News & Events
Past News
October 2008
Thanks to grants from the Undergraduate Research Fund and the American Studies Program, on September 25, 2008 Kyle Halle-Erby (2010) will join thousands of scholars, youth, activists, and former prisoners to mark the tenth anniversary of Critical Resistance, an organization founded by Angela Davis, which seeks to abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. The conference, CR10, will unite a unique array of people in order to celebrate and build upon the last decade of activism geared towards fully understanding the disastrous effects that surveillance, policing and imprisonment have on our lives. By participating in this conference, Kyle will have the opportunity to connect his interests in Education, Critical Race Theory and Community Development, which he has been able to pursue through the American Studies Program. CR10 will allow Kyle to apply what he has learned in his American Studies courses to a contemporary, urgent and national issue of great interest and importance to him.
October 2008
Last summer, with funding from the National Geographic Society and Tufts’ New Directions Faculty Research Award, former American Studies Chair, Francie Chew, journeyed from the Yukon Territory north to the Arctic Circle for a five-week camping trip, roughing it with a group of researchers and undergraduates from Stanford University.
For more details, please visit:
http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2008/09/corner/01/.
April 2008
Attention Seniors and Alums in American Studies
All of us in American Studies wish you the very best as you finish up your courses at Tufts University, take your finals, empty your dorm rooms/apartments, and receive your diplomas. Your next journey will be of great interest to us, so be sure to check out the website for American Studies and hopefully there will be an electronic directory of American Studies Alumni for you to stay connected.
Meanwhile, you can stay connected at the following website:
http://www.alumniconnections.com/tufts
April 2008
Kate Winter goes on College Jeopardy!
Senior Katie Winter will be representing Tufts in College Jeopardy on May 8, 2008. Don't miss it. Katie has already filmed the segment but is sworn to secrecy. She is a double major with English and American Studies.April 2008
Margaret Floyd Henderson Prize
>Senior Qian-Qian (Tina) Ye has been awarded the Margaret Floyd Henderson Architectural Studies Prize. Tina has been the web designer for the American Studies program for the past 2 years. She is graduating this year with a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Architectural Studies.
April 2008
Sheila Driscoll, American Studies Program Coordinator, is retiring
After 16 years of serving asthe Program Coordinator of American Studies, Sheila is retiring on May 1st. Her replacement will be announced soon.February 2008
Professor Bruchac to be honored at "Returning the Gift" Conference
Dr. Margaret (Marge) Bruchac, currently a Visiting Lecturer in the
American Studies Department at Tufts University, has just been notified
that she is the recipient of two awards for excellence in writing from
the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers.
Bruchac's children's book, "Malian's Song" (Vermont Folklife Center
2006) is the joint winner of the "Writer of the Year Award, Children
2005-2006," having tied with Simon Ortiz' book "The Good Rainbow Road."
Bruchac has also been chosen as the winner of the "Writer of the Year
Award, Doctoral Dissertation 2006-2007," for her anthropology thesis,
"Historical Erasure and Cultural Recovery: Indigenous People in the
Connecticut River Valley."
All of the Wordcraft Circle awardees for 2005-2007 will be honored at
the upcoming "Returning the Gift" Conference on March 13-15, 2008,
hosted by the American Indian Studies Program at Michigan State
University. More information about the conference can be found at:
http://aisp.msu.edu/schedule.html
June 2007
Faculty Awards
Congratulations to Steve Cohen who won the Tufts "Professor of the Year" award!
May 2007
Recommended Courses in Other Departments
Masculinities in Urban Schooling ED191-14: Will address issues of masculinity in schooling through narrative, ethnographic, and sociological analyses.
Issues in Urban Education ED191-13: A thematic investigation of the political policies and socio-economic processes that contain and inform urban schooling.