Last month I set up a blog for the American Studies Crossroads Project as a way to keep people up to date with changes made to the site. Since 1995, Crossroads has provided a comprehensive and integrated platform for pedagogical, scholarly, and institutional information for the international American Studies Community. New content is being [...]
Following the recent indexing of Cliopatria’s History Blogroll, it’s worth offering a side-by-side comparison of two different approaches to academic blog directories. This follows several months of experimentation of approaching my goal to establish an American Studies blog directory as part of the Crossroads Project. The two fundamental differences between the directories I’ve seen [...]
Lucy Maddox’s Locating American Studies: the Evolution of a Discipline is commonly required reading in American Studies theory and methods courses because of its breadth and analysis of the evolution of the discipline. What if we could visualize that disciplinary evolution? What ways could we see the shifting theoretical perspectives of scholars, [...]
Last semester I had the privilege of working under the auspices of Randy Bass at Georgetown University’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship on the American Studies Crossroads Project – an instrumental disciplinary vehicle on the web for American Studies. My most notable contribution to the site was the recreation of a [...]
I’d like to welcome everyone who recently began aggregating my feed, and encourage those who read my site to subscribe to Finding America to have my entries delivered directly to you. Another recent change is that users can now leave comments without logging in. These were suggestions made in an blog entry by [...]