NEASA serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Within ASA objectives, NEASA seeks to foster the study of the culture and history of New England; to bring together practitioners of the various disciplines that examine American and New England culture; and to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship, publication, and teaching in these areas at all levels and at all types of institutions. Its membership includes such constituencies as community college, college, and university faculty; secondary school teachers; undergraduate and graduate students, independent scholars; public historians, archivists, and museum curators. NEASA attempts to ensure that these constituencies are represented on NEASA's Council.
We can be contacted at neasacouncil@gmail.com, and the 2011 President, Ben Railton, can be reached at brailton@fitchburgstate.edu.
ASA members residing in the region are automatically NEASA members. Members of the ASA residing outside of the region may join the NEASA according to the ASA guidelines. Other individuals unaffiliated with the ASA may join the NEASA directly. If you are not presently a member of the ASA and living in New England, you can join NEASA by sending a check (payable to NEASA, Inc.) to the NEASA Treasurer for the following amount:
NEASA membership (no ASA affiliation): $15
Regional cross-membership (for ASA members from other regions): $5
NEASA student membership (no ASA affiliation): $10
Treasurer:
Elif Armbruster
Treasurer-NEASA
Suffolk University
Dept of English
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
NEASA sponsors an annual two-day conference. Since 1987, NEASA has also sponsored curriculum workshops or conferences, for and by secondary school teachers. NEASA also works with high schools interested in developing American Studies (interdisciplinary Humanities and Social Studies) courses.
NEASA's annual conferences draw regional, national, and international panelists and participants. Recent conference themes have included:
The Arts and the Public
The Post-American City
Infectious Democracy
Sex/Changes
Homeland In/Securities: Race and Citizenship in the United States
Sightlines: The Culture and Science of Vision
Margaret Fuller and Her Legacy
Native Cultures and New England
Fear Itself: Enemies Real and Imagined in American Culture
Traffic on the High Seas: Trade, Transnational Cultures, the Environment, and New England
Erasures, Evasions & Absences: Contestations for Control of the Public Record Past & Present |