Student Recognition

Nathaly Martinez ‘24 (American Studies Major and Computer Science Minor) won the 2024 Patrick J. Durkin ’79 Public Service Leadership Award.

Upcoming Events

  • Slavery, Abolition, and the Antebellum Origins of Modern Business Ethics

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents “Slavery, Abolition, and the Antebellum Origins of Modern Business Ethics” with Seth Rockman, the George L. Littlefield Professor of American History and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Brown University.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

  • Axinn Center Commencement 2026 Departmental Reception

    Please join the departments of American Studies, Classics and Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Film and Media Culture, History, Literary Studies, and Religion for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines.

    The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

    English | AXN 232 | 3:30-4:15 pm

    Religion | AXN 220 | 3:30-4:15 pm

    History | Abernethy Room (AXN 221) | 3:30-5:00 pm

    Film and Media Culture | AXN 229 | 3:30-5:30 pm

    American Studies | American Studies Conference Room | 4:45-5:30 pm

    Classics and Classical Studies, Comparative Literature, Literary Studies | AXN 232 | 4:45-5:30 pm

    Axinn Center

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Congratulations to Prof. Ellery Foutch

The American Studies Program congratulates Prof. Ellery Foutch on her new article that was published in Panorama - the Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. The article is called “Iconoclasm on Paper: Resistance in the Pages of Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, 1849.” The work links to her Spring 2015 course at Middlebury: The American Civil War in Art and Visual Culture, Present.

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Nathaly Martinez ‘24, will intern in inaugural Immigration Advocacy Internship

Nathaly Martinez ‘24, American Studies major, will participate in the inaugural Immigration Advocacy Internship Cohort program. She will be interning at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center

This funded internship program was designed by recent alumni Olivia O’Brien ’21.5 and Alex Burns ’21.5 and will be funded this summer through Provost’s Council funding. She will join five other Summer 2022 interns who will be doing work related to immigration in the U.S.