American Cultural Studies

The Department of American Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary hub for collaborative, creative, and transformative research, teaching, and community outreach. Our teaching and research foster an interdisciplinary approach to the study of United States social and cultural life, history, material culture, literature, politics, art, music, and popular culture in local, national, hemispheric, and global contexts. We provide our students with the critical tools necessary to contribute to the project of transforming the world locally, nationally, and globally.

Our undergraduate and graduate programs educate students interested in addressing entangled modalities of power with the goal of transforming the present for a better future for all. Students in ACS are encouraged to shape their studies around questions that matter to them: questions about environmental and racial justice, labor and economics, social media and power,  immigration and rights, gender and the law, media and politics, Native American history, freedom and war, education and equity, and many more. Our students are prepared for careers in law, public health, education, journalism, public administration, socially engaged business, medicine, marketing, public policy, the creative arts among many others.