Understanding “American culture” as the interplay of material practices and the realm of ideas

The Undergraduate degree program in American Studies considers technology, economy, urbanism, and ecology, as well as literature, the arts, and political and geographic history. American Studies takes a particular interest in cultural hybridity, cultural layering, and in American culture exported abroad.

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Spotlight on American Studies Graduates

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Adrienne Johnson

Talking with Their Mouths Full: Competitive Eating and the Cultural Meaning of American Bodies
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Ramzi Fawaz

Big Trouble in Smallville: The Rise of the Teenage Superhero in the 20th Century
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Allison Wallace

Allison Wallace : - The Corporeality of Contraception: Reading Degeneracy, Resistance, and Nation through the Body in The Birth Control Review (Class of 2015)

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Laura Spautz
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amerstd@berkeley.edu