Past News
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.