tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54929666650295023192024-02-19T01:03:25.735-05:00Fordham American StudiesProfessor Glenn Hendlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05193047439910682130noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-42471814986138838962016-12-03T19:39:00.001-05:002016-12-03T19:39:25.228-05:002016 American Studies Senior Symposium & Party | Tuesday, December 13th • 11-4pm Presentations • 4pm Annual Party
Join the American Studies Program for the
2016 American Studies Senior Thesis Symposium and Annual Party!
Tuesday, December 13th: 11am-4pm, Thesis Presentations | 4-6pm Annual Holiday Party
Walsh Library, 4th Floor, O'Hare Special Collections Room, Fordham Rose Hill Campus
This year's senior thesis projects take up widely varied topics, among them, the role of racist tropes inFordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-75442713796975110392016-10-30T22:53:00.000-04:002016-10-30T22:57:46.290-04:00Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Citizenship in Campaign 2016 and Beyond
Join the American Studies Program, the Latin American and Latino/a Studies Institute, the Department of African and African-American Studies, and the Center for Race, Law, and Justice for a public conversation on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Citizenship in Campaign 2016 and Beyond.
Thursday, November 3rd
7:00-9:00pm (doors open 6:30)
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Law Building Fordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-49267478563946487332016-10-20T23:54:00.003-04:002016-10-21T00:25:53.883-04:0010/26 Panel: Who Gets to Vote? And Who Votes? Francis Fox Piven, Ari Berman & Zachary Roth on Voter Suppression
Join the American Studies program for a wide-ranging conversation on two of the most critical issues in American political life: Who gets to vote? And then, who does vote?
Wednesday, October 26th: On Voter Participation and Voter Suppression" — a conversation with Francis Fox Piven, Ari Berman, and Zachary Roth
7:00-9:00pm | Fordham University, Lincoln Center, Lowenstein Hall, Fordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-10666494479111289192016-09-28T09:55:00.003-04:002016-10-16T17:30:29.180-04:00Collaboration and Community at the Futures of American Studies Institute— a report from the 2016 Futures of American Studies Institute (FASI) at Dartmouth College by Callie Gallo, GSAS-American Studies Summer Institute Fellowship Winner, 2016
The Futures of American Studies Institute
is an annual program at Dartmouth College
The 2016 Futures of American Studies Institute (FASI) at Dartmouth College welcomed scholars and graduate students from around the world forFordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-11072315596973814212016-09-21T14:33:00.000-04:002016-09-21T14:41:52.342-04:00”Man Enough?" – Scholar-Activist Jackson Katz to Speak Th•9/29•7pm on masculinity and the 2016 Presidential CampaignsInternationally-recognized gender scholar and activist Jackson Katz to speak at Fordham (9/29, 7-9pm) on masculinity and the 2016 Presidential Election!
Please join American Studies for the kick-off event of our CAMPAIGN 2016 public programming series: "Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity" - a multimedia presentation by award-winning Fordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-15793101796373869932015-12-02T15:38:00.000-05:002015-12-09T01:39:49.762-05:00Fall 2015 Senior Symposium and Annual CelebrationJoin us for the American Studies Senior Thesis Symposium on Friday, December 11, 11-4pm with a celebration and holiday party at 4pm.
Fordham American Studieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15804552894704220311noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-15438772452944393442014-12-09T13:44:00.001-05:002014-12-12T13:52:56.420-05:002014 Senior Thesis Symposium & Holiday PartyPlease join us for the 2014 American Studies Senior Thesis Symposium & Holiday Party. The symposium panels run from 11-4pm and the party commences at 4pm. All are welcome!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-17288712344392763592014-09-19T13:59:00.000-04:002014-12-12T13:47:43.179-05:00A Report from the 2014 Dartmouth “Futures of American Studies Institute”By Christy Pottroff
The 2014 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College was an intense, exhausting, and transformative week-long experience featuring twenty-seven plenaries by distinguished American Studies scholars. While the Institute benefited my scholarship, my academic networks, and my morale, in this post I want to focus on how one of the plenary lectures – CUNY Graduate Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-76755748905225214712014-09-12T13:20:00.000-04:002014-12-12T13:47:56.981-05:00Selfhood and Society in the 21st Century: A Report from the 2014 Dartmouth “Futures of American Studies Institute”
By Julia Cosacchi
Individuality and community are themes that lie at the heart of the field of American Studies. The 2014 Dartmouth Futures of American Studies offered many opportunities to reflect on how the emergence of social media and data-based decision-making affect the relationship between the individual and the community.
My academic interests involve community formation and identity, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-14388840918446316862014-08-17T15:48:00.000-04:002014-08-17T15:53:35.733-04:00American Studies Director Micki McGee Wins ASA Claude Award for Neurodiversity Article
American Studies
Director Micki McGee
The American Sociological Association's Claude Award was presented to Professor Micki McGee this weekend at the ASA's Annual Meeting in San Francisco. McGee received the award for her essay on neurodiversity published in Contexts in Summer 2012. The Claude Awards are designed to recognize "outstanding contributions to Contexts . . . Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-47400744010448072892014-02-28T12:14:00.000-05:002014-02-28T12:14:42.978-05:00Christina Greer's Black Ethnics Wins 2014 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award
American Studies and Political Science Professor Christina Greer’s Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford, 2013) has been awarded the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ 2014 W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award. One member of the awards committee noted that Professor Greer's scholarship fundamentally reorients the way that we must Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-34877404047662378902014-02-28T11:52:00.000-05:002014-02-28T12:15:25.165-05:00Anthropologist and American Studies Professor Ayala Fader Garners NSF Support
Professor Ayala Fader
Anthropologist and American Studies Professor Ayala Fader has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to support her project, "Religious Orthodoxy and New Media Technologies." The project builds upon Dr. Fader's research on non-liberal Jews in Brooklyn and shows how the contemporary struggle over the Internet and other new media is part of a wider Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-72029494550028602072014-01-26T00:00:00.000-05:002014-01-26T01:39:38.857-05:00Catch Christina Greer on NY1 News Tuesday Evening After the State of the Union Address
American Studies and Political Science professor Christina Greer
comments on the inauguration of Mayor Bill De Blasio, January 1, 2014.
