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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
Samantha Pickette’s Book is Reviewed in Lilith Magazine
AMNESP PhD alum (2022) Samantha Pickette's book Peak TV’s Unapologetic Jewish Woman: Exploring Jewish Female Representation in Contemporary Television Comedy has been… More
Megan LeBarron Named Success/Graduation Coach at Cleveland State University
AMNESP PhD alum, Megan LeBarron '23, has been named the Success/Graduation Coach in the office of Student Success at Cleveland State University. Congratulations, Megan! More