Workshop in American Studies
The Workshop in American Studies brings together students and faculty from the wide range of departments that contribute to the Program in American Studies. By encouraging a diversity of topics from researchers from a variety of departments, we hope the Workshop highlights the advantages of the "in-between" disciplinary space that American Studies inhabits at Princeton. Our goal is to provide a forum where presenters can receive feedback from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives and participants can be exposed to new methodologies and new topics for research. Moreover, we hope to foster a community of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and faculty who share in the common project of researching the American experience.
The format of the workshop is that the speaker introduces the paper for ten minutes and then we open up the floor to questions. Copies of the papers are made available outside the American Studies office, 42 McCosh Hall.
As lunch is provided at noon workshops, we require reservations. Please contact the AMS Program office, 42 McCosh Hall, 258-4710, or email mkilleen@princeton.edu.
2009-2010 Workshop Schedule
American Studies Workshops will continue to be scheduled on Mondays at 12 noon during the 2009-2010 academic year. We will post all fall workshop titles by the end of August.
Monday, October 19, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
From Appomattox to Juneteenth: African American Commemoration of Lee's Surrender and the End of Slavery
Elizabeth R. Varon, Professor of History and Associate Director, Center for the Humanities, Temple University
Monday, October 26, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Musical Recourses, Mystical Qualities: Cuba Linda Lifts the Studies Protocol
Alexandra Vazquez, Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies
Monday, November 9, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Tolstoy's Rabbi, American Progressivism and Jewish Agriculture: A First Look at Dr. Joseph Krauskopf and the Founding of the National Farm School
Rabbi Lance Sussman, Visiting Professor of Religion and Senior Rabbi, Congregation Keneseth Israel
Cosponsored with the Program in Judaic Studies
Wednesday, November 11, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Women at Arms: The Female Shape of the All-Volunteer Force
Elizabeth Hillman, Professor of Law, Hastings College of the Law, University of California and Lizette Alvarez, National Correspondent, The New York Times
Cosponsored with the Program in the Study of Women and Gender
Monday, November 16, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Our Father: School Prayer and the Challenges of Interfaith Politics
Neil Young, Lecturer in History
Monday, December 7, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Cuisine du Terroir (Regional Cooking), at home and abroad
Amy Trubek, Food Anthropologist and Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Science, University of Vermont
Monday, January 18, 12 p.m., Dickinson 210
Adrift in the Archives: Venturing into the Backstage of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jonathan Rieder, Professor of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University