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*Deadline extended to Friday 16 January 2026* The Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) is thrilled to announce that this year’s Ellen Craft Essay Prize is now open for submissions. The Ellen Craft Essay Prize is intended to help to promote, encourage and share the study of marginalised voices in American Studies at the postgraduate and early career levels. It hopes, in a small way, to answer some of the current issues facing American Studies scholarship within the UK both in subject matter and participants.

ECR and PGR applications are open for the 2026 International Summer Institute held at the University of West Indies Cave Hill campus in Barbados, 25-30 May 2026, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and University of Alberta. Full details are available at https://le.ac.uk/cssah/uwi-summer-school with a deadline of 5 January 2026.

"Timely and empowering, A Black Woman for President makes a significant addition to the literature and adds a new dimension to the study of Black female politicians." - Mia Moody-Ramirez, professor and chair, Department of Journalism, Public Relations & New Media, Baylor University

"While the achievements of cultural diplomacy are difficult to assess, Smith reminds us that it is another means of engaging Americans and convincing them that Canada is an autonomous nation with its own culture beyond beavers, health care, and poutine. Artists can help share our story in ways that supersede the almighty dollar — as truth tellers who reveal the complexity of what it means to be Canadian." - Tim Cook, Literary Review of Canada

"The title of Whitney Martinko’s book, Historic Real Estate, is deceptively modest...Martinko’s gaze encompasses nothing less than the shaping of American institutions of civil society and political economy...This is a cultural history, not a legal, political, or economic one; it makes a case for the salience of culture and capitalism in shaping one another."—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

"Giuseppe Paparella has produced a stimulating and significant book. Ambitious in scope and based on an impressive amount of research, this book examines a series of key moments spanning seventy-five years to cogently show how four very different presidents' national beliefs shaped their policy toward the Asia Pacific region. A must-read for both historians and theorists." —Steven Casey, London School of Economics