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Strategic Direction from the President (Bloomsbury Academic) is a series of case studies on US foreign policy spanning one hundred years, 1915-2015. The purpose is to test the coherence of public statements from the American president, who is communicator-in-chief as well as commander-in-chief.
Each year, BAAS offers a variety of awards, prizes, teaching assistantships, and research assistant awards, supporting the development of American studies in Britain. The 2027 Awards are now open to submissions. Descriptions of our awards can be found on the BAAS Awards web page, with more detail on the submission requirements. The deadline for the BAAS Book Prize and the Peter Boyle MA Graduate Assistantship is 17 December 2026 and the deadline for all other awards and prizes is 14 January 2027
Teaching American Studies in Britain: Perspectives and Possibilities (ed. Megan Hunt and Lydia Plath) is out now! Purchase, read open access, or come to one of our launch events.
Join Research Fellow Carmen Andall-Woodroofe for a recipe zine-making workshop that unearths food histories in Britain’s former Caribbean colonies. In this workshop you will hear stories of enslaved communities’ resistance against food insecurity at the hands of plantation owners told through key records at the British Library.
On Friday 30 October at 6pm at the Charterhouse in London, Rev’d Professor Maggi Dawn (Diocese of Rhode Island; formerly Cambridge, Yale, Durham) explores the legacy of former scholar Roger Williams. The lecture traces how his radical 17th-century English political ideas reshaped early American governance, examining his arguments for separating church and state and their civic echoes 250 years after the Declaration of Independence.
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from April 5-9, 2027. The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback.
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