- 2416 Dwinelle Hall
- jsart@berkeley.edu
Christine Palmer
Director
Office Hours
In Person Advising (253 Evans):
- Tuesdays, 11 am – 12 pm
- Thursdays, 11 am – 12 pm (none on 10/20)
Drop in, no appointment required.
Remote Advising:
- Wednesdays, 3-4 pm (9/28 – 10/26)
- Fridays, 10 am – 12 pm
- Fridays, 1-2:30 pm (10/14 – 10/28)
To book an appointment, use the calendar here: https://bit.ly/3icy8GR
Bio
Christine Palmer holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She also completed a Master’s in Anthropology at UC Berkeley and an AB in Romance Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Palmer’s research and teaching focus on the interplay between race, visual culture, literature, and cultural memory in twentieth-century popular and mass culture.
Recent course offerings include: Love, American Style; Explosive Ideologies: American Culture in the Atomic Age; At Home in America (co-taught with Kathleen Moran); Harlem Renaissance (co-taught with Bryan Wagner); Frontiers in American History and Culture (co-taught with Mark Brilliant); Standing in a Crooked Room Speaking God’s Language: Memory, Creation, and Fiction; Everyday America; The Teen Age; America, Song by Song (co-taught with Greil Marcus and Kathleen Moran); America at Play; Rebels and Revolutionaries; and The Road in American Culture.
Future course offerings will include: The Future Then: Imagining American Tomorrows; James Baldwin’s America, 1953-74; Growing Up: Childhood in American History and Culture (co-taught with Mark Brilliant); and The Good Life (co-taught with Chiyuma Elliott).
Leah Carroll
Haas Scholars Program Manager and Advisor
The American Studies minor allows students to take advantage of the one of largest and most diverse course curricula available anywhere in the world as well as learn about the American context that impacts and defines the issues they are learning about in their departmental majors. Open to all UC Berkeley students, the minor will introduce students to interdisciplinary modes of inquiry, foster knowledge about the culture of the U.S., and train students to write and communicate clearly about it.
To receive a minor in American Studies, students must complete 24-units as follows:
- one lower-division introduction to American Studies course (Amerstd 10, Amerstd 10AC, 4 units)
- two upper-division courses that focus on “Time,” and two upper-division “Place” courses in American Studies (16 total units). NOTE: Students may occasionally enroll in a 3-unit upper-division courses to satisfy this requirement, as offered.
- one capstone research/writing project to be completed in one of the existing seminar courses taught by American Studies affiliated faculty (4 units)
All students in the minor will have hands-on guidance and advice from American Studies faculty. For more information about the minor, please contact the American Studies Student Academic Advisor, Laura Spautz at amerstd@berkeley.edu.
2414 evans Hall
mail@gmail.com
In Person Advising (253 Evans):
- Tuesdays, 11 am – 12 pm
- Thursdays, 11 am – 12 pm (none on 10/20)
Drop in, no appointment required.
Remote Advising:
- Wednesdays, 3-4 pm (9/28 – 10/26)
- Fridays, 10 am – 12 pm
- Fridays, 1-2:30 pm (10/14 – 10/28)
To book an appointment, use the calendar here: https://bit.ly/3icy8GR