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AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek Keynote Speaker at New England American Studies Association 2024 Conference
AMNESP Director Joseph Rezek will be the keynote speaker at the New England American Studies Association's 2024 Conference "Revisiting Region: Locating the… More
Dean Lampros Publishes Book Based on Dissertation
AMNESP alum Dean Lampros (PhD '13) has published Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America with Johns Hopkins University Press,… More
Hannah Carlson Publishes Book Based on Dissertation
AMNESP alum Hannah Carlson (PhD '09) has published Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close with Algonquin Books, based… More
Betsy Walters Wins Essay Contest and Has Essay Published in New Review of Film & Television Studies
AMNESP PhD Candidate Betsy Walters won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2023 Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group Graduate Student Essay Contest!… More
Kayli Rideout Selected as a William L. Thompson Collections Fellow
AMNESP PhD Candidate Kayli Rideout was recently selected as a William L. Thompson Collections Fellow by the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.… More
Professor Brooke Blower Publishes Book with Oxford University Press
Associate Professor of History Brooke Blower's new book Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am’s Yankee Clipper… More
Ena Ozaki Exhibition Review Published in Ampersand
AMNESP PhD Candidate Ena Ozaki's exhibition review of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Life Magazine and the Power of Photography" was published… More
Ampersand: An American Studies Journal Releases Summer 2023 Issue
The Summer 2023 issue (Vol II, Issue 2) of Ampersand: An American Studies Journalis out now! The issue, themed "Colonialism's Long Shadow,"… More
Thomas Denenberg Quoted in New York Times
Congratulations to AMNESP PhD alum Thomas Denenberg '01, Director of the Shelburne Museum, who was recently quoted in the New York Times article… More
Haley Wilcox Joins Heritage Consulting Group as Business Development Associate
Haley Wilcox (Preservation Studies MA alum) has recently joined Heritage Consulting Group as their Business Development Associate, a National firm providing guidance for… More