It’s a perennial question when everyone returns to the UA campus each fall: What did you do during the summer? For AMS major Kathryn Haynes, her primary focus this summer
Dr. Morgan joins panel for Thorton Dial exhibit
Professor Morgan recently joined artists Lonnie Holley and Richard Dial and curator-scholar Anne Collins Smith as part of an opening panel discussion for the exhibition Thornton Dial: I, Too, Am
New Book Announcement
Dr. Mairin Odle’s book, Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, Nov. 2022) looks at body modifications as signs
New Book Announcement
Dr. Jolene Hubbs is the author of Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature (Cambridge University Press, Jan. 2023), which explores how poor whites represented the anxieties of middle-class Americans and influenced
Congratulations to Professor Morgan and Yvonne Wells
Professor Stacy Morgan and Yvonne Wells were recently awarded the 2021 Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize for their forthcoming book Folk Art with a Difference: The Story Quilts
The Department of American Studies congratulates alum Jeff Jones (M.A. 2020) on two significant recent awards.
UA’s Capstone Alliance and the LGBTQ Alumni Association have awarded Jeff the Elliot Jackson Jones Memorial Endowed Scholarship, which recognizes a UA student, at any level, who has demonstrated outstanding
Dr. Eric Weisbard Receives President’s Faculty Research Award
Dr. Weisbard was selected for a President’s Faculty Research Award in the Senior Scholar category for the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of the award-winning Top 40 Democracy:
The Department of American Studies is proud to recognize the winners of its latest round of scholarship awards
These awards also were included in the College of Arts & Sciences’ recent Honors Day event on April 8. Lucy Barrow of Gulf Breeze, Florida is this year’s recipient of
Dr. Mairin Odle Earns Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor
Our hearty congratulations to Dr. Odle, who earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. She came to the American Studies Department in 2015 and specializes in Native American Studies. She
Dr. Jeffrey Melton contributed essay to The Center of Mark Twain Studies
Dr. Jeffrey Melton, Professor of American Studies, contributed a short essay on Mark Twain’s experiences in Athens, Greece, to The Center of Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College (NY), which