American Studies and Political Science professor Christina Greer —who has been a featured commentator on NY1 News throughout the recent mayoral race — will provide analysis on NY1 again this coming Tuesday evening, January 28th, after the State of the Union Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-87814909523106602792013-12-04T12:07:00.001-05:002013-12-04T12:07:32.615-05:00American Studies Senior Thesis Symposium & Annual Celebration | Monday, December 9th, 11-5:30Please join us for all or part of the American Studies Senior Thesis Symposium and Annual Celebration next Monday, December 9th. The talks run from 11am to 4pm in the O'Hare Special Collections Room on the 4th floor of Walsh Library, and are followed by a gala reception that runs from 4 until 5:30.
Topics this year include: masculinity in the American West, hair straighteners and black Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-30402821275926629022013-11-28T16:07:00.000-05:002013-11-28T16:55:35.300-05:00Peppard on Pope Francis: ". . . he's a lot more Karl Marx's economic analysis meets Jesus in the underbelly of 21st century capitalism."
Christiana Peppard on Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium
Earlier this week Pope Francis released an apostolic exhortation denouncing economic inequality and free market ideology, noting that:
"While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-9421047526306864992013-09-24T23:18:00.001-04:002013-10-08T13:28:02.619-04:00American Studies Professor Dennis Tyler, Jr. on "What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us About Trayvon Martin"
Ralph Ellison
Read American Studies Professor Dennis Tyler, Jr. on "What Ralph Ellison Can Teach Us About Trayvon Martin" at Feminist Wire. Tyler notes . . .
"In light of the recent decision by the school board of education in Randolph County, North Carolina, to ban Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man from their libraries—partly because of a parent’s complaint that the book is not age-appropriate Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-25582748989531746222013-09-14T18:20:00.001-04:002013-09-14T18:54:20.940-04:00Message from the New DirectorWelcome back, American Studies Majors and Minors!
Dr. Micki McGee,
Director, American Studies
I am thrilled to have been elected to direct Fordham’s Program in American Studies and looking forward to an exciting year ahead. I want to thank the American Studies affiliated faculty and the Executive Committee for their confidence in my leadership and for this honor.
As those familiar Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-8020851262076464132013-04-23T12:22:00.000-04:002013-09-13T22:03:54.959-04:00Glenn Hendler on Gun Control
Read American Studies Affiliated Professor Glenn Hendler's thoughtful and important article "To the NRA, and to Legislatures that Submit to the NRA's Will":
I get the pleasure of guns; I really do. For a few summers in the 1970s and early 1980s I taught riflery at a summer camp. I was a pretty good shot myself, and I quite enjoyed target shooting. So much of the rest of summer camp involves Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-55117078910320905882013-04-05T12:53:00.000-04:002013-09-13T22:16:49.861-04:00Oneka LaBennett Quoted in Elle Magazine
American Studies Director Professor Oneka LaBennett is quoted in the April issue of Elle Magazine, currently on newsstands. The issue has hip hop artist Nicki Minaj on the cover with a photo shoot and story about her inside. The story quotes LaBennett's Ms. Magazine article about Minaj. The whole article is not available online yet, but here is where LaBennett is quoted:
Anthropologist Oneka Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-59034562662119875552013-04-02T14:18:00.004-04:002013-09-14T18:43:44.781-04:00Christiana Peppard on the Melissa Harris-Perry show
Dr. Christiana Peppard
Fordham American Studies affiliated faculty member, Christiana Peppard discusses morality, the Pope, and gun control on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show! Check out Prof. Peppard's segments here:
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On "the rebirth of morality"
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-4256221200205144952013-02-12T12:42:00.001-05:002013-09-14T00:07:29.284-04:00Where We Get Our Fresh Water by Christiana Z. PeppardCheck out Professor Christiana Peppard's TedEd Lesson on where we get our fresh water . . . Professor Peppard will be co-teaching the Senior Seminar in American Studies with Prof.
Dennis Tyler in Fall 2013.
Or watch the TedEd Lesson at the TED site!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-661630262437558632013-02-05T16:42:00.001-05:002013-09-13T21:03:03.407-04:00Congratulations to Kelly O'Brien!Fordham American Studies congratulates our major, Kelly O'Brien (FCRH '13) whose project, "Contents under Pressure: The Ethnics of Graffiti and Advertising," has been selected as a finalist for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program! Best of luck to Kelly for the final selection round!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-17167877190927958112013-01-15T18:21:00.003-05:002013-09-13T23:44:32.180-04:00Saul Cornell Writes for CNN on Gun ControlFordham American Studies affiliated faculty Saul Cornell writes for CNN.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-13449697874133548572012-11-15T14:50:00.000-05:002013-09-13T23:45:13.547-04:00Congratulations Sarah Ramirez!Congratulations to American Studies Senior Sarah Ramirez just received this week's top writing award at USA TODAY College!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5492966665029502319.post-29186622481743113822012-11-13T16:42:00.005-05:002013-09-13T23:45:46.706-04:00Sarah Ramirez writes another article for USA Today CollegeDon't miss the latest publication from American Studies student Sarah Ramirez in USA Today College!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0