https://youtu.be/RSoEL9m5sqs Interested in researching American Studies abroad? In this episode of USSO’s Career Stories, we heard about the fascinating research career of Dr Suzanne Enzerink, a Dutch researcher in American Studies who completed her PhD at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and worked in the U.S., Lebanon, and… Continue reading
https://youtu.be/IRp7B-aO89M Today we launched a new feature here at USSO: Career Stories. In this conversational series, we’ll discuss the directions, dilemmas, and decisions made by those trained in American Studies pursuing careers inside and outside of academia. Today, for a distinctly European special, we discussed careers in Europe with Dr… Continue reading
The next U.S. Studies Online Book Hour will take place 28th April 2023, at 4pm GMT/12pm EST with Dr. David Riddle Watson and his first monograph, Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan Crime Files Series, 2021). Dr. Watson teaches at Central Carolina Community College. He completed his… Continue reading
The next U.S. Studies Online Book Hour will take place 17th March 2023, at 4pm GMT with Dr. Kevin Waite, who will talk with us about his first – and award-winning – book, West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire (The University of North Carolina Press,… Continue reading
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia – but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. In the second interview of this series, I talk to Dr. David Bosold of the John-F.-Kennedy-Institute Berlin about transatlantic relationships, career development, and dreams of meeting US footballers. Continue reading
‘My Research’ is a new feature that aims to introduce and summarise the research of Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers within the field of American and Canadian Studies. Sit back, and get to know some of the craziest, challenging, and rewarding places researchers have been taken to… Continue reading
International experience has become a prerequisite for success in academia – but depending on how you look at it, this can be exciting and terrifying in equal measure. I’m launching a new USSO series about how to take your research across borders, talking to representatives of those institutions and programs that can help PhDs and postdocs build an international profile. The Terra Foundation for American Art is my first interview partner. Continue reading
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. Our “Career Stories” feature is an attempt to incorporate more professional development posts on U.S. Studies Online and address some of the wider anxieties in the postgraduate and early career cohorts regarding employment, employability and the options available. We hope to… Continue reading
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. Our “Career Stories” feature is an attempt to incorporate more professional development posts on U.S. Studies Online and address some of the wider anxieties in the postgraduate and early career cohorts regarding employment, employability and the options available. We hope to… Continue reading
U.S. Studies Online is excited to introduce our new segment “Career Stories”. With us this week is Rachel Walls, Academic Skills Development Tutor at the University of Leeds. Rachel holds a PhD in Canadian Studies from the University of Nottingham. Continue reading