American Studies Blends the Global and the Local
Boston University’s American & New England Studies Program launched in 1972 as an interdisciplinary lens on America’s culture and past, with faculty from departments in history, English, art history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, political science, and musicology. But for decades, the mostly PhD-granting program, with a sprinkling of undergraduate majors, has seen its students’ New England focus diminish.
So it recently pared its name to American Studies.
To read more, visit BU Today where this article originally appeared on September 15 2025.