American Studies Association

Welcome to our virtual landing page for the American Studies Association conference this year, November 2 – 5, 2023, in Montreal, QC. We would like to highlight our new books and share our conference discount.

 

We are pleased to offer ASA members a 30% discount on all orders placed through December 15, 2023. Enter promo code WAS3 at checkout through our website or through our Canadian Distributor, University of Toronto Press.

 

Our acquisitions editors are eager to connect with current and prospective authors about new projects and book proposals. If you have a project you’d like to discuss, please get in touch with Mike Baccam:

Mike Baccam, Acquisitions Editor, mbaccam@uw.edu

Asian American studies, western US history, environmental history, and critical ethnic studies

 

We’ve curated a selection of our new and noteworthy books below, and you can find additional titles here.

New in American Studies

Stitching Love and Loss

Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee's Bend Quilt

Lisa Gail Collins

$29.95

Hardcover

200 Pages

Settler Cannabis

Settler Cannabis

From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California

Kaitlin P. Reed, Charlotte Coté, Coll Thrush

$30.00

Paperback

308 Pages

Island X

Island X

Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campus Spies, and Cold War Activism

Wendy Cheng

$30.00

Paperback

270 Pages

Slapping Leather

Slapping Leather

Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

Elyssa Ford, Rebecca Scofield

$29.95

Paperback

288 Pages

The Unknown Great

The Unknown Great

Stories of Japanese Americans at the Margins of History

Greg Robinson, Jonathan van Harmelen

$30.00

Paperback

276 Pages

Cops on Campus

Cops on Campus

Rethinking Safety and Confronting Police Violence

Yalile Suriel, Grace Watkins, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, John Joseph Sloan, III, Michael R. Hames-García, Micol Seigel

$30.00

Paperback

296 Pages

Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

Christopher B. Teuton, Loretta Shade, Hastings Shade, Larry Shade, MaryBeth Timothy

$34.95

Paperback

296 Pages

Resisting the Nuclear

Resisting the Nuclear

Art and Activism across the Pacific

Elyssa Faison, Alison Fields, Laura Kina

$35.00

Paperback

344 Pages

Queer Data Studies

Queer Data Studies

Patrick Keilty, Rebecca Herzig, Banu Subramaniam

$30.00

Paperback

312 Pages

Hacking the Underground

Hacking the Underground

Disability, Infrastructure, and London's Public Transport System

Raquel Velho, Banu Subramaniam, Rebecca Herzig

$30.00

Paperback

202 Pages

Capturing Glaciers

Capturing Glaciers

A History of Repeat Photography and Global Warming

Dani Inkpen, Paul S. Sutter, Paul S. Sutter

$30.00

Paperback

270 Pages

Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid

Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid

Willyce Kim, Eunsong Kim

$19.95

Paperback

170 Pages