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We are dedicated to creating an open, diverse, and dynamic intellectual space that supports us in our scholarly work and professional lives. Join us. Get involved.Use and contribute to our collective resources for promoting interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and creative work at your institution. New Initiative for Minority-Serving InstitutionsThe ASA announces a new initiative, offering institutional membership to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build cross-institutional collaboration and support.  Read More In the current moment, people are drawing from multiple legacies of rebellion, protest, survival, and revolution to confront forms of dehumanization and ecological degradation that are foundational to the making of “America.” What might it mean to apprehend and respond to the creative acts of people in revolt? How might creativity enable other ways of envisioning and making sociality, community, bodily and spiritual integrity, and radical futurity?Baltimore City by Yianni Mathioudakis is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.0 License. Early Americas Caucus Since the mid-1990s, the Early American Matters Caucus has been addressing pre-1900 American studies topics, broadly understood. We’re a collegial, friendly group, and we do our best both to cultivate a sense of community among pre-1900 Americanists and to bridge early... This issue includes Scott Kurashige’s presidential address, “‘Unruly Subjects’: American Studies from Antidiscipline to Revolutionary Praxis,” which traces the emergence of the ASA as home for those from outside the institutional history of the field, points to the crisis of liberal capitalism and ruptures it has created, and illustrates examples of scholar–activist work seeking to build the revolution toward a new social order, such as the work of Detroit-based Grace Lee Boggs. We have asked two such scholar–activists to respond to Kurashige’s address: Curtis Marez and Noura Erakat. This issue also features six essays that coalesce and speak well with one another around several themes: species, environment, and settler colonialism; racialization and othering in nation and empire building; race, solidarity, and anti-imperialism. Finally, in the review section, Julie Sze discusses recent works on race, animality, and animal studies, while Chloe Hunt examines books on speculative approaches to time and space in Black critical theory. Explore AQ The 2014-2015 Working Papers Series provides practitioners in American studies with tools to create, position, and sustain American Studies programs within the current landscape of higher education. Strategies for Programs, Departments, and Centers under the Threat of Budget Cuts Karen Leong (Arizona State University) and Matthew Frye Jacobson (Yale University) suggest ways that American studies departments can respond to threats of program dismantlement and offer proactive strategies to develop departmental security by illustrating the assets of American studies... Creating Goals and Outcomes for American Studies Programs Mark Rice (St. John Fisher College) offers guidance on how American Studies programs can craft student learning goals and measureable outcomes that align to an institution’s educational mission and clearly articulate the program’s contributions. Some Best Practices for Recruiting Students to American Studies Programs Rebecca Hill (Kennesaw State University) offers 20 tips on "laying the groundwork" for recruiting students to undergraduate and graduate MA programs, as well as recruiting strong PhD students. What is American Studies? George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara) examines the genealogy of American studies in tracing the history of the field, from the nascent interdisciplinary inquiries into cultures of the United States during the 1930s to the eclectic array of paradigms in today’s American studies... Writing Mission Statements for American Studies Departments and Programs Matthew Mancini (Saint Louis University) posits topics to assist individuals and departments in developing a mission statement that reflects the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration, highlights the diversity of American studies, and aligns to the college or university’s mission statement... The Nature and Meaning of Research in American Studies Ben Chappell (University of Kansas) explores how the “interdisciplinary rigor of American Studies” fosters diverse research topics and methodological approaches, and notes how researchers in the field share their scholarship within the academy and with the broader public. How to Position American Studies as Vital to Your Institution Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello (Salem State University) and Karen Leong (Arizona State University) present extensive strategies for articulating the value of American studies programs to the missions of their institutions and to broader national and global trends in higher education.

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