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 The Department of American Studies was the first Department to offer the PhD at the University of New Mexico. We are an integral center of academic research and teaching as well as a vital center for recruitment of diverse undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty American Studies is a formal academic discipline that began more than seventy years ago as the United States was undergoing a series of crises over the meaning of the nation. Then, as now, American Studies has posed critical questions to Americans about the meaning of the United States in a global society. Moreover, UNM’s program, one of the first four programs of American Studies in the nation, has, from the beginning, been a vital source of knowledge about the Southwest and New Mexico in particular. Foremost, among the American Studies Department’s many areas
of distinction in research and teaching are: 1) Transnationalism
and Globalization; 2) Critical Regionalism and Southwest Studies;
3) Critical Race and Class Studies; 4) Environment, Science and
Technology Studies; 5) Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies; and
6) Comparative Cultural and Popular Culture Studies. Students have
the opportunity to develop a comparative and interdisciplinary approach
to historical, literary, visual, and ethnographic theory and methods.
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