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What We Do
We practice American Studies at UVA as a definitively interdisciplinary pursuit, producing scholarship that is markedly self-reflexive, and producing scholars who are unusually aware of their own positions and assumptions
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Why We Do It
Our vision for the future is an embrace of the productive tensions of the differing traditions of American Studies with a collective commitment to continuing awareness of both intersectionality and institutional history
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How we do it
We contribute to the mission of the University of Virginia by equipping students to be engaged citizens, and by generating new knowledge and understanding of the nation and world that they inherit
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Who We Are
Representing an interdisciplinary and capacious field of study, the Department of American Studies is a foundational pillar, key to the University's goals of recruiting and retaining a talented and diverse faculty of rising leaders in their field who are committed to outstanding research and teaching
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What we are
American Studies at University of Virginia is the center of comparative indigeneity, ethnic, and race studies vital for UVA’s commitment to Race, Justice, and Equality
Statement from the Department of American Studies
The Department of American Studies stands with UVa President James Ryan and over five hundred other college and university presidents in opposing unprecedented government overreach and political interference in American higher education. As members of a public university and in service of democracy and the public good, we express our bedrock commitment (1) to academic and intellectual freedom, (2) to free and open inquiry, (3) to our core missions of teaching and research in pursuit of truth, (4) to the autonomy of colleges and universities to conduct their affairs free of undue government intrusion and the coercive use of public funding, and (5) to constructive engagement that will improve our institutions and serve our republic.
