Archived Events
- Professional Development Panel w/alumni & Dr. Yuri Doolan
- CARE/Title IX Workshop
- Journal Club
- Tarana Burke: co-sponsored with LGBTQ Center
- Cherríe Moraga: co-sponsored with LCC
- Zinn Celebration - David Detmer (Purdue Northwest)
- Annual Graduate Symposium
- American Studies Brown Bag Making the Most of Your Plan of StudyCafe Film Screening Howl
- Café Film Screening Four Portraits of Native Action
- Café Film Screening Howard Zinn's The People Speak
- Tera Hunter: Until Death or Distance Do You Part': Marriage and Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
- Tera Hunter: Graduate Student Forum on Research Methods in Race, Gender, and Class featuring Tera Hunter
- Marilyn Fischer: Interpreting a Murder with Addams and Mead
- International Conference: "American Studies and Imperial Designs: New Scholarship and Perspectives on the U.S. in the World"
Archived Lecture Series
- Spring 2009 Lecture Series
- Fall 2008 Lecture Series
- 2008 Spring Lecture Series
- 2007 Fall Professional Development Series
- 2007 Spring Lecture Series
- 2006 Fall Lecture Series
- 2006 Spring Lecture, Colloquia and Workshop Series
- 2005 Fall Lecture and Colloquia Series
Archived Colloquiums
- Dr. Mel Stanfill: What's Old is New Again: Mashup and the Promise of Transcendence
- Dr. Mary Mitchell: The Atomic Imperium: Time, Tech, & Territoriality in US Empire, 1942-1947
- Dr. Beza Merid: Joking in Prognosis: Richard Pryor, Tig Notaro, and the Temporalities of Illness
- Dr. Radhika Gajjala: Is there a  body in the Hashtag?: When Feminist Politics Transgress Physical Infrastructures
- Dr. Stephanie Zywicki: Making America Native Again: Challenging Colonial Discourses in US History Curriculum
- Dr. Sharra Vostral: TOXIC SHOCK A Social History
- Dr. Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler: Toolkits for Change: American Systems Furniture and the Open Plan Office
- Dr. Yvonne Pitts and Lowell Kane: Social Justice and the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence": A Story of Radical Queer Nuns, 1979 to Today.
- Dr. Diego Soares da Silveira: Agency and translation of audiovisual technologies by the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó of Pará: an
- ‘indigenous cinema’
- Dr. Rachel Lee: Black, Asia, and Chimp Entanglements: Critical Biopolitical Studies as American Studies
- Dr. Paisle Currah: Freeze Frames: The Carceral State, Trans Prisoners, and Neoliberal Penality
- Dr. Scott Shoemaker: Wiihsakacaakwa's Bloody Nose: Competing Performances of Indiana Miami and Settler Colonial Identities through Pageantry.
- Dr. Mel Stanfill: Free Fan Labor! The Work of Fancom in the Internet Era
- Dr. Adrienne Brown: Appraisal Literatures: Reading Race at Mid-Century
- Dr. Juana María Rodríguez: Pornographic Encounters and Interpretive Possibilities: Reading Racialized Sexuality Queerly
- Dr. Fiona I.B. Ngô: Structures of Sense: Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Law
- Dr. Mimi Thi Nguyen: Time, and the Promise of Beauty
- Dr. Nitasha Tamar Sharma: Black Hawaiian Hapas: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific
- Dr. Terence Keel: The Strange Career of American Polygenism: From Christian Naturalism to the Progressive Era
Archived ASGSO Table Talk Events
The American Studies Graduate Student Organization (ASGSO) is a student-run organization dedicated to promoting the needs, interests and ideas of graduate students in the American Studies Program at Purdue University. More specifically, it strives to foster interdisciplinary graduate education and dialogue, establish a community within American Studies and beyond – with the ultimate objective of improving the quality of life for graduate students. While enriching student life through academic development, ASGSO seeks to foster strong community among our members through social activities and gatherings.
ASGSO is currently on hiatus. Bienvenido – Akwaaba – ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ – خوش آمدید – 欢迎光临
- Jolivette Anderson-Douoning, PhD Candidate: In Goldleana's Hand: Writing Black Mothers Into Their "Place" in the Cultural History of the Hollywood Neighborhood of Shreveport, Louisiana in 1950
- Joseph Morrison, PhD Student: Reclaiming 'Pepe the Frog': Towards a Transnational Reframing of Racialized Digital Artifacts.
- Paula Ashe, PhD Candidate: The Sister Cyborg Project: Black Feminist Activism in the Digital Age.
- Megan Williams, PhD Candidate: Vibrational Reprieves: Black Women's Soul Food Narratives as Sites of Erotic & Sexual Agency.
- Juanita Crider - Intergenerational Social Media Solidarity: Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Millennials
- Keturah Nix: When Black Girl Magic Summons the Dead: A Discussion on Portraits, Memory, and Black Visual Activism in Beyonce's Lemonade