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Department of American Studies
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Introduction:
American Studies at Cal State Fullerton is an
independent department which takes as its primary subject American
culture in its historical development. Courses cover a wide
range of interdisciplinary topics, including gender studies,
cultural diversity, popular culture, regionalism, law and society,
expressive forms, and the history of ideas. |
Recent news:
- Meet the new American Studies MA cohort!
Bottom row, left to right: David Donley, Jose Zamora
Second row, left to right: Sukeinah Kassir, Lorena Romero, Greg Rozsa, Diann Rozsa, Lisa Dresback, Monica Duboski. Yuhi Miyazato (from the 2010 cohort).
Third row, left to right: Casey Ratto, Jed Kuhn, John Ciulik, Walter Santizo, Nick Catt, Joseph Meyer, Patrick Heyer.
Not pictured: Paul Betancourt, Courtney Brown.
- Weaver Prize Announcement: The Prize Committee is pleased to announce the winner of this year’s competition for the Earl James Weaver Graduate Essay Prize for the best paper submitted by a graduate student. This year’s competition was very close, for an unusually large number of outstanding papers were submitted for consideration. The Committee has awarded the 2011 Weaver Prize, with its honorarium of $250, to Patrick Covert for his paper entitled “Politicizing your Mailbox: Extracting Motivation from Bob Mizer’s Physique Pictorial.” Honorable Mention in this competition is awarded to John Carlos Marquez for his paper entitled “Jazz Out West: Dance Halls, Musical Migrations, and the Cultural Landscape of Los Angeles.” The Committee would like to thank all the graduate students who submitted papers for this year’s competition, for we found it a genuine pleasure to read these excellent submissions.
2011 Weaver Prize Award Winner Patrick Covert
- Congratulations to Rahima Schwenkbeck, who was awarded the 2011 CSUF Alumni Association Outstanding Graduate Student Award. This is a impressive achievement, as this award is given to just one CSUF grad student each year. This is also a proud moment for the Department of American Studies, as this is the second year in a row one of our students has received the prize. (American Studies graduate student Paul Saiedi received the award in 2010.) Read more about Rahima and her accomplishments here.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award Winner Rahima Schwenkbeck
- Submit your work now for the 2011-2012 issue of the American Papers!
The American Papers is the journal of the CSUF American Studies Student Association, and we publish the best essays written in American Studies courses at CSUF in the past year. In other words, we publish your best work! This year we will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of our publication, and we are looking for student contributions. So take a look back at your assignments from 2010-2011, choose your best research paper or essay, and submit it to The American Papers for consideration. Find out how to submit here!
- We are pleased to announce that American Studies graduate student Steve Manseau has been awarded the 2010 Giles T. Brown Outstanding Thesis Award for his thesis, “Roll, Truck Roll: A Cultural Appreciation of Trucker Music, America’s Last Working Canon.” Click here to read a summary of his thesis.
2010 Outstanding Thesis Award Winner Steve Manseau
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For more information on the CSUF Department of American Studies:
For more information about the department or the graduate program, see phone numbers and e-mail addresses on the contact page. |
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