The theme and leader of each year's American Studies Seminar changes, but all provide a rare opportunity for undergraduates enrolled at one of the five participating institutions to do primary, in-person research in a major research library.

Admission to the seminar is coordinated by the following faculty representatives on each of the five participating campuses:

Assumption University: John F. Bell, jf.bell@assumption.edu

Clark University: Meredith Neuman, meneuman@clark.edu

College of the Holy Cross: Gwenn Miller, gmiller@holycross.edu

Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Prof. Steven C. Bullock, HUA, sbullock@wpi.edu

Worcester State University: Charlotte Haller‭, challer1@worcester.edu

Application

Online application for the fall 2023 seminar

Eligible students may contact faculty representative for more information.

Topics under scrutiny have ranged from popular culture in colonial America to the myth of violence in the late-nineteenth-century American West.