American Studies
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UK
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University of Hull
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On Campus (Full Time)
3 years-
PhD Studentship
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Unspecified
On Campus (Full Time) Position Details (PhD Program)
University of Hull pioneered American Studies in Britain. After more than half a century, American Studies at Hull has one of the finest collections of American resources of any British university.
This is a superb archive for postgraduate research students on our American Studies American Studies PhD courses at University of Hull University of Hull .
Our academic staff have distinguished national and international reputations for teaching and research, and, like the University of Hull as a whole, American Studies at Hull is known as one of the friendliest departments in the country.
Features
- One of our strengths is our ability to carry our research across disciplinary borders best illustrated through recent PhD projects such as ‘How Can One Tell the Truth About My Lai?’, which examined how historians, novelists, journalists, filmmakers, and the US Army sought to ‘explain’ the notorious Vietnamese massacre of 1968.
Curriculum:
- Gang culture and the incarceral society
- History on film
- Mexican-American history
- African-American history
- The Civil Rights movement
- The Civil War
- War and 20th-century American society