Faculty List

Professor and Director
Rick Halpern, PhD. Director, American Studies Program and Centre for the Study of the United States

Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream
Alexandra Rahr, PhD. Director of Undergraduate Programs and Student Experience
Leah Montange, PhD. Bissell-Heyd Lecturer in American Studies

Introduction

The American Studies Program is designed to provide students with a broad, yet deep, education about the United States and its role in the world. American Studies’ small and topical core courses allow students to engage intellectually with a rapidly changing world and ask, “what is America, how has it changed, and what are the best ways to study and understand it?” 
To ensure breadth, students are required to take two interdisciplinary core courses that both range widely with respect to content and multidisciplinary perspectives. As well, the Program offers a wide selection of courses from participating departments and programs such as Geography, Political Science, History, Music, Cinema Studies, Economics, English, Indigenous Studies, Religion, Sociology, Caribbean Studies, and Canadian Studies, giving students broad exposure to fundamental themes animating American life. To ensure depth, the American Studies Program relies heavily on upper-level courses, including seminars at the 300 and 400-levels. 

Enquiries:
Program Coordinator, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, 1 Devonshire Place Room 327N, (416-946-8972), csus@utoronto.ca