May 3, 2023
Designing pro bono initiatives to access legal services
Ariel Clemmer, ’05, heads the Center for Social Justice, which designs and implements innovative pro bono services in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Student & Alumni Success
American Studies major Joanna Hejl ’20 has been named the University of Richmond’s first ever Beinecke Scholar. The scholarship provides recipients with $34,000 to support graduate studies in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Learn more.
Upcoming Events
Greetings from the Richmond Exhibit
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On the first day of class, the American Studies Capstone Seminar, taught by Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American studies, gathered at UR Downtown and walked to The Valentine, just five blocks away. -
Students explored the This is Richmond, Virginia exhibition at The Valentine with Meg Hughes, curator of archives. -
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At the Virginia Historical Society, the class met with Paige Newman, associate archivist for collections processing, to learn about their archives. -
At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Assistant Curator of American Art Christopher Oliver, ’04, led a tour of the exhibition The Likeness of Labor. The class viewed photographs that were not included — a great lesson in curatorial practice. -
Each student played a critical role in the development and installation of the exhibition. Caroline Weber, ’16, puts up the labels in the Wilton Companies Gallery at UR Downtown. -
Greetings from Richmond, Virginia: Visitors through the Centuries includes 26 visitors — from Black Hawk to Lizzie Armitstead — spanning three centuries. Each student told the story of two visitors. -
The exhibition features vintage postcards that celebrate Richmond as a city of history, leisure, and commerce - themes in the exhibition - and show what visitors were writing home about. Guests can take a postcard and share using #GreetingsFromRichmond. -
The students, Nicole Sackley, and Alexandra Byrum, UR Downtown educational programming coordinator, gather at UR Downtown for the RVA First Fridays exhibition opening. Nearly 100 students, faculty, staff, and community members were in attendance. -
Karolina Castro, ’16, answers questions as a friend explores guidebooks from Boatwright Library’s Special Collections. The exhibition also features Richmond tourism videos from 1955, 1977, and 2012 and tourist iteneraries from 1850, 1910, 1963, and 2016. -
“Richmond — capital of the Cavaliers — a city that is mellow and yet modern, where the rustle of the past may still be heard amid the bustle of the present,” stated the 1937 publication, A Tour of Historic Richmond, one of five quotations that were chosen -
Guests explore 19th and early 20th century visitors to Richmond below the words of Theodore Roosevelt, “I am captivated with it all; I am tempted to stay here.” (1905).
Faculty Highlights
Tilton Awarded
Photogrammar, a project led by Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities; and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics; along with colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Lab at UR and American Studies at Yale University, was awarded the American Studies Association's 2022 Garfinkel Prize in Digital Humanities.
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Tilton and Arnold Awarded
Lauren Tilton, associate professor of digital humanities, and Taylor Arnold, associate professor of statistics, received a $485,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for their Distant Viewing Toolkit project. Learn more.
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Browder Awarded Grant
Dr. Laura Browder, American Studies professor, along with UR colleagues was awarded grant support for the inter-campus collaborative project, "Participatory History and Archiving: An Initiative to Promote and Support Undergraduate Instruction and Project Outcomes in Community-Based Research and Archiving." Read More
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Sackley Receives NEH Grant
Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American Studies, has received $6,000 in summer funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to advance her book project, which explores the history of cooperatives in the United States. Read more: http://bit.ly/Sackley-NEH-Grant
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February 10, 2023
University of Richmond Named Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars
The University of Richmond is included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars for 2022–23.
June 23, 2022
University of Richmond Professor Laura Browder Awarded Fulbright Grant to Study Civil Rights Activism in Denmark
American Studies professor Laura Browder has been named a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, which is located in Scandinavia.
January 5, 2022
Maha Hassan, '22
Senior compares, contrasts U.S. and South Asian policies on gender, class, race, and nationalism
Faculty in the News
August 10, 2022
When America Joined the Cult of the Confederacy
This article cites research by history professor Eric Yellin.
January 26, 2022
Redlining in Hamilton: Historic maps show how federal govt. rated for "low grade of negro"
American Studies professor Rob Nelson, director of the Digital Scholarship Lab, is interviewed about the DSL’s “Mapping Inequality” project.
December 11, 2021
Confederate Christmas ornaments are smaller than statues - but they send the same racist message
Nicole Maurantonio, associate professor of rhetoric & communication studies and American Studies, authored this piece, which first appeared in The Conversation.
December 4, 2021
New online exhibit celebrates history of transportation in Richmond
American Studies professor Laura Browder and theatre professor Patricia Herrera’s students helped create an exhibition on the importance of public transportation.
Contact Us
Mailing address:
American Studies Program
Carole Weinstein International Center, Room 306
211 Richmond Way
University of Richmond, Virginia 23173
Phone: (804) 484-1471
Fax: (804) 484-1577
Program Coordinator: Laura Browder
Academic Administrative Coordinator: Kaleigh Crowgey