• Shawn Layden, '83

    "There is a breadth of knowledge, and an understanding of divergent viewpoints, that the American Studies program provides. It provokes your thinking and challenges your biases. Best choice I ever made."

    Shawn Layden, '83 President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment America

  • Bailey Kendall

    "I am so grateful to the Department of American Studies for making me a powerful writer, active citizen, and all-around better person. You can't get this kind of education anywhere else."

    Bailey Kendall Class of 2019, American Studies and Economics Major

  • Jason Ruiz

    Professor Ruiz is the recipient of the 2019 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is bestowed annually on a faculy member in the College of Arts and Letters. This award recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated sustained excellence in teaching, informed by research, over a wide range of courses while employing innovative and creative teaching methods.

    Jason Ruiz Associate Professor of American Studies
Journalism Minor

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.