American & New England Studies Graduate Student Association (GSA)
The American & New England Studies Graduate Student Association was founded in the spring of 2012 to meet a growing desire for greater community networking and support, to foster collegiality and creative thinking, and to represent student interests in an official manner to the university as well as to the larger community of American Studies graduate programs and scholars both here and abroad.
GSA membership is open to all graduate students in the American Studies and Preservation programs as well as graduate students from other disciplines. The GSA conducts activities that fosters community among the American Studies and Preservation students and raise the academic status of the program.
The GSA hosts programs to support community, scholarship, and professional development. These include a graduate-undergraduate mentorship program, the Americanist Forum, social events that engage both our own AMNESP community and our broader worlds, a biennial American Studies student conference, and a series of workshops aimed at professional development, navigating the terrain of graduate school and thinking through our role as scholars within the academy and beyond.
For information about the GSA, please contact the current president Anne Boyd.
Other Student Organizations at BU
Our MA closely connects to other department, and these also have excellent graduate student organizations. We encourage engaging in their activities and initiatives. A few samples are:
BU Graduate Student Organization
Sponsors social activities and other events that are open to all graduate students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Graduate Student History of Art & Architecture Association (GSHAAA)
GSHAAA strives to deepen our knowledge of art history, to support our graduate students’ art-historical endeavors and departmental life, and to provide funding (when possible) and academic and professional development opportunities to our budding scholars. SEQUITUR is the online scholarly journal produced by the graduate students of the Department of History of Art & Architecture (HAA).
History Graduate Student Organization (HGSO)
The History Graduate Student Organization hosts social events as well as academic and professional programs for all current graduate students in the History Department.