CITAS Lecture Series | What is the "American Model"? Learning Management and Knowledge Ideologies in a “Moment of Danger” for Universities (Ben Chappell)

Ben Chappell is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas, where he also collaborates with the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies. His most recent book is Mexican American Fastpitch: Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport (Stanford UP, 2021), while he has also published the book Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars (University of Texas Press, 2012) as well as numerous articles on popular sport, aesthetics and other aspects of Mexican American culture where he has employed ethnographic approaches. He is in Regensburg as a ScienceCampus visiting fellow throughout June 2022.

The lecture series is organized with Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World