No Longer Just ‘Hyphenated’: The New ‘American’ Conversation

Seed Grant Semester Awarded
Fall
Seed Grant Award Year
2019

As we approach 2020, our sense of what it is to be an “American” is unraveling. Both in the U.S. and abroad, the contours of “American-ness” are under question. This interdisciplinary, collaborative project seeks to build the foundation for a large scale project on The New American Conversation. 

This new conversation is designed to help us understand the meanings and definitions of American-ness, and to generate new dialogues around questions on American-ness, inside and outside of the U.S.

The project engages with the questions and the conversation through three interventions: discursive, programmatic and epistemic. It looks at how students and faculty are thinking, teaching and otherwise engaging with the concept of American-ness.

Principal Investigator(s)

Pardis Mahdavi | Professor and Director | School of Social Transformation

Lois Brown | Professor and Center Director | Center for the Study of Race and Democracy