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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Book Chat with Margaretta Lovell: Painting the Inhabited Landscape – 10/4/23, 12-1 pm
Sep 06 2023Painting the Inhabited Landscape: Fitz H. Lane and the Global Reach of Antebellum America Margaretta Lovell Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall The impulse in much nineteenth-century ...


Video recording of May 17 UGIS Commencement Ceremony is available!
May 18 2023https://youtube.com/live/EykMhvnKqzw


American Studies Spring Conference, May 4, 2023 – Women’s Faculty Club
May 02 2023TWICE TOLD TALES Thursday, May 4, 2018 Women's Faculty Club Lucy Ward Stebbins Lounge, UC Berkeley 10:00 AM Coffee and Informal Welcome 10:40 Brandi Summers (Geography) / "Black City Futures" 11:20 Mark Brilliant (History) ...


American Studies Alumnus Calvin Nguyen Awarded the 2023 Tompkins Fellowship
Apr 14 2023The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to name Calvin Nguyen, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, as the 2023 HABS-SAH Sally Kress Tompkins Fellow. The Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, a joint program ...
Spotlight on American Studies Graduates


Daniel Acree
Daniel Acree : - "Cinematic American Tough: Evolution Of Inclusion From The Cold War To The Millennial Era" (Class of 2016)


Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland
Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland : - Racial Formations In New York Fashion Week under the Obama Era (Class of 2014)


Catherine O’Neal
Taking a Trip: The Road, Drugs, and Americans

