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Course Listing for AMERICAN STUDIES - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Dist
3403	AMST-116-01	Intro AMST Political Economy	1.00	SEM	Camp,Jordan T.	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		NOTE: 11 seats reserved for first year students, 3 for sophomores. If you are a rising junior or senior and have not yet taken AMST 116, please contact the professor to be enrolled in this course.
		This course introduces key questions, frameworks, and methodologies of American Studies through the lens of political economy. This perspective analyzes power at the intersections of economics, politics, and culture. The course begins by examining competing theories about the political economy of U.S. capitalism. Students will carefully read core texts throughout the semester about topics such as: capital, class, colonialism, climate change, gender, gentrification, immigration, poverty, space, the state, social reproduction, and war. By the end of the course, students will have developed a method for understanding how political economy enables American Studies scholars to comprehend challenges in and beyond the territorial boundaries of the United States.
2867	AMST-202-01	Early America	1.00	LEC	Wickman,Thomas M.	MWF: 10:00AM-10:50AM	TBA	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 10		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-201-01
		NOTE: 3 seats reserved for AMST majors, 5 seats for first-year students, 2 seats for second-year students
		This course introduces students to major developments in the political, economic, social, and environmental history of North America from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. We will study Indigenous sovereignty, European colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, the American Revolution, industrialization, abolitionism, U.S. wars with Native nations, and the U.S. Civil War. Students will be challenged to imagine American history within Atlantic and global contexts, to comprehend the expansiveness of hundreds of Native American homelands, and to center struggles for Black freedom, Indigenous sovereignty, and gender equality.
3054	AMST-204-01	Central Am. Immigration to US	1.00	LEC	Euraque,Dario A	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-204-01
		This course will survey the history of immigration patterns from the five countries of Central America to the U.S. between the early 19th century and the current decade in the context of Latin American history. The countries that will be surveyed are: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The methodological emphasis in the lectures will be comparative.
2911	AMST-209-01	Early African American History	1.00	LEC	Miller,Channon S	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-209-01
		NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students 2 seats for sophomores 2 for AMST majors
		Beginning in the sixteenth century and concluding in the nineteenth - this journey is one dedicated to enslaved Black people. It lends its focus to those who birthed Black America, and how they did so. From their arrival in chains, through their fight towards emancipation, and to the death of reconstruction, the course explores their struggles and triumphs. It not only focuses on the layered mechanisms of anti-Blackness that sustained their bondage, but their development of a "nation within a nation" - with its own ideals and ideologies, as well as traditions and languages. We will lean on the voices of African-Americans from these periods, and scholars who have committed themselves to holding up their lived realities.
2889	AMST-223-01	The Prison & Public Humanities	1.00	LEC	Camp,Jordan T.	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		The United States has the world's largest prison population. This course interrogates the structures and processes that have led to this calamitous condition. It introduces students to public humanities approaches to understanding the problem of mass incarceration. It prepares students for engaged public intellectual work in oral history, journalism, and social justice advocacy, among other creative applications. Through readings, lectures, and original research, students will acquire an inventory of concepts, including: systemic racism, the carceral state, policing, and security. Throughout the course, we will ask: How have carceral resolutions of social and economic crisis been legitimated? How have public humanities scholars challenged dominant definitions of mass incarceration? Together, we will explore the dimensions of the problem and what ethical and political alternatives might be possible.
2995	AMST-233-01	Whiteness in American History	1.00	LEC	Staff,Trinity	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 24		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-233-01
		This introductory course delves into the origins, development, and impact of Whiteness as a racial category. Through thought-provoking readings and discussions, it explores how White identity has evolved over time, examining both its historical roots and theoretical frameworks. Beyond unpacking the concept of Whiteness itself, the course investigates its crucial role in shaping race and class dynamics in American history.
3372	AMST-268-01	Black Inner Lives	1.00	SEM	Miller,Channon S	TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA	HUIP
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-268-01
		Prevailing understandings of Black life, read Black expression through a social, public lens. Their cultures, embodiments, and ideologies are often cast as responses to institutions and forms of protest. Often placed in conversation with worlds outside of themselves and their communities, they are cast as either disrupting a space, or transforming it. But what of Black life outside of public expression? This course complicates our conceptions of Black culture by tracing the inner lives of Black Americans. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and drawing from multidisciplinary works - we will trace their aspirations, longings, imaginations, as well as their fears, across race, gender, class, and time. With an emphasis on the intimate, we will redefine our sense of Black people's relationship to resistance.
2956	AMST-271-01	Anthropology of Museums	1.00	LEC	Guzman,Amanda J.	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with CLIC				Cross-listing: ANTH-271-01
		From children's movie backdrops to contemporary news headlines, museums continue to capture our public attention as cultural spaces of fantastical object storytelling and contested object ownership. What might the future of the (re)making of museum spaces tell us about the future of our relationships to social institutions and how we remember the past? We will shift between lenses of research and practice to consider issues of community engagement, digitization, and climate resiliency. We will materially trace and analyze the complex, often difficult historical legacies of these cultural institutions from a global case-study perspective. We will explore the diverse ways in which museums are being called on today to re-imagine the work that they do and the stories that they tell.
2873	AMST-285-01	Born in Blood	1.00	LEC	Gac,Scott	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA	HUM
		Enrollment limited to 49		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-285-01
		This course explores the formations and functions of violence in the United States from 1754 to 1900. It investigates government (federal, state, and local) and individuals-and the intersection of the government and the individual-regarding military bodies, access to weapons, and legal and extralegal violent activities. Using figures from the well-known (George Washington or Abraham Lincoln) to the lesser known (Hannah Dustan or Robert Smalls), the class questions the limits and boundaries of American violence according to race, class, and gender. In the end, students will debate whether violence belongs aside liberty, democracy, freedom, and equality in the pantheon of American political and cultural ideals.