Program History & Archived Events
Program History
Updates coming soon
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 ASGSO Table Talk Events
- 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
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