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Thursday November 17, 2022
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1962 - US President JFK dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.
1980 - WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station.
2003 - Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Dear AMST Newsletter Subscribers,
While it’s been quite some time since you’ve heard from us, we’ve been working on reimagining our American Studies newsletter, and we’re ready to share! Delivered every other week on Thursdays, the newsletter seeks to provide useful and interesting information about the department, our world, culture, and beyond. Including fun historical facts, important current events, student and faculty opportunities, department kudos, specialized admin support, and more, the newsletter underscores all that is happening in and around GW American Studies.
If you have any questions about our newsletter, feel free to send us an email at amst@gwu.edu. Look out for the next AMST newsletter arriving December 1!
-GW AMST
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(Left): Prof. Calvin Warren; (Right): Prof. John Vlach
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In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor John Michael Vlach
It is with sadness that we share the passing of John Michael Vlach, emeritus professor of American Studies, on October 30th. He was 74 years old. John joined the Department in 1981 and remained a professor here for thirty-two years. Over that time, he not only directed the Department’s long-running Folklife Program and chaired the Department, but he also taught hundreds of students of American studies, folklore, anthropology, and museum studies, including some who went on to become founding curators at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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In his expansive and distinguished scholarship, he studied many subjects, but none were more important to him than African Americans’ artistry and agency as reflected in the landscape and everyday objects they created, from agricultural field patterns and dwelling styles, to basketry and quilt making. On these subjects, John wrote numerous books and curated exhibitions, including The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts (1978), Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip Simmons (1981), By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife (1991), Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery (1993), and The Planter's Prospect: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings (2002). His last book, Barns (2003), won the Fred Kniffen Prize for Best Book on North American Material Culture. Shortly after his retirement, in 2013, the Vernacular Architecture Forum awarded him its Henry Glassie Award for lifetime scholarly achievement in vernacular architecture studies.
The Department stands on the shoulders of eminent former faculty like John. To recognize this fact, it created the Horton-Vlach Fund in 2014 (recognizing John and our late colleague James O. Horton) to support student and faculty research, Department events, and educational enrichment activities. It stands as a reminder of everything that John contributed to our American Studies community.
John’s family is planning an event to celebrate his life in June 2023. We will be sure to share details when they become available. In the meantime, memorial contributions may be made to the Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation.
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GW Philosophy Department's 2022 Sophia Endowed Lecture
“'An Act of Political Warfare': Reclaiming Audre Lorde and the Black Feminist Poetics of Care"
Dr. K. Bailey Thomas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy at Dartmouth College
When: Friday, November 18, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
Where: Corcoran Hall, 101A
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| The David & Sherry Berz Endowed Lecture
"From Justification to Justice: Rethinking Christianity in the Abortion Debate"
Rebecca Todd Peters, PhD, Elon University
When: Thursday, December 1, 2022, 5:00-6:30 pm
Where: University Student Center, Room 309
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| Current PhD student, Camilla Cannon, is a 2022-2023 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Professor Melani McAlister’s book The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals, published by Oxford University Press, was issued in paperback this summer. The new issue includes a substantial new preface from Professor McAlister.
Associate Professor Tom Guglielmo’s most recent monograph, Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America's World War II Military, published by Oxford University Press in October 2021, was the recipient of the Society for Military History's 2021 Distinguished Book Award. In addition, the book was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize and shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award.
Justin L. Mann (PhD ‘18) is a visiting research scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year at Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies.
Kimberly Probolus-Cedroni (PhD ‘19) was recently named, by the Department of the Interior Secretary Debra Haaland, to the Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names.
Sara Awartani (PhD ‘20) recently won the Puerto Rican Studies Association’s 2022 PRSA Virginia Sánchez Korrol Dissertation Award for her dissertation titled “Solidarities of Liberation, Visions of Empire: Puerto Rico, Palestine, and the U.S. Imperial Project, 1967-1999.”
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