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Jamestowne Field Trip Draft 1 happy draft Honest Abe Proposal Jamestowne Flag . Previous Next  Play Slideshow Tweets by @GeorgetownAMST Welcome to the American Studies Program website. The goal of this site is to allow students in the American Studies major, faculty, alumni, as well as students interested in the major to access information, get in touch, and learn about the American Studies Program at Georgetown. The website is in development. If you have any questions about American Studies please don't hesitate to email us at amst@georgetown.edu. Congratulations to the American Studies Class of 2015! Congratulations to our 2015 Award Winners: Mary Zost, winner of the Mary Catherine Mita Prize for the best thesis and Nevada Schadler, winner of the Joseph T. Durkin Prize for contribution to the program! We'd like to share some highlights from our most recent American Studies newsletter. Please feel free to download our Spring 2014 newsletter here to read the complete articles as well as others. Letter from the Director Comments from the American Studies Program Director, Dr. Matthew Tinkcom “People don’t realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.” - Saul Bellow Dear Friends of American Studies at Georgetown: I’m delighted to write to you as the Director of American Studies at Georgetown. My predecessor, Professor Diana Owen, took a well-earned research sabbatical for the academic year and I am delighted to have been asked by Dean Chester Gillis to oversee the program. If we haven’t met, please allow me to introduce myself. I am a faculty member in the Communication, Culture, and Technology program and have had the privilege to teach students across the University — in the College, the School of Foreign Service and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences — as well as having served as a Dean at our newest campus n the Arabian Peninsula in Doha, Qatar. I have called Georgetown home since 1996 and am excited to begin a new year on the Hilltop. My areas of research center on the history of the moving image - cinema, television, video and internet - in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and thus I come to interdisciplinary nature of the American Studies program with great enthusiasm from my own research and teaching. Read more from Dr. Tinkcom’s letter on the first page of our Spring 2014 newsletter. A Portrait of this Student as a Work in Progress, Dr. Hugh Cloke: I began my career in Jesuit education fifty five years ago at Xavier High School in New York City. Although much of high school was forgettable, one abiding memory is of the interest our teachers took in us as young persons filled with potential. At the time we were too immature to perceive this as anything more than flattery, but my repetition of the experience in college at Fordham finally caught my attention and I began to take myself seriously. At Georgetown I discovered yet again this hallmark of Jesuit education (they call it cure personals, but I prefer to think of it as “taking an interest”). In the company of the faculty of the American Studies Program and from the perspective of my recent retirement I would like to reflect on both the past and future of the Program and what the work we do matters to the College. Read more of Dean Cloke’s reflections on page 2 of our Spring 2014 newsletter. Teaching Curiosity: Pigs, Backpacks, Bookends, and Threads, Professor Erika Seamon Before I began teaching American Civilization I and II, I had the pleasure of working closely with High Cloke and Beth McKeown for over a year to get a sense of their unique approach to these important introductory courses for American Studies majors. I discover that what makes professors like Cloke and McKeown so effective is that they teach a way of thinking. How can we teach our students to be curious and offer them the tools to pursue their interests? Pigs, backpacks, bookends, and threads are a great start. I make these the core aspects of CIV I and II experience. Read more about Professor Seamon’s CIV I and II classes, pigs, backpacks, bookends, and threads on page 3 and 4 of our Spring 2014 newsletter. Civil War and Memory: An American Studies Student Perspective, Mary Zost and Alison Ku: As all American Studies scholars are acutely aware, there are endless questions about how our collective memories of historical events, people, and ideas are shaped. In seeking answers to these questions, a whole litany of questions emerge when we discover the the creation of narrative that shape our collective memory sometimes has more to do with the present than with the past it seeks to represent. In our American Civilization II class, taught by Professor Erika Seamon, intimate engagement with the past and how it resonates in our collective memory was a recurring theme. Read more about Mary and Alison’s perspectives from CIV II on page 3 of our Spring 2014 newsletter.