Ethnic Studies at Brown

09/24/2026

Join us this year for our annual Tam Tran lecture series, featuring Greg Grandin from Yale!

09/16/2026

Tomorrow!

09/04/2026

American Studies is hiring!

The Department of American Studies at Brown University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of American Studies, with a focus on Black and/or Latinx expressive culture. We particularly encourage applications from scholars working at the intersection of these fields. We seek a scholar with expertise in expressive culture, conceived broadly to include literature, visual and material culture, and/or performing arts, with a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Secondary specializations in Trans Studies, Disability Studies, Public Humanities, Digital Humanities, and/or Archival Studies would be of great interest. Candidates are expected to develop introductory courses that contribute to the American Studies and Ethnic Studies undergraduate curricula.

Please share widely and if interested, apply here!

10/21/2025

Join us in Nicholson House on October 29th and 30th for our annual Tam Tran Distinguished Lecture Series with this year’s guest speaker, Kaiama Glover!

04/03/2025

Join us in Nicholson House on April 8th and 9th for our annual Tam Tran Distinguished Lecture Series with this year’s guest speaker, Ana Raquel Minian

02/06/2025

Congratulations to Matthew Guterl for his new appointment as Brown’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion!🎉

Read more details here: https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-02-06/guterl

05/08/2024

Congratulations to Elena Shih for winning the Meenakshi Narain Excellence in Research Mentoring Award! This award recognizes Brown faculty "who have shown exceptional commitment in mentoring undergraduate researchers, as well as for their promotion, encouragement, and training of diverse students in undergraduate research." We all know it is well deserved!!!

05/08/2024

Congratulations to Professor Kevin Escudero for winning a Salomon Faculty Research Award *and* an Early Career Research Achievement Award from Brown's OVPR!

2024 Research Achievement Award Winners Brown University's researchers are making a significant impact in the world by advancing knowledge through their achievements, discoveries, and contributions. Every year, distinguished Brown scholars are nominated for Research Achievement Awards by their colle...

04/12/2024

Huge congratulations to Professor Matt Guterl on being named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in the area of Intellectual & Cultural History!

https://www.gf.org/announcements/

04/11/2024

We are thrilled to announce two new faculty hires specializing in Native American expressive culture. Brandi Bushman and Jessica Fremland will be joining the department this summer, holding Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellowships before becoming tenure-track Assistant Professors in 2026. Jessica Fremland (Wahpetunwan Dakota) is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at UCLA. Brandi Bushman is a PhD candidate in English at Princeton University and an enrolled member of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians, a federally recognized tribe in California.