AMST faculty, Kasey Jernigan will sit down with artist Jaime Black-Morsette to discuss The REDress Project - an installation art project created to seek justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit people (MMIWG2S). Join via Zoom on Friday, April 28 at 3:00 pm.
As featured in UVAToday: Prof. Lisa Goff is the winner of an All University Public Service Award. See the story at: https://news.virginia.edu/content/employees-years-public-service-university-community-earn-awards?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news.
American Studies Majors are invited to join our off-campus solidarity hours/study hall time followed by a music event featuring Damon Locks.
When: Thursday, December 8, 3-5 PM (music event starts at 5 PM)
Where: Visible Records, 1740 Broadway St., Charlottesville VA
In consort with the Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Mellon Foundation, the UVA Department of American Studies hopes to provide a departmental home to a Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies. We seek a rising scholar (candidates who received (or will receive) their Ph.D. degree between August 24, 2020 and August 24, 2023).
AMST faculty Carmen Lamas won the Latin American Studies Association's Latinx Section's Outstanding Book Award for 2022 for her book, The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford University Press, 2021). This is a highly competitive award that is only awarded every other year. Congratulations, Carmen!
Expand the course offereings below to learn more about the class schedule, theme, cross listing, and major requirements.
MW 02:00PM-02:50PM | MRY 209
Matthew Hedstrom & Grace Hale
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $616,670 grant to the University of Virginia to create a research institute for interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching and cultural projects related to the intersection of feminist Black and Indigenous Studies.
Read Prof. Jack Hamilton's latest article for Slate here: https://slate.com/culture/2022/02/kanye-west-documentary-jeen-yuhs-netflix-movie-review.html?curator=MediaREDEF
As featured in UVAToday: Prof. Hale (American Studies, History) is honored with the 2021 Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for her book "Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture". Read the full article here.
As featured on UVAToday: Prof. Jack Hamilton breaks down the history of the Beatles and their impact on rock 'n' roll. Read the full article here.
AMST faculty, Kasey Jernigan will sit down with artist Jaime Black-Morsette to discuss The REDress Project - an installation art project created to seek justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous... Read»
As featured in UVAToday: Prof. Lisa Goff is the winner of an All University Public Service Award. See the story at: ... Read»
American Studies Majors are invited to join our off-campus solidarity hours/study hall time followed by a music event featuring Damon Locks.
When: Thursday, December 8, 3-... Read»
