American Studies Abroad

Models for Implementing Virtual Studies Abroad

The Bologna process [1] aims to promote real as well as virtual mobility of students. The EU project REVE (Real Virtual Erasmus; cf. http://reve.europace.org/) aims at enhancing the impact and efficiency of the Erasmus programme through the set-up of and support for a full-fletched virtual Erasmus action. In REVE, Virtual Erasmus is seen as a complement to the existing Erasmus exchange programm...

A lab with a view: American postdocs abroad.

As recently as the early 1970s, a postdoctoral research experience overseas was a valued part of training for a U.S. biologist aspiring to an academic position. Not only did the U.S. scientists benefit educationally from participating in different laboratory and cultural systems, but labs outside the United States were enriched by the ideas, perspectives, and skills brought by the visiting rese...

Work Abroad

Travel Abroad

American Studies 207: American Cultural Landscapes Professor

An Unattainable Salvation Dirt, Danger & Domesticity in Old New York It was 1832, and in the Five Points area of New York, a great street excavation was under way. What would cause such a flurry over the cobbles? Here, shovels plied the earth decades before the subway tunneled beneath the crowded streets. Electrical poles and telegraph lines had yet to become a nuisance worthy of inhumation. No...