Events

Debate Event

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Lecture: 7 PM, Auditorium

The American Studies Program is sponsoring a lecture by Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine, as the 2009 Russel B. Nye Lecture.

Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos, exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe and brutally remaking our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era.

Free to students, staff, faculty, and the community.
For more information: https://www.msu.edu/user/fernan47/klein.html

Artists of the Great Lakes, 1910-1960

September 2-November 2, 2008
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University

Thirty-seven paintings chronicle life in the upper Midwest in the first part of the 20th Century. Subjects include the waters, land, cities, daily life, industry, history and identity.

News

02/09/2009   
American Studies Teaching and Research Assistantships for 2009-2010

Application Deadline: February 23, 2009; 1/2 time ppointments. Fall/Spring.

  • Teaching Tier 1 writing courses in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures (WRAC)
  • assisting in faculty-taught courses or teaching IAH 207 in Integrative Arts and Humanities (IAH) as part of MSU's undergraduate general education program
  • assisting in faculty-taught courses in English or History
  • teaching undergraduate American studies courses in WRAC
  • Level 1-2  research assistantships in Matrix (matrix.msu.edu) and on the Journal of Popular Culture.

Applications (including to WRAC and IAH) must come through the Program in American Studies. Appointments will be for fall semester only; applicants may be reappointed in the spring. Appointments to IAH 207 will be made in consultation with the Center for Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities, which may interview candidates. Download full details.

Application deadline: Monday, 23 February 2009. Deliver material to Patience Adibe, Program in American Studies, 239 Bessey Hall.

08/27/2008
Lyman Briggs will be hiring graduate students/ABDs/recent PhDs to teach in its programs next year (2009-2010). If you are in the very late stages of your degree program, you may want to look into this opportunity. Contact me for more info.