American Studies
libarts.wsu.edu/amerst
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Degrees offered
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M.A., Ph.D.
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Faculty working with students
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35
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Students
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42
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Students receiving assistantships or
scholarships
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90%
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Priority deadline
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Fall - January 10
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Campuses
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Pullman
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Tests required
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TOEFL or IELTS
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Admission Requirements
To apply to the American studies program, send to
the Graduate School:
- An official application form and
official college transcripts sent directly from
each institution attended.
Send to the American studies program:
- A 3 to 5 page statement of purpose
describing your areas of interest and why the
American studies program at WSU is a good place
for you to pursue them (also mention any foreign
language preparation and any teaching experience
if you are applying for a teaching
assistantship).
- A recent sample of your scholarly or
critical writing (15–20 pages).
- Non-native speakers of English who
seek teaching assistantships must submit an
audiocassette with a two-minute sample of
improvised conversation demonstrating their
abilities with spoken English.
Program Description
American studies use interdisciplinary approaches
to the study of the United States as a
multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural
society, embedded in transnational forces. The
program has especially strong ties to our
comparative ethnic studies and women’s
studies departments, as well as longstanding ties
to the history and English departments. We also
work with faculty in anthropology, communication,
digital technology and culture, education, fine
arts, philosophy, political science, and
sociology. In addition to the American studies
courses, we coordinate faculty and courses from
these departments, and draw them together in
rigorous interdisciplinary synthesis. The program
offers a broad array of possibilities, with
strengths in ethnic studies, feminist studies,
multicultural American West, environmental
cultural studies of race, class, gender,
sexuality and empire, popular culture, social
movements, activist research, labor history, and
cyberculture studies.
Faculty Interests
and Course Details
Contact Information
Jean
Wiegand
Washington State University
PO Box 644013
Pullman, WA 99164-4013
Telephone: 509-335-1560
Fax: 509-335-8338
E-mail: wiegandj@wsu.edu
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