{"id":2441,"date":"2021-12-20T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.snapthemes.io\/unisco-pro\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2022-09-12T06:23:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T06:23:21","slug":"blog-heading-here-one-line-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2021\/12\/20\/blog-heading-here-one-line-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is American Studies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the American Studies Association, &#8220;In its relatively brief history, American Studies has taken on many different incarnations and identities. Founded in the 1930s and 1940s as a locus of interdisciplinary inquiry into the national cultures of the United States, it has become a generative field of intellectual curiosity and creativity, a nexus of energy and engagement. American Studies scholars share a dynamic commitment to democratic inquiry rather than a universally agreed upon canon of required methods or venerated works. The field encompasses an eclectic array of practices and pedagogies that cohere around openness to studying diverse research objects, asking a broad range of research questions, and engaging with a wide range of scholarly approaches, methods and theories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the field of American Studies from the American Studies Association <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasa.net\/sites\/default\/files\/What_is_American_Studies.pdf\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the American Studies Association, &#8220;American Studies scholars share a dynamic commitment to democratic inquiry rather than a universally agreed upon canon of required methods or venerated works.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amer.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}