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Breaking Away: Freedom for Cultural Feminisms and Food Justice

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The role of culturally appropriate food practices and traditionally practiced indigenous and immigrant gender roles are Madeline Brennan’s focus for research in American Studies. She is a senior in her final semester and is pursuing a career that helps enact change to support these populations.

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The Future of Radical History: Gaye Johnson Delivers David Noble Lecture in His Honor

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Gaye Theresa Johnson, a former student of David Noble, American Studies alumna, and associate professor at UCLA will give the David Noble Lecture this year. Her lecture will revisit the arguments in two of Noble’s books, The End of American History and Death of a Nation for understanding history and culture, how our perceptions of them have changed since he wrote them, and to remind us of the strength we have in our communities.

Why You Shouldn’t Throw Away a “Trash Film”

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Music journalist turned PhD student Matthew Tchepikova-Treon is particularly fascinated by how disenfranchised artists, laborers, and communities began participating in cultural production through exploitation cinema—something that was mostly unavailable to them prior to the 1970s. These “trash films” aren’t just a simple form of cheap entertainment.

Uncovering the Hidden Politics of Music

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After taking a course on the US in the world and seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study abroad in South Africa, senior Abby Yates has become fascinated by the politics of music. Now, she studies music ambassadors to uncover just how much power music has on politics in the United States.

Q&A with First Lieutenant Governor and CLA Alum Matthew Martinez

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“I always felt part of a close community of public intellectuals, voices, and perspectives,” says PhD alumnus Matthew J. Martinez. In this interview, he reflects upon his experiences as a graduate student and how American studies prepared him for his role as first lieutenant governor of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo.

New Doctoral Program to Explore Indigenous Studies

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The Department of American Studies will offer a new program next year that will allow doctoral students to pursue indigenous studies. Karen Ho, associate professor of anthropology, says the American Indian Studies Department hopes to create its own graduate program in the future. “We want to solidify long-standing work that the University has done in this field," Ho says.

American Studies 2018 Graduate Student Cohort

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Meet American Studies 2018 Graduate Student Cohort.

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On Purpose: Portrait of American Studies

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The Department of American Studies is one of the oldest and most renowned departments of its kind in the country. Founded over 60 years ago, our early faculty and students found a freedom of expression in interdisciplinary work. Today, our faculty pursue a wide range of scholarly projects as they write award-winning books, receive teaching and public engagement awards, and garner acclaim both nationally and internationally.

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On Purpose: Portrait of Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies

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The Race, Indigeneity, Gender & Sexuality Studies Initiative (RIGS) was established in 2015 to support innovative research, teaching, community-building, and engagement for scholars and students addressing issues on these topics. RIGS is dedicated to bringing faculty and students together to pursue lines of inquiry that challenge systems of power and inequality, assert human dignity, and imagine social transformation.

A PhD with a Purpose

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"What happened during Japanese American incarceration is not coincidental at all—it's just how US settler colonialism has always and continues to function," says Hana Maruyama, whose grandmother and nearly 14,000 others of Japanese ancestry were displaced to Heart Mountain, the same place where the Apsáalooke American Indian Nation had been wrongfully relocated from years before. Maruyama is pursuing a PhD in American studies to further her research on the connections between Japanese American incarceration in the context of US settler colonialism.

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