Please join us for a live conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning sociologist Matthew Desmond The Coming Covid Eviction Crisis and How to Stop It Tuesday, July 28, 2020, 9:00 am Hawai‘i time Register and submit questions in advance HERE. Hawai‘i residents have long struggled with...
Please join us on Thursday, June 25th at 12:00 p.m. for a talk by Richard Morrison. This event is co-sponsored by the American Studies and English Departments. Details are provided below. The UHM Dept. of English, as part...
Please join us for a livestream conversation with author, humanitarian, and Super Bowl champion Michael Bennett. Reclaiming Humanity: Racism, Violence, Resistance, Love Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 12:00 noon Hawai‘i time Please register and submit advance questions HERE. Please also help us spread the...
The UH American Studies Department shares the indignation and sorrows over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and far too many others and stands in solidarity with our Black family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and their...
The UH American Studies Department recognizes the organizational work of Academic Labor United to demand better labor conditions for graduate student workers. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act requires the University to provide employees--including GAs and lecturers--who are unable to...
Congratulations to one of our AMST majors, Jun Shin, for receiving the Sierra Club's prestigious Randy Ching Award! Jun Shin is going into his Junior year at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, currently majoring in both American Studies and Ethnic Studies. ...
This fall, Dr. Kathleen Sands is leading a graduate seminar on American Sexualities (AMST 618) which will happen on Mondays at 2:30 p.m. This is a course that we don't get to offer very often. It's a great course in...
We are so proud to announce that one of our undergraduate students, Donavan Albano, has received a prestigious national award from the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship. For more details, please go to: http://henryclaycenter.org/portfolio_page/donavanalbano/ ...
Her recent book Dearest Lenny has attracted widespread scholarly interest as well as a solid general readership following. Professor Yoshihara is also the executive editor of the prestigious American Quarterly, the journal of the American Studies Association. ...
