http://www.ksu-amst.com/index.php/site/ en llands@kennesaw.edu Copyright 2009 2009-07-01T15:38:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/graduate_school_open_house_scheduled_for_august_1_2009/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/graduate_school_open_house_scheduled_for_august_1_2009/#When:15:38:00Z Grad School Open House is Saturday, August 1 from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tour the campus, get your parking pass, your student id, etc. When: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the University Rooms of the Student Center. MA in American Studies (MAST) Program Open House - Where: Room 5074 at the Social ... Time:12:30 pm-2:00 pm Saturday, August 1st Location:Kennesaw State University, Social Science Bld Room 5074 RSVP - 678-797-2504 or cmille72@kennesaw.edu 2009-07-01T15:38:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/spring_2010_admissions_for_mast/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/spring_2010_admissions_for_mast/#When:18:09:01Z The M.A. in AS program announces a Spring 2010 admission cycle for the program.  All application materials are due in the Graduate Admissions office by November 1, 2009. You can find info on how to apply here: http://www.ksu-amst.com/documents/how_do_I_apply.doc The Masters of Arts in American Studies –– drawing from disciplines that include history‚ sociology‚ foreign languages‚ communications‚ business‚ literature and art –– is designed to attract professionals working in local cultural sites such as museums‚ national parks and public history venues and in non−profit and corporate organizations whose programs reach diverse audiences in the U.S. and abroad. The degree also targets high school teachers who want to focus their graduate studies in the humanities rather than on pedagogy‚ as well as students from abroad interested in studying American culture.  2009-05-28T18:09:01-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/apply_for_gra/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/apply_for_gra/#When:22:17:00Z Students who have applied to the MA in American Studies (MAST) program for this coming year are invited to apply for our Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) program.  Besides offering a tuition waiver and a stipend, this is a great opportunity to work on AS-related projects and build your portfolio. A Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) is a learning opportunity for MA in American Studies (MAST) students which supports professionalism in the context of the program and provides financial support.  A MAST GRA works with one or more faculty members on projects related to the faculty member’s research, public scholarship, university or professional service, or teaching.  For more information, see the Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) link on the AMST website. 2009-05-13T22:17:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/deadline2_fall2009/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/deadline2_fall2009/#When:23:35:00Z The M.A. in AS program announces a second deadline for Fall 2009 admission to the program.  All application materials are due in the Graduate Admissions office by May 1. You can find info on how to apply here: http://www.ksu-amst.com/documents/how_do_I_apply.doc The Masters of Arts in American Studies –– drawing from disciplines that include history‚ sociology‚ foreign languages‚ communications‚ business‚ literature and art –– is designed to attract professionals working in local cultural sites such as museums‚ national parks and public history venues and in non−profit and corporate organizations whose programs reach diverse audiences in the U.S. and abroad. The degree also targets high school teachers who want to focus their graduate studies in the humanities rather than on pedagogy‚ as well as students from abroad interested in studying American culture.  2009-03-24T23:35:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/business_culture_and_society_series_2009_2010_the_global_consumer/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/business_culture_and_society_series_2009_2010_the_global_consumer/#When:03:37:01Z Featuring programs on topics ranging from salsa music to Bollywood Cinema to advertising in the global marketplace, Kennesaw State University’s annual Business, Culture, and Society series will revolve around “The Global Consumer” theme during the 2009-2010 school year. As one of several co-sponsors of the cross-campus interdisciplinary series, the American Studies Program will launch “The Global Consumer” in September and October 2009 with events organized by American Studies faculty.  Although it has Caribbean roots, salsa has evolved into a music and dance phenomenon from New York to Tokyo. An examination of the music’s global significance will serve as a vibrant introduction to important series themes such as cultural cross-fertilization in artistic production and leisure activities. Our program on salsa will feature a lecture and class visits by Marisol Berríos-Miranda, an ethnomusicologist from the University of Washington. Berríos-Miranda co-curated the museum exhibit, “American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music,” which originated at Experience Music Project in Seattle and is currently on view at the Miami Museum of Science. She also contributed to the important anthologies, Situating Salsa: Global Markets and Local Meanings in Latin Popular Music, and Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America. Our program on salsa will culminate with a concert and dance, tentatively scheduled for Sept. 17, 2009. “Bollywood” may be most familiar these days for its association with the recent Academy- Award-winning film, Slumdog Millionaire.  But “Bollywood” is one of the main channels through which India has been globalizing, drawing from elements of other societies’ popular cultures while also sending out products reflecting those exchanges. Coming to KSU in mid-October 2009 to help us understand these processes will be Sangita Gopal, who teaches courses on film and literature at the University of Oregon. Gopal recently co-edited Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance, which traces the influence of the Bollywood aesthetic around the world. She has also published articles on cultural exchange in cyberspace, and is currently writing a book entitled Post-Nuptial Contracts: Conjugality and Nationalism in South Asian Literature and Film. The Business, Culture, and Society series, “The Global Consumer,” will continue throughout the school year with programs on consumption and technological change, global discrepancies in health care, and advertising in a globalizing world, among other topics.  