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Our M.A. in the Study of the Americas combines a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including literature, anthropology, history, philosophy, urban studies, cultural studies, film, and political science, to the study of race, gender, human rights, contemporary politics, immigration, and popular culture. Recent courses include: Postcolonial Caribbean Thought and Aesthetics; Race and Nation in the Americas; Cultures of Surveillance; The Power of Place: Youth and the City; Women’s Revolutionary Fiction; War and Justice in the 21st Century (co-taught by Luis Moreno Ocampo, Former International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor); Cultures of Capital; Climate Change in Caribbean Art and Literature; Indigenous Visions; Forced Migrations; and Dominican Fiction & Film of the 21st Century.

Hear from the Program Director
Susanna Rosenbaum