Department of 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.
