'My ability to explore was instrumental in forming my academic consciousness'
Olivia Ochoa is a Spanish & American studies major.
Read moreThe American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary engagement with what America means in the United States and in a global context. Faculty encourage students to look at the meaning and reality of the evolving United States as a question still in need of answering and as an experiment still in process, not as a dream fully realized. We use multiple perspectives and methodologies and require that students synthesize knowledge in ways that develop the skills needed for rigorous, complex analysis.
Olivia Ochoa is a Spanish & American studies major.
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Read moreElizabeth Rene is a government & American studies major.
Read moreThe creative team have worked for decades across music, text and visual art to explore complex histories and social tensions.
Read moreProfessor of Africana studies Riché Richardson says reclaiming country music for the Black community and rebranding the genre as an inclusive space are triumphs of Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter.”
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Read moreIzzy MacFarlane declared American Studies as her major since it was tailored to many of her interests at the time such as working in the fields of law, government, public policy, and/or non profits.
Read moreAmerican Studies major, Claudia León co-curated "Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and the World the Textile Industry Created," which was at Kroch Library through September 2023.
When asked about the American Studies major, León stated, "I don’t think I can overstate the impact (AMST/HIST 1802) had on me — it introduced me to an entire history, people looking at artwork partially my own, that I had never learned in either the U.S. or Puerto Rican education systems. Learning histories that are deliberately suppressed also helped me reframe and re-evaluate the histories I had been taught, which piqued my interest in historiography while igniting a desire to further explore my Puerto Rican history."
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