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    Polarized Families, Polarized Parties: Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics by Gwendoline M. Alphonso

    "Polarized Families, Polarized Parties deepens our understanding of the role that family plays in party politics. Gwendoline Alphonso masterfully illuminates how definitions of family have been crucial to partisan policy debates since the beginning of the twentieth century."—Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon

    In Memoriam: Pete Messent

    The Department of American Studies at the University of Nottingham is sad to report the death of its Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature, Pete Messent, one of the founders of the Department and a well-known and widely respected figure in the American Studies community in the UK, Europe and the US.

    Journal of American Studies Annual Highlights

    The co-editors of JAS are pleased to share this collection of our most downloaded articles - published in the last year, and across the journal as a whole - from the past year.

    Call for Editors: Critical Insights in American Studies Series at Edinburgh University Press

    We are inviting expressions of interest for a new Co-Editor of the ‘Critical Insights in American Studies’ series, formerly the BAAS Paperbacks series.

    Read now: BAAS Schools Newsletter, Winter 2026

    The Winter 2026 edition of the Schools newsletter is now available to read.

    Two funding opportunities and training from the School of Advanced Study

    The School of Advanced Study is pleased to announce two calls for applications for funding grants – one for Being Human Festival 2026, and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities' new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Both grants are open to researchers at universities and eligible research organisations across the UK to collaborate with local community and cultural partners to create exciting and innovative public engagement projects.  The grants foreground arts, humanities and social sciences research and encourage novel approaches to public engagement.  

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