UT American Studies

📣 Frontera Scholars Collective presents: How Did We Get Here? US Immigration Historians Respond on September 10 @ 6pm!

Welcome back longhorns! We missed you!

Check out all of the FUN we’ve had in our SPRING 2025 Newsletter! Major congratulations to all of the graduates and everyone’s accomplishments. Here is to many more! But for now SUMMER. 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽 heyzine.com/flip-book/AMS.…

Y’ALL! Join us in congratulating Alec Ainsworth for successfully completing his masters thesis titled “Chattel and Conquest: Jackson and Austin’s Embodiment of the Monroe Doctrine in the American Empire.” Our students make us proud every single day 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

Please join us in celebrating Crys Zhao! They completed their masters report titled “HMOOB American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Reimagining Institutional Legitimacy and Belonging in the Neoliberal University!” Say congratulations, thank you! Xoxo ❤️

Have we mentioned all of the cool things our AMS alumni continue to accomplish? For example, Dr. Laura Crawley has just been named the 16th president at Bethany College! We are so proud. 🥲❤️

Some more WONDERFUL news! PhD student Rivers Liu completed and submitted their masters thesis titled “Heaven is Destroying Me: On Archives, Mourning, and Chinese Subjecthood in El Paso at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Please join us in congratulating them! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽 #hookem

Please join us in congratulating her on passing her oral exams! She is officially an expert in her field & one step closer to the finish line! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽 #hookem

We’re flying, Jack, because it’s official! Bahar Tahamtani is OFFICIALLY a DOCTOR! Join us in celebrating this huge milestone! ✨

We are NOT clowning around when we say we are super proud of the newly minted DOCTOR Whitney May! ✨🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽✨

Join us in celebrating PhD student Colleen Small! Her essay, “FREE SPEECH FOR SALE: HOW THE FRANCHISE GOD CHILLS FREE SPEECH ON PUBLIC UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES,” won first place in the Free Speech Essay Contest sponsored by the Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center at UT Law School.

P join us in congratulating DOCTOR Taylor Johnson Karahan! We are so proud of you, Taylor! ✨🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽✨

So proud of Dr. Lauren Gutterman & PhD Candidate Hartlyn Haynes! 🥹❤️

Welcome to candidacy, Odalis! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

Don’t forget this is happening today at 11:30 at the @ransomcenter 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

Check out our Winter 2025 Newsletter, you won’t regret it! heyzine.com/flip-book/5016…

Meet us THIS Friday (1/24) at the @ransomcenter for our first workshop of the semester with Dr. Steve Hoelscher at 11:30am. Dr. Hoelscher is going to discuss the work of Ansel Adams & what exactly goes in to the curation of a museum exhibit. See you there! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

welcome back, longhorns! you know where to find us so come say hi! 🤘🏽

Are you ready for our last AMS Workshop of the semester? We aren’t 😪 BUT!!! We are hyped to have Dr. Nicole Ramsey of @LatinostudiesUT present their research on Friday, December 6! Please, join us! It’ll be a really good time! ❤️

The next AMS Workshop is on Nov. 1 ft @UTAnthropology Dr. Marina Peterson. This WS will focus on the flooding that occurred in Los Angeles in February of 1978 following the launch of LA’s cloud seeding program. Please join us to learn more about this super interesting topic!