American Studies

The American Studies Program engages students in the interdisciplinary study of the culture and society of the United States and the Americas, past and present. We encourage students to cross traditional intellectual boundaries and develop perspectives on American life that are more expansive and critical than those normally found within the limits of a single discipline. Working with a wide array of methods, themes, and materials, students discover firsthand our society's rich and often conflicted history of cultural, racial, and sexual diversity.