News & Events

"Rings of Dissent is a knock-out! A masterful collection that rightly recenters boxing at the center of the American story and struggles to retell it. Passionate and smart, it reinvigorates the study of sport, bringing voices and visions from beyond the academy to speak on the entanglements of power, performance, and possibility." —C. Richard King, author of Redskins: Insult and Brand

“Sweatshop Capital traces the historical throughline of antisweatshop activism to demonstrate that this history has much to teach us about contemporary manifestations of sweated labor and our collective efforts to challenge worker exploitation. Beth Robinson mines valuable lessons from both the successes and failures of feminist activism to powerfully remind us that feminism has made important contributions to labor history.” - Mary Margaret Fonow, author of Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

“Neagle’s book offers much-needed context for the war on terror, particularly by linking American ideas about irregular warfare to US interventions in Latin America. A must-read for students of terrorism, US–Latin American relations, and US military history.” —Joseph Stieb, author of The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990–2003

The event is part of 'America Now!', a series of live events exploring the current state of the USA and its place in the world. In a world of hot takes these discussions offer some much-needed deep dives, giving expert insight into some of the most pressing or peculiar aspects of modern American life – from the Supreme Court to Cowboy Carter, and from the politics of the White House to the politics of The White Lotus.

*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.