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Latest News and Events

    Summer 2024 BAAS Newsletter

    The latest edition of the BAAS Schools Newsletter is now available. It sees leading scholars and teachers in American Studies share their latest research and teaching ideas, including contributions from: Professor Robert Mason (Edinburgh), Professor Jonathan Bell (UCL), Professor Iwan Morgan (UCL), Dr Rebecca Stone (Warwick), Dr Henry Knight Lozano (Exeter) and Dr Ed Sugden (King's College London).

    New book – The Founder’s Curse (Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 9781421448886)

    How James Monroe, fifth President of the United States, impacted the rise, fall, and rebirth of political parties in the early American republic.

    VACANCY: BAAS Awards Administrator

    An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the BAAS team. We are seeking to appoint someone with experience of administration and excellent organisational skills to support the annual BAAS Awards cycle and the BAAS Awards Chair.

    The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology, and Intrusion by Iván Chaar López

    Iván Chaar López argues that the United States uses a combination of drone, surveillance, and informational technologies to protect the US-Mexico border in ways that mark border crossers as racialized others that must be policed.

    Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin by Sergio M. González

    Perceptive and original, Strangers No Longer reframes the history of Latinos in Wisconsin by revealing religion’s central role in the settlement experience of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.

    The Apathy of Empire: Cambodia in American Geopolitics by James A. Tyner

    What America’s intervention in Cambodia during the Vietnam War reveals about Cold War–era U.S. national security strategy.

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