Congratulations to Dr. Innis-Jimenez, who has been elected to the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for a three-year term (2023-2026).
John Agricola, Undergraduate Alum, Edits Southern Culture on the Fly (SCOF) Magazine
John Agricola, an AMS undergraduate alum, edited the latest edition of Southern Culture on the Fly (SCOF), a magazine focused on fly fishing, which includes three stories of his own:
Dr. Hubbs’s book just out from Cambridge University Press
Dr. Hubbs’s book, Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature, was published on December 15, 2022 by Cambridge University Press. Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series, the book
AMS major Kathryn Haynes releases debut EP
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: