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  • Professor Serena Zabin’s article “The midterms may be over, but we have other civic responsibilities,”

    1 December 2022

    Prof. Serena Zabin’s article “The midterms may be over, but we have other civic responsibilities” between the American Revolution and the Civil War, voting wasn’t seen as the most important…

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  • Emeriti Professor Rich Keiser’s article “Gentrifying America’s school system,” published in Le Monde Diplomatique

    30 November 2022

    Emeriti Prof. Rich Keiser’s article “Gentrifying America’s school system” about building new public schools and closing others is the latest tool for American mayors to reverse ‘white flight’ and bring middle-class families back to the cities. As a result good city schools are getting whiter, was published in the French and English versions of Le Monde Diplomatique (December 2022).

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  • Featured ACE Course: Intro to Indigenous Histories, 1887–Present Outside link

    19 October 2020

    An interview with Professor Meredith McCoy where she discusses her class, the ethics of community collaboration, and the challenges and opportunities of facilitating ACE projects in a pandemic.

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  • Professor Rich Keiser’s article “Subverting the American dream,” published in Le Monde Diplomatique Outside link

    9 September 2020

    Prof. Rich Keiser’s article “Subverting the American dream,” about the new white flight from Asian American excellence in US high schools was published in the French and English versions of Le Monde Diplomatique (September 2020).

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  • Anna Guasco ’16

    Anna Guasco ’16 named Gates Cambridge Scholar

    19 February 2019

    American Studies major Anna Guasco ’16 has been identified by the Gates Cambridge Trust as one of the 34 most academically outstanding and socially committed U.S. citizens, earning her a place in the 2019 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.

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  • Serena Zabin

    American Studies Major Introduces Thematic Concentrations

    14 April 2018

    The American Studies program introduced five “thematic streams” to the major: Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity; Democracy, Activism and Class; Space and Place; Production and Consumption of Culture; and America in the World (Migration, Borderlands and Empire).

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  • Elizabeth McKinsey

    Esteemed Professor Elizabeth McKinsey to deliver annual Argument & Inquiry Seminar Convocation

    13 September 2017

    McKinsey is the Maxine H. and Winston R. Wallin Professor of American Studies and English.

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  • Reinhold Niebuhr documentary

    Carleton to host advance screening of PBS documentary on Reinhold Niebuhr

    6 February 2017

    Emmy Award-winning director Martin Doblmeier will introduce the screening on Feb. 19.

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  • Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter David Henry Hwang comes to Carleton

    20 January 2017

    Recipient of numerous awards and acclaim, Hwang will share his life-long and elusive search for cultural and artistic authenticity.

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  • Highway One, Big Sur 2004

    OCS “Visions of California”, Winter term 2017

    21 June 2016

    This Carleton “Visions of California” seminar is scheduled to return in Winter Term 2017, led by Prof. Michael Kowalewski.

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