Dr. Monica Muñoz Martinez (Brown University) will deliver this year’s Rose Gladney Lecture for Justice and Social Change on October 10, 2018 at 6 p.m. in room 205, Gorgas Library. Martinez is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and cofounder of the nonprofit organization Refusing to Forget. Her book, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, was published in September 2018 by Harvard University Press.
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Our New Department Chair, Dr. Edward Tang
Dr. Tang begins his term as Department Chair this Fall. He has taught at the Capstone for 20 years, from graduate students in the Research Colloquium to the general undergraduate population in AMS 151: World, Nation, Regions. Dr. Tang specializes in the long nineteenth century and the Cold War. He looks forward to helping the Department’s growth in majors and the Master’s program, and faculty members with their research. Feel free to stop by and say “Hello!”
AMS Alum in Documentary on Lynching
Lily Hoyle, a 12-year-old from Mobile, AL, created a short documentary about the 1981 lynching of 19-year-old Michael Donald, “The Lynching That Brought Down the Klan in Alabama.” An AMS alumnus, Derek Barry, now an American Studies teacher at the Alabama School of Math and Science, appears as a guest commentator in the film. https://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/07/alabama_12-year-olds_lynching.html
Dr. Odle on Teaching Writing
Dr. Mairin Odle, our specialist in Native American Studies, talks about how she teaches writing by writing alongside her students and sharing her work with them. Guest Post: Writing Alongside Your Students
Dr. Weisbard appears in Rolling Stone magazine
In Rolling Stone magazine, Dr. Eric Weisbard sheds important light on Top 40 radio and its relationship to rap music. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radio-business-white-rappers-w519513
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AMS Majors Honored at Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony
The American Studies Department congratulates Sarah Asseff, Mollie Gillis, and J.C. Godin, who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the United States, on Friday, May 4.
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AMS Alum Savannah Harper Publishes in The Explicator
The American Studies Department is pleased to congratulate Savannah Harper, whose essay “Greenery as a Symbol of Immigrant Hardship and Vulnerability in Gish Jen’s Typical American” appears in the latest issue of The Explicator, a scholarly journal focused on text-based criticism. Savannah, who earned her AMS degree from UA in 2016, wrote the paper for Dr. Hubbs’s Fictions of American Identity course in fall 2015. You can read Savannah’s essay here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00144940.2018.1430675
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AMS Fall 2018 Courses
Elizabeth Meese Memorial Award in Feminist Theory
Congratulations to Athena F. Richardson, a second-year Masters student and Graduate Teaching Assistant, for winning the Elizabeth Meese Memorial Award in Feminist Theory. The honor came from the 2018 Annual Paper Competition sponsored by the Department of Gender and Race Studies. Athena’s paper is titled “There Is a Balm: Performance, Voyeurism, and Public History through Beyoncé’s Lemonade.” She uses Lemonade to examine the multi-generational experiences of black women in New Orleans tourism history, and the role that public history and tourist […]
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New Article Published by AMS professor Michael Innis-Jiménez
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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