American Studies
Field Description
Although there is no formally structured graduate program in American Studies, graduate students in any field at Cornell can elect American Studies as a minor field. In order to declare a graduate minor in American Studies, students should discuss how an interdisciplinary minor in American Studies may fit into their overall interests with an Amerian Studies faculty member. They must also make sure that declaring a minor in American Studies is compatible with the requirements of their major field, and secure the approval of their special committee chair. They will have to constitute their special committee so that one special committee member represents American studies.
This is a minor field. Application for admission is made only to the major fields. After matriculation, a student may select minor subjects from the major or minor fields.
Contact Information
Website: https://as.cornell.edu/american-studies-majorEmail: american_studies@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-0097
402 Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-0000
Subject and Degrees
Concentrations by Subject
American Studies
- American studies (minor)
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American political development; state formation; comparative political economy; the United States Congress
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: 20th century american literature and culture, modernism, cultural institutions, media and book history
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: Asian American, African American, and 19th Century U.S. history; U.S. race relations; American religion
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American Drama and Theatre; Women and Theatre
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: immigration and ethnic history; folklore
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: Native North America, Puerto Rico and Cuba; textual, material and visual culture; tourism; history of American anthropology.
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American cinema, silent film, mass culture, cinema in the context of other media (including theater), theories of race and ethnicity, immigrant cultures, urban studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: social stratification and inequality; sociology of education; race and ethnicity, mass incarceration
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American modernism, African-American literature, race in American culture, Walt Whitman
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: film and culture; spoken word poetry; hip-hop theatre studies; critical race theory; women of color feminisms and queer color critique
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: US political and social history after World War II; the welfare-state and mass-incarceration
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: democratic theory, american pragmatism, 19th - 20th century american political thought
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: latino music, masculinities, U.S.-Mexico border, transnationalism, embodied culture
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: experimental music, improvisation, cultural studies, jazz, popular music and sound studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: american culture, environmental studies
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: american cinema and media; 20th century theatre and performance; television and popular culture; feminist and queer theory
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: 18th and 19th century American fiction; American women writers
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: ethnicity; language, institutional culture, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, urban anthropology, Latino cultures
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: anthropology of education, critical race studies, Latina/Chicana Germanisms, civic education, ethnography and narrative
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
- Research Interests: performance studies; theories of sex, gender and sexuality; theater and social change; the American prison system