Graduate School of North American Studies

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The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) is a graduate school of the Free University of Berlin , located at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies . It was honored in October 2006 for its research concept "The Challenges of Freedom" by the Excellence Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation and was inaugurated on November 5, 2007 by Joschka Fischer .

aims

The GSNAS aims to prepare students for a career in science, research institutions or other organizations. The GSNAS study and teaching program includes an interdisciplinary analysis of the changes that North America has undergone in the recent past in history, society, economy and culture. The students are introduced to the theory and method of historical studies, cultural and literary studies, political science, sociology and economics and are made familiar with interdisciplinary approaches.

Research areas

  • American exceptionalism in the contemporary context
  • Nations, ethnicity, diaspora and borderlands
  • The Conservative Revolution and New Social Movements
  • The role of religion in North American public life
  • Art, Aesthetics, and American Culture
  • The Struggle for the Public: Media and Cultural Paradigm
  • Neoliberalism as an Economic and Cultural Paradigm
  • Globalization and the "american centuries"

partner

Among its academic partners, the GSNAS has the American Studies Programs of Brown University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , Stanford University , Berkeley , University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, Yale , University College Dublin and the Hertie School of Governance . In addition, there are non-university partnerships with the American Academy in Berlin , the Canadian Universities Center (Berlin), the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP), the German Institute for Economic Research , Science and Politics Foundation , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Graduate Schools. (No longer available online.) German Research Foundation , archived from the original ; accessed on June 23, 2020 .