Sport Studies students Carson Beck, Austin Hanson, and Chloe Peterson, along with faculty member Travis Vogan, participated in a Town Hall with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren on November 1 to discuss some of the crucial issues the conference is facing. They were part of a select group of student chosen from the Big Ten schools to talk with Warren.

Anne Anlin Cheng is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief); Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface; and, most recently, Ornamentalism (which will provide the foundation for this talk). Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture.

Join a virtual presentation by the Career Center on job searches and gap years for American studies and Sport studies students.

American Studies major Bailey Cichon penned op-eds for The Gazette over the summer.

During the summer of 2021 three of our PhD students had the opportunity to work with local locations through the Obermann Center Humanities for Public Good intern program. Learn about their work here.

American Studies assistant Professor Eric Vazquez has an article, "Left Out of Bukele's Bitcoin Decision, Salvadorans Face Deepening Inequality" on the July 9 NACLA website.

Megan Kate (Fritschel) Nelson (PhD 2002) was a finalist for the 2021 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West.

Inspired by the growing popularity of comic book dialogue, literature, and academia, Angelique interviews professor and comic book historian Deborah Elizabeth Whaley. Whaley is the author of Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime, a deep dive into the history (or lack thereof) of Black women’s representation in sequential art. They talk about the importance of scholarship in comics, little-known Black female artists and heroes, and how consumers of color create meaning when engaging with art.

Last month, a firestorm of criticism erupted after players shared images of a single rack of dumbbells and a stack of yoga mats provided for participants in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in San Antonio — a stark contrast to the state-of-the-art, custom-built weight room available to men’s basketball players in Indianapolis. It exposed the blatant double standard in college athletics and renewed demands for reform from female athletes, coaches and even politicians. An often forgotten chapter of college athletics offers hope that such reform is possible.