Graduate School of North American Studies

The Graduate School of North American Studies ( GSNAS ) is a graduate school of the Free University of Berlin, located at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies. She was awarded in October 2006 for her research concept " The Challenges of Freedom" by the Excellence Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research Foundation and opened by Joschka Fischer solemnly on 5 November 2007.

Objectives

The GSNAS aims to prepare students for a career in academia, research institutions or other organizations. The study and teaching program of the GSNAS comprises an interdisciplinary analysis of the changes that lived through North America in the recent past in history, society, economy and culture. The students are introduced to the theory and method of history, culture and literature, political science, sociology and economics and familiarized with interdisciplinary approaches.

Research

• The American Exceptionalism in the presence of context
• Nations, Ethnicity, Diaspora and Border Country
• The Conservative Revolution and New Social Movements
• The role of religion in public life in North America
• Art, aesthetics and American Culture
• The battle for the public: media and cultural paradigm
• Neoliberalism as an economic and cultural paradigm
• Globalization and the "american centuries"

Partner

Among its academic partners, the GSNAS the American Studies programs at Brown University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Stanford University, Berkeley, University of North Carolina | Chapel Hill, Yale, University College Dublin and the Hertie School of Governance. In addition, there are still non-university partnerships with the American Academy in Berlin, the Canadian Universities Centre ( Berlin), the German Society for Foreign Policy ( DGAP), the German Institute for Economic Research, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Terra Foundation.