United States Studies Centre
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| Non-profit | |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, Australia |
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Key people
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Professor Simon Jackman, CEO Mark Baillie, Chair of the Board of Directors |
| Website | ussc.edu.au |
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney aims to increase understanding of the United States in Australia and enrich the Australia-United States relationship. The centre teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students, conducts policy-focused research, and hosts public events on a range of issues.
Then Prime Minister John Howard announced in 2006 a $25 million endowment to establish a United States Studies Centre. After a national competition administered by the New-York-based American Australian Association, the University of Sydney won the right to form the Centre in partnership with the AAA, with additional support from the NSW government and the private sector.
The Centre constituted its Board of Directors chaired by Malcolm Binks, AO and held its first National Summit on the Bush Presidency in 2007. The Centre admitted its first postgraduate students in its MA and PhD degrees in US Studies in early 2008. This year also saw the appointment of the Centre's founding CEO, Professor Geoffrey Garrett, its Chair in US Politics, Professor Margaret Levi, as well as the completion of the Centre's building on the University of Sydney's Darlington campus. In 2009, the Centre appointed journalist James