2009-03-12T03:37:01-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/board_of_regents_approves_master_of_arts_in_american_studies_at_ksu/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/board_of_regents_approves_master_of_arts_in_american_studies_at_ksu/#When:17:17:00Z In fall 2009, Kennesaw State will start offering a new Master of Arts in American Studies‚ an interdisciplinary degree designed to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse work force in northwest Georgia. The new degree‚ approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia at its Nov. 10 meeting‚ brings to 21 the number of master’s−level programs offered at Kennesaw State. KSU is the only university in the USG to offer such a degree. The Masters of Arts in American Studies –– drawing from disciplines that include history‚ sociology‚ foreign languages‚ communications‚ business‚ literature and art –– is designed to attract professionals working in local cultural sites such as museums‚ national parks and public history venues and in non−profit and corporate organizations whose programs reach diverse audiences in the U.S. and abroad. The degree also targets high school teachers who want to focus their graduate studies in the humanities rather than on pedagogy‚ as well as students from abroad interested in studying American culture. See the KSU news releases here. 2008-12-07T17:17:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/elledge_wins_award/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/elledge_wins_award/#When:17:14:00Z Last June, Jim Elledge’s A History of My Tattoo, a book-length poem, won the 2006 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry and the Lambda Award for Best Gay Poetry in 2006. The “Lammie” is awarded to books published throughout the U.S. It was also a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for gay poets, sponsored by the Publishing Triangle. He read a section from the book at the Decatur Book Festival in September. A History of My Tattoo is anchored in that moment of history when the lives of Vietnam vets and the juggernaut of HIV/AIDS intersected. During the summer, he spent two weeks at the University of Chicago on a CETL grant, conducting research on gay life in the Windy City from approximately 1890 to 1930 for his critical biography of outsider artist/novelist Henry Darger. Elledge is Professor of English, Director of the Professional Writing Program, and an American Studies Program Affiliate. 2008-08-22T17:14:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/american_studies_program_affiliates_funded_by_cetl/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/american_studies_program_affiliates_funded_by_cetl/#When:21:37:00Z This was an award-winning year for American Studies program affiliates.  In Spring 2008, KSU’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning funded work by Professor of English Linda Niemann, Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Ernesto Silva, and Associate Professor of History LeeAnn Lands. Niemann’s award will allow her to spend Fall 2008 completing her third book, entitled Railroad Noir: Railroading at the End of the Century in the American West.  Silva’s project, “Global and Local Perspectives between the US and Chile: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Environment and Culture” will involve four undergraduates in comparing American and Chilean perspectives on environment, geography, and culture.  Silva, co-investigator Nancy Hoalst-Pullen (Geography and Anthropology), and the four undergraduate researchers will visit Chile in July 2008.  Lands will work with four to eight undergraduate researchers investigating housing landscapes in metropolitan Atlanta in Summer and Fall 2008. 2008-04-29T21:37:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/ed_chan_spends_a_year_as_guest_professor_at_kobe_college/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/ed_chan_spends_a_year_as_guest_professor_at_kobe_college/#When:21:28:00Z American Studies program-affiliate Ed Chan will spend the next year as the endowed Drake Guest Professor in Comparative Literature at Kobe College in Japan.  Chan plans to use film, literature and television in his classes to explore cultural exchanges between Japan and the U.S..  In and outside of his classes, Chan will be asking students to write about, explore, and analyze the way they see American culture. Chan sees the position as helping to fulfill KSU’s “Get Global” initiative, part of a larger project to enhance global learning opportunities. 2008-04-29T21:28:00-05:00 http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/gilbert_g_gonzalez_offered_reflections_on_a_century_of_mexican_migration/ http://amst.hss.kennesaw.edu/index.php/site/gilbert_g_gonzalez_offered_reflections_on_a_century_of_mexican_migration/#When:12:01:00Z Noted scholar Gilbert G. Gonzalez, author of “Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States,” offered reflections on a century of Mexican migration to students and faculty on April 3rd and 4th.  A professor of social science and head of the University of California-Irvine’s Chicano Studies Program, Gonzalez’s published works include the books Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?: Mexican Labor Migration to the United States; Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930; and Chicano Education During the Era of Segregation. In the two sessions at KSU, Gonzalez highlighted the often overlooked Bracero program, the U.S.-Mexico partnership in which more than 4 million Mexican farm laborers came to work in American fields during World War II to ease purported agricultural labor shortages.  Gonzalez pointed out that the Bracero program and recently proposed guest worker programs mirror patterns of other colonial nations in the world. The sessions were sponsored by KSU’s Shaw Chair of Business and Economic History, American Studies Program and the A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service and Research.  2008-04-14T12:01:00-05:00