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The program in United States Studies stimulates research and reflection on problems in U.S. society, politics, and culture by placing contemporary policy issues in historical, comparative, and global perspective. It seeks to understand the role of the United States as an important node in the transnational circulation of people, goods, and ideas.
Its current concerns include immigration, “green” jobs, old-age security, work-family reconciliation, and ethical challenges to the culture of business. This year’s events will also address the crisis of American newspapers, Muslim integration in the U.S. and in Germany, the impact of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan on military families, and the teaching and learning of American values.
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News
Sonya Michel Joins Wilson Center as New Director of United States Studies
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars welcomes Sonya Michel as the new director of United States Studies. Most recently, Michel was professor of history and director of the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Upcoming Events
Fixing a Broken Immigration System: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Reform, Day 1
Thursday, October 22 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Panelists: Mae Ngai, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University; Marc Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute; Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and at UCLA; George Sanchez, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California
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Fixing a Broken Immigration System: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Reform, Day 2
Friday, October 23 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Panel II
Gary Gerstle, Professor of American History at Vanderbilt University; David Abraham, Professor of Law at the University of Miami; Arturo Vargas, Executive Director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials; Dowell Myers, Professor of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California School
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Cindy Hahamovitch, Professor of History at the College of William & Mary; David Bacon, Senior Fellow at the Oakland Institute; Tamar Jacoby, and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA; Jennifer Gordon, Associate Professor at Fordham Law School
Concluding Panel
Christian Joppke, Professor of Politics at the American University of Paris; Elena Letona, Associate Director of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities; Richard Foltin, Director of National and Legislative Affairs in the American Jewish Committee's Office of Government and International Affairs; Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology at Brown University
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New Book Discussion: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Thursday, November 05 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Margot Canaday, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University, author; Siobhan Somerville, Associate Professor of of English, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Thomas Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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Book Launch: Woodrow Wilson: A Biography
Tuesday, November 10 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
John Milton Cooper, Jr., E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author; David S. Patterson, Former Chief Editor, Foreign Relations of the United States Series; Leo P. Ribuffo, Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History, George Washington University
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Book Discussion: American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Thursday, December 03 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Author Joan Biskupic, Supreme Court Reporter, USA Today; Richard Lazarus, Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director, Supreme Court Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, and Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor, Slate
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Event Summaries
Book Launch: Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Thursday, September 17 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Author Patricia Sullivan, Associate Professor of History and African-American History, University of South Carolina and Former Fellow, Wilson Center; Julian Bond, Professor of History, University of Virginia (commentator); Kenneth Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, (commentator)
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Black and White and Red Ink All Over: Newspapers in Peril
Tuesday, September 08 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Leonard Downie, Jr., Former Executive Editor, The Washington Post; Allison Silver, Founder, The Washington Independent; Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University; Gabor Steingart, Washington Bureau Chief, Der Spiegel
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Generational Equity in the Welfare State: Germany in an International Comparison
Monday, June 08 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Christoph Conrad, Fellow, Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and Professor of Contemporary History, University of Geneva, Switzerland; commentator Mitchell Orenstein, S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies
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Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
Wednesday, May 27 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Author Scott M. Matheson, Professor of Law, University of Utah, and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; commentator Harvey Rishikof, Professor of National Security Law, National Security College
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United States Studies
Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: usstudies@wilsoncenter.org
Tel: 202/691-4149
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**PUBLICATIONS**
Immigration
Education and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Canada
The Hispanic Challenge? What We Know About Latino Immigration
Women Immigrants in the United States
Women in the United States
Women Immigrants in the United States
Women's Rights in Theory and Practice: Employment, Violence, and Poverty
African-American Studies
Brown v. Board: Its Impact on Education, and What it Left Undone
Civil Rights, Politics and the Law: Three Civil Rights Lawyers Reminisce
Dealing with Race: The Quest for Regional Cooperation
The Black Family Between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Era
American Arabs
American Arabs and Political Participation
American Arabs: History, Identity, Assimilation, Participation
American Muslims
Governments and Muslim Communities in the West: United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany
Muslims in the United States (Arabic edition)
Muslims in the United States (English edition)
Muslims in the United States: Identity, Influence, Innovation
Health
Confronting Cancer Now
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