Archived News

• Michelle Brown on the work ahead of us: “Back to Academia, In Struggle”
• Three steering committee members or closely affiliated faculty—Katy Chiles, Tore Olssen, and Brandon Winfield—won competitive fellowships for 2016-2017 research at the Tennessee Humanities Institute
• Mark Hulsether presents at Fulbright conference in Hong Kong on “Imperial Benevolence: U.S. Foreign Policy in American Popular Culture Since 9/11”
• First-ever section of a NEW course cross-listed in English and American Studies: “American Cultures.” Check it out!
• McClung Museum to feature display on Alaska Native Art based on a senior project of 2016 graduate Christine Dano Johnson
• In 2014-2015 we proudly launched sixteen graduating majors or minors with impressively diverse trajectories
• Christine Johnson has published the paper she wrote for the 2014 American Studies Senior Seminar in "Pursuit", UT's selective journal of undergraduate research.
• American Culture Through Graphic Novels: American Studies 310 in Second Summer Session
• Paranoid Visions & Conspiracy Theories in the United States: American Studies 310 in First Summer Session
• Kimberly Burley has been accepted into the Master of Urban Planning Program at the University of Buffalo
• Sumner Brown is working on a thesis about the role of the Knoxville-based Coal Creek Company (a land-leasing company) in the broader scope of US labor history
• Blaire Hamilton is pursuing a dual masters at Emory University in the fields of religion and public health
• Christine Dano Johnson, a curatorial intern at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, recently co-curated Birds, Bugs, and Blooms: Natural History Illustrations from the 1500s to the 1800s
• Announcing a new SCOUT award (Service and Community Outreach at UT) for American Studies majors
• Andrew Emmitt and Landon Bevier will present papers at a conference at Kennesaw State University
• Jacob Hayes selected to give the major commencement address during the December 2013 ceremony
• Larry Finley is spending the Fall 2013 semester studying labor issues and gaining hands-on organizing experience in the New York Union Semester
• Jasmine Bowden spent July 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa, as a participant in UT’s competitive International Civic Engagement program
• Sumner Brown has been accepted into the M.A. program in rhetoric and writing in UT's English Department
• Christine Johnson works as a volunteer in the collections and archives at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee
• Ross Foster Johnson prepares to be an Elementary Education teacher
• Jacob Hayes to spend Spring 2013 working as a legislative intern for the Chief Clerk of the Tennessee State House of Representatives
• Sarah Gregory will begin a M.A. Program in Higher Education Administration at Appalachian State University
• Lois Presser has published a groundbreaking collection on Narrative Criminology: Understanding Stories of Crime
• American Studies faculty, Katy Chiles and Michelle Brown, won major awards at the 2015 Chancellors Honors Banquet
• Michelle Brown wins the Theoretical Criminology Best Article Prize for her article "Visual criminology and circular studies: Counter-images in the carceral age"
• Amber Roessner interviewed former President Jimmy Carter as part of her research for her book in progress, Jimmy Who: Jimmy Carter and the Practice of Presidential Press and Promotion in the First Post-Watergate Election
• Bob Hutton wins two more awards for his book "Bloody Breathitt: Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South"
• Katy Chiles published "Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America" with Oxford University Press
• Chris Holmlund published a fourth anthology, The Ultimate Stallone Reader: Sylvester Stallone as Star, Icon, Auteur, in 2014 with Wallflower Press
• Patrick Grzanka published Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader (Westview Press), in February 2014
• Martin Griffin's book "Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World" published by Ashgate
• Julie Reed named the David J. Weber Fellow for Southwestern America at the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
• Mary Campbell awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship for the 2013-2014 year
• De Ann Pendry selected to receive the 2013 ESPIRITU LATINO AWARD
• Christine Holmlund is the lead organizer for a major international conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
• Bringing Enlightenment to C-SPAN and NPR!
• Gregory Button and Barbara Heath organize international symposium held at UT
• UT cultural critique on C-SPAN
• Katy Chiles won a highly competitive NEH Summer Stipend for her book "Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America"
• Distinguished speakers on musicology and American culture
• A group of Brazilian undergraduates visited UT to study US history, politics, and culture
• Mark Hulsether wrote an article disputing misperceptions about the "Decline" of Liberal Religion for the The Oxford Handbook of Religion and News Media
• English Department sponsored a public lecture by Eric Carl Link
• Our program co-sponsored a session on “Benjamin Mays and the Legacies of Twentieth-Century African-American Religious Leadership”
• A leading environmental justice advocate spoke on “Corporate Accountability and Environmental Justice”