Undergraduate Program

University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs

Centre for the Study of the United States

New American Studies Undergraduate Program Academic Advisor

We are pleased to announce that Rachel Gordan is the new Academic Advisor for the American Studies Undergraduate Program, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the United States for the 2014-15 academic year. Dr. Gordan received her Ph.D. from Harvard and her BA from Yale College. She teaches course in American religious history, and is currently working on a book manuscript about post-World War II American Judaism. During the 2014-15 academic year, Dr. Gordan is teaching USA 401H1F: Topics in American Studies: Jews and Religion in America.

Dr. Gordan will be keeping office hours on Tuesdays, 2-5 pm, in Room 326N North House, Munk School of Global Affairs. She can be reached by email anytime at: csus.advisor@utoronto.ca.

Undergraduate Student Events for 2014-15

Please Note: Due to Rosh Hashanah, this event has been rescheduled from Sept. 25th to October 2nd.

Thursday, October 2nd, 4-5:30 pm
Munk School of Global Affairs
Main Lounge, South House, 1 Devonshire Place

American Studies 2013-14 Undergraduate Journal

Launch and Reception

This launch is open to all American Studies students and alumni, and affiliated faculty, by invitation only.
RSVP to: Stella Kyriakakis at csus@utoronto.ca by September 25th.

American Studies Undergraduate Student Society

The American Studies Students Society has recently been formed. The members of the Executive are:

President: Lauren Conway
Vice-President: David Cosolo

Treasurer: Victor Vo
Media Consultant: Kelly Rahardja

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please email us at: uoft.amstudies@gmail.com. We are always happy to hear from members of the American Studies community, and will try to respond as soon as possible.

Past News and Events:

2013-14

May 20-30, 2014
University of Toronto

Summer School in Experimental Social Sciences

Co-oganized by the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; and by the Nuffield College Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at the University of Oxford, UK.

The Nuffield College Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at the University of Oxford, in collaboration with the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, will inaugurate this year a North American Summer School in Experimental Social Sciences. The summer school will offer content, and have a format, that resembles the highly successful Summer School in Experimental Social Sciences that CESS currently offers at Oxford in collaboration with the Essex Methods Summer School. The two-week curriculum is designed to provide students with all of the tools necessary to design and implement experiments along with the skills for analyzing and interpreting experimental results. The CESS-Munk Summer School in Experimental Social Sciences has assembled a group of world-class instructors to teach the different facets of experimental methods. Participants should have a basic background in research design and statistics.

For additional information on this course and registration requirements, please visit the website at:
http://cess-web.nuff.ox.ac.uk/cess-munk-2014/#tab-id-1.

American Studies Major Alex Hill featured in an article in The Varsity

American Studies Major Alex Hll, a University of Toronto Blues Basketball star, was featured in an article in The Varsity on November 4, 2013. To read the article: http://thevarsity.ca/2013/11/04/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-varsity-blue-alex-hill/

Monday, November 25, 2013, 6:00-7:30 pm
Munk School of Global Affairs, room 208N

U.S. Thanksgiving Social

Organized by the CSUS American Studies Students Society, University of Toronto

The CSUS American Studies Students Society has organized a Social to celebrate U.S. Thanksgiving this week. Attendance is by invitation only for American Studies Majors, Minors, and faculty. To RSVP, please email: uoft.amstudies@gmail.com.

2012-13

December 6, 2012, 3:30 pm
Varsity Theatre
Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor St. West

Film Screening:

Lincoln

Organized by the American Studies Students Society, University of Toronto

The American Studies Students Society would like to invite you all to our end of classes event! Come watch Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed movie "Lincoln" with your fellow students at Varsity Theatre (Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor St. West) on December 6th, 2012. The movie screening is at 3:40 pm, and we will be meeting at the theatre 15 minutes prior, so please be on time.

**Tickets are only $5 each for American Studies students and are limited, so please RSVP to: uoft.amstudies@gmail.com, using your UofT email to reserve one ticket.

For further details and questions feel free to send us an email and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Happy studying, and see you all there!

All the best,

Your ASSS Exec team

Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 5-6:30 pm
Room 108N, Munk

American Studies Students Society

General Meeting and Elections

Refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 5-6:30 pm
Room 208N, Munk

American Studies Students Society

Film Screening: Prisonville, USA

This film screening follows a public talk by Brett Story, 4-6 pm, in Room 208N.

Refreshments will be served. Free of charge.

Monday, April 1, 2013, 4:30-7:00 pm
Room 208N, Munk

American Studies Students Society

Patrick Vitale

“Cold-War Communities: Engineering Pittsburgh's Suburbs” | Followed by Movie Screening of Pleasantville

Our second academic seminar will be led by Patrick Vitale, who is a doctoral student in geography working on a dissertation, “Nuclear Suburbs: the everyday politics of the Cold War in suburban Pittsburgh.” His research examines the confluence of the Cold War, science and engineering, and suburbanization in the Pittsburgh region from 1937 to 1979. Using the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's extensive involvement in the nuclear industry as an example, Patrick argues that the suburbanization of scientific work was a vital and overlooked aspect of the dramatic remaking of the Pittsburgh region during the Cold War.

The seminar will run from 4:30 - 5:00pm, and will be followed by a screening of the movie Pleasantville, a 1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. Pleasantville is a morality tale concerning the values of contemporary suburban America by holding that social landscape up against both the Utopian and the dystopian visions of suburbia that emerged in the 1950s.

Refreshments will be served. Event is free of charge.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 8 pm - midnight
Gabby’s Bar and Grill
(Bloor and Avenue), 192 Bloor St. West

Pub and Trivia Night

American Studies Students Society

American Studies Students Society is hosting our last get together of the year. Take a break from studying and join us for FREE food, FREE drinks, and good times all around! The event will be a pub night and trivia night with prizes to be won. So brush up on your American knowledge and come out to this exciting event! All American Studies students are welcome!

**Please note there will be a wristband policy.