Department of American Studies
104 Scott Hall
72 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4190
Fax: 612-624-3858
E-mail: amstdy@umn.edu

College of Liberal Arts

Department of American Studies

  • Afro 3910 Black Internationalism

    In class announcement for your students: course offering. The course Afro 3910, "Black Internationalism," taught by Yuichiro Onishi will be held in Blegen Hall 330 Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:45-11:00am.

     (Continue Reading)December 2nd, 2008
 

For over sixty years, American Studies both at Minnesota and nationwide has been a leader in the interdisciplinary and increasingly global study of the United States. We are proud of our distinguished faculty and alumni who have made important contributions to fields as diverse as historical and literary studies, the study of race, class, gender, religion and sexuality, popular culture and media studies, and transnational scholarship. American Studies faculty care deeply about scholarship and the research they pursue and publish. They draw on literary and archival sources as well as ethnographic studies of work places and religious communities. They have examined film and music as well as letters and diaries, poetry and sociological theory, architecture and immigration. We are proud of our tradition as a pioneer in the changing nature of American studies. Since the 1990s we have developed a strong, joint mission with African-American Studies, American-Indian Studies, Chicano Studies, and most recently Asian-American Studies to train undergraduate and graduate students in the important research that has emerged from these fields.

In American Studies we look at scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach to the citizens of Minnesota as necessary and mutually supportive of our mission. Our faculty teaches at all levels. One-third of the faculty have won prestigious teaching awards at the university which gives them membership in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, one-quarter have been recognized for outstanding contributions to the larger community, and one-third have been recognized as among the College of Liberal Arts distinguished scholars.

We have a lively and outstanding community of graduate students and our undergraduate majors have one of the most flexible and interdisciplinary majors in the College. At the same time, they have the opportunity to write a major research paper in their senior year.