THE FUTURES OF AMERICAN STUDIES INSTITUTE 

FOUNDING DIRECTOR: Professor Donald E. Pease (Dartmouth College)

CO-DIRECTORS: Professor Soyica Diggs Colbert (Georgetown University), Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon  (Northeastern University), Professor Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität, Berlin), Professor Donatella Izzo (Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"), Professor Cindi Katz (CUNY Graduate Center), Professor Eng-Beng Lim (Dartmouth College), Professor Eric W. Lott (CUNY Graduate Center), Professor Israel Reyes (Dartmouth College)

Announcing the 2026 futures of American studies Institute

The Institute is scheduled to be held at Dartmouth Monday, June 29 - Sunday, July 5, 2026. Since its founding in 1999, the Institute has been successful in attracting leading scholars of the field from universities across the world, while at the same time also adding new voices, and serving continuously as a forum for key debates in the field. The Institute was specifically designed to provide a shared space of critical inquiry that brings doctoral students’ work-in-progress to the attention of a network of influential scholars. Each day of the Institute begins with a morning session (9:00 am - 12:00 pm) and concludes with an evening session (7:00 - 10:00 pm) at which plenary speakers deliver presentations of no more than thirty-minutes that contribute to our convoking topic. These presentations are followed by questions from the participants. After a lunch break, the Institute’s participants meet in intensive workshop groups from 1:30-  5:00 pm (consisting of no more than 10 participants), each of which is led a Seminar Director of the Institute. These workshops offer those enrolled in the Institute—scholars from a variety of disciplines and institutions—the opportunity for critical conversations about the central intellectual issues and impasses in their research. The cost of tuition, housing, midweek picnic, and final banquet remains $695.00 for the week.