Archived Student News

• 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