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Selected as the winner of the 2021 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award — the College’s highest teaching honor.
Kathy Cummings 2021 Sheedy Award
English and American Studies, English teaching assistantship to Belgium
Theresa Azemar AMST Class of 2021 Fulbright Grant
American Studies, English teaching assistantship to Montenegro
Caroline Freeman AMST Class of 2021 Fulbright Grant

The Department of American Studies presents "From Slave Cabins to the White House" by Koritha Mitchell. Join us to examine homemade citizenship in African American culture.

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If our lives in education have any significance, it will be in our reading the signs of the times and in educating the young of our times in the visions and values that will civilize and make for reasonable human progress and lasting peace on earth.
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.

The Department of American Studies acknowledges its presence on the traditional homelands of Native peoples including the Haudenosauneega, Miami, Peoria, and particularly the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik / Pokagon Potawatomi, who have been using this land for education for many hundreds of years and continue to do so.

The Department of American Studies presents "From Slave Cabins to the White House" by Koritha Mitchell. Join us to examine homemade citizenship in African American culture.

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2021 Sheedy Award - Kathleen Sprows Cummings

The Second Issue of Americana

Join Koritha Mitchell on From Slave Cabins to the White House