening reception is on Wednesday, December 6, 2017, from 4:30 to 5:30.
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Congratulations to AMS Professor Michael Innis-Jiménez for being appointed distinguished lecturers of the Organization of American Historians. For more information, see the University of Alabama News Feed and the OAH distinguished lecturer webpage.
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Congratulations to AMS and New College Professor Ellen Spears and AMS graduate Margaret Sasser (MA ’14), on the launching of the online resource for studying the Scottsboro Trials.
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Professor Stacy Morgan will discuss his latest book on Thursday, April 20, 2017, at 5:00pm in ten Hoor room 30. Please join the faculty, staff, and students of the American Studies Department in celebrating this wonderful achievement. Their will be refreshments and a book signing immediately after the talk.
Congratulations to Dr. Mairin Odle for winning the Society of Early Americanists’ Best Essay Prize for 2016.
Congratulations to American studies professor Mairin Odle on the publication of her article in Common-Place: The Journal of Early American Life. The article is titled “‘We Are All Savages’: Scalping and Survival in The Revenant.”
Congratulations to American Studies Professor Stacy Morgan for the upcoming release of his latest book, Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America. The book, published by the University of Texas Press and now available for pre-order, Frankie and Johnny “presents a new argument for the centrality of African American folklore as a source of cultural expression in the 1930s.” “I am extremely impressed by this book. I think it will be a valuable addition to African American […]
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The Department of American Studies congratulates Sylvio Lynch III (MA, 2014) of Richmond, VA for successfully completing his qualifying exams for a Ph.D. in American Studies at Bowling Green State University. We wish him all the best in his dissertation writing!
http://scottsboroboysletters.as.ua.edu/ Just Launched by University of Alabama graduate Margaret Sasser (M.A. in American Studies, 2014) and Dr. Ellen Griffith Spears, associate professor in New College and the Department of American Studies, and the Alabama Digital Humanities Center: “‘To See Justice Done’: Letters from the Scottsboro Trials,” an online scholarly resource for researching social justice and African American history. In 1931, in the Depression Era South, nine young African Americans hopped a train in a Chattanooga freight yard and headed west […]