I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an…

I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture.

— Steve Purdy

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the…

— Amar Bose

“As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

“To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this…

— Richard Wiseman

I didn't study writing in school, I studied biology as an undergraduate and graduate student. So I think that I write fiction in the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Things that I can do myself, I either do by myself, or teach a willing undergraduate who doesn't know how to do those things…

— John Maeda

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my…

— Ian Rankin

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

— Hill Harper

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

— Nick Kroll

The fact that the American government has formally set aside an enormous yearly budget of nearly $75 million to increase cultural exchanges in order…

— Mohammad Marandi

By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times…

— Tom Wolfe

The final test of Afro-American studies will be the extent to which they rid the minds of whites and blacks alike of false learning,…

— Jay Saunders Redding

I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies.

— Yara Shahidi

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

— Harold E. Varmus