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American Studies Spring 2009 Newsletter (PDF)

American Studies Fall 2008 Newsletter (PDF)

The UMD Department and Program of American Studies was recently ranked fourth in the nation by Academic Analytics' 2006 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index

In summer 2006, Assistant Professor Psyche Williams-Forson published her first book, Building Houses out of Chicken Legs, University of North Carolina Press

4/29/09 -- Muller and Boyd named Distinguished Teaching Assistants

4/28/09 -- American Studies undergraduate introduces Barack Obama at the White House

4/28/09 -- Crase wins two Graduate School awards

1/14/09 -- Two American Studies professors awarded competetive research grants

11/14/08 --Three AMST undergraduates honored by College of Arts and Humanities

10/10/08 -- Fall 2008 newsletter released by Department and Program of American Studies

9/23/08 -- Grzanka wins CTE-Lilly Graduate Teaching Fellowship

5/12/08 -- Two American Studies graduate students awarded Wylie dissertation fellowships

4/14/08 -- Spring 2008 newsletter released by Department and Program of American Studies

2/22/08 -- American Studies welcomes Herman Gray to campus for symposium on emerging perspectives on the study of everyday life

1/28/08 -- Professors McCune and Hanhardt receive General Research Board summer awards

11/23/07 -- American Studies at UM ranked fourth in the nation

10/30/07 -- Recent Ph.D. Grad Kelly Quinn wins national dissertation prize

10/1/07 -- American Studies publishes new graduate program brochure

10/1/07 -- American Studies Fall 2007 Newsletter

5/15/07 -- Parks and Paoletti receive awards from the Center for Teaching Excellence

5/15/07 -- Graduate Student Christopher Perez selected by Center for Teaching Excellence as Distinguished Teaching Assistant in American Studies

4/4/2007 -- American Studies welcomes two new faculty members for fall 2007

3/15/2007 -- American Studies Spring 2007 Newsletter

1/10/2007 -- UMD American Studies ranked third in the nation by new index

10/31/2006 -- Assistant Professor Psyche Williams-Forson wins book award from American Folklore Society

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