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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
Awarded a NEH Fellowship for further research in Turkey, in support of the completion of her new book on the international history of comparisons made between Turkey and Iran.
Professor Perin Gurel AMST Professor Receives NEH Fellowship
Featured in a recent ND Works article entitled, "A greener day starts in the kitchen" on lessons on sustainable living. ND AMST '17
Caitlin Jacobs ND AMST '17 Sustainability Program Manager

The American Studies Department Fundraiser in Celebration of Notre Dame Day 2022

The University of Notre Dame's American Studies Department is honored to share with our gracious community the opportunity to donate to our department during this year's Notre Dame Day 2022. All proceeds from your generosity will be put towards the heart of our program, the students, to continue in providing them a valuable, memorable, and fulfilling academic experience.

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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 American Studies Department Fundraiser in Celebration of Notre Dame Day 2022

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American studies alumna Melinda Henneberger ’80 wins Pulitzer Prize

AMST Talk with Professor Cajka

Tuesday April 20, 2022: American Studies Senior Thesis Presentations