American Studies at UT Austin

We have missed you all! Here’s to another semester!

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

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. 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/AMS.SPRING.25

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. 🥲❤️

Professor Peniel Joseph's latest book, 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 1963 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢'𝘴 𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, will be published by Hachette on May 13.
🔗Preorder: https://bit.ly/FreedomSzn

🔗Book Launch: https://bit.ly/JosephBookLaunch

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! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

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! 🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽

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

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! ✨🤘🏽🤠🤘🏽✨