Check out the piece I wrote in the Washington Post! “The history of beauty pageants reveals the limits of Black representation” washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/0…

We are lucky that the Southeastern American Studies Conference this year is nearby, in Birmingham! Come stop by our table and check out the selection. Got an #AmericanStudies project? See how you can contact Kristen Hop here: bit.ly/3ClBkK7 #SASA #SASA2022

“The imaginative ideology of white supremacy is always manifested in schools.” With thanks to Imani Perry & participants in the SASA colloquy for a rich discussion and inspiring us to think about whether “reading is supposed to be the work” for us and our students SASA

Looking forward to reflecting on student projects and the Tweet Generation. (Yes, tweeting about a conference paper on tweeting youths). #sasa2022

4C. #MeToo, Social Media Activism, and Pedagogy panel today at #SASA2022

Congratulations to Dennis Moore for earning the Lynne Adrian Service award at #SASA2022 (here with Dr. Alisha Gaines)

Thank you to The University of Alabama Press for being at and supporting #SASA2022 !

#SASA2022 !!

This was a great Colloquy with Imani Perry centered around her book More Beautiful and More Terrible ⁦NYU Press⁩ at #SASA2022 ⁦Imani Perry⁩ ⁦Andra Gillespie⁩ Thadious Davis, ⁦@alishagaines⁩ ⁦DENNIS MOORE⁩ , ⁦@jmjafrx⁩

Still time to join us remotely for #SASA2022. Take a look at the schedule and the registration link at southeasternasa.org -via Whova Event App

Keynote Address by Madeline Hsu, University of Texas happening now at #SASA2022

Honored to receive this year’s SASA Critoph Prize for best paper by a graduate student! Feels great for your work to be well received 🙏🏽❤️

Just released: Here is the LOGO for our book series, #LatinxHistories by ⁦UNC Press⁩!!⁦@DGershenowitz⁩ ⁦Lori frederick⁩ ⁦@adburgosjr⁩ ⁦Geraldo Cadava⁩ ⁦Julio Capó Jr.⁩ ⁦Kaysha Corinealdi⁩ ⁦Maria Cristina Garcia, PhD⁩ ⁦TJG⁩ ⁦Michael Staudenmaier⁩

Our 2023 conference is happening in 2 weeks! We've got fantastic plenary speakers: Mab Segrest, Maurice Hobson, Ellen Griffith Spears and Monte Randall from the College of the Muscogee Nation. You can read more and register here: whova.com/web/Y2dFwZrHeI…

The virtual version of our SASA book exhibit is ready: whova.com/portal/sasac_2…

Postdoctoral researcher, Gaetano Di Tommaso, visited Atlanta last week to present at the 2023 conference of the Southeastern American Studies Association SASA. While there, he was delighted to meet Ellen Griffith Spears, who was one of our visiting professors in 2022.