Museum Scholarship PracticumView DetailsAMST857Graduate Courses, Spring 2017Museum Scholarship PracticumStudents devise and carry out a research program using the collections at the Smithsonian Institution or some other cooperating museum, working...
Embodied Knowledge: Theorizing and Historicizing the “Black Body”View DetailsAMST628KGraduate CoursesEmbodied Knowledge: Theorizing and Historicizing the “Black Body”“Embodied Knowledge” is a graduate seminar illuminating the material, experiential, representational, and political manifestations of...
Current Approaches to American StudiesView DetailsAMST603Graduate Courses, Spring 2017Current Approaches to American Studies“Current Approaches to American Studies” is the second course in a two-course sequence required of all masters and doctoral students in...
Introduction to Digital StudiesView DetailsAMST629UGraduate Courses, Spring 2019Introduction to Digital StudiesDigital Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and teaching that combines the critical study of new forms of digital media,...
Myth and Memory: 2007View DetailsAMST428G / AMST628IGraduate Courses, Spring 2017, Undergraduate Courses, Upper DivisionMyth and Memory: 2007Myth and Memory: 2007 will be a hands-on exploration of the events, experiences and cultures of America ten years ago. Focusing on a single...
Space, Place, and Identity in the Digital AgeView DetailsAMST628NGraduate CoursesSpace, Place, and Identity in the Digital AgeDownload Syllabus Here Our bodies and identities are intimately bound to the spaces we move through. It is impossible to conceive of a meaningful...
Fashion and Consumer CultureView DetailsAMST498B / AMST628AGraduate Courses, Spring 2017, Undergraduate CoursesFashion and Consumer CultureThis seminar will introduce major theoretical works in the study of consumer behavior, from Veblen’s “Theory of the Leisure Class” to...
Comparative Race & EthnicityView DetailsAMST629NGraduate Courses, Spring 2017Comparative Race & EthnicityIn this course you’ll learn how race and ethnicity were created, defended, and adapted by various communities in the United States over space...