The Department of Ethnic Studies (DES) at the University of Colorado Boulder is dedicated to centering the epistemologies, histories and lived experiences of marginalized communities of color and ...

The Mellema Program in Western American Studies was endowed by Dirk and JoAnn Mellema in 1993. Calvin University hired William Katerberg as its director in 1999. The program is housed in the ...

Engage with the complex and diverse histories that have come to shape both the United States and the Americas. At a time of widespread questioning and debate about America as nation and idea, American ...

As an R1 research university, CU Boulder offers graduate programs that give you access to real-world projects that fuse education with experience. With world-class faculty and cutting-edge research, ...

The object of inquiry in American studies is culture—usefully defined as a society’s “whole way of life”—the sum of the ways a society and its subjects at once understand and remake the world. Taking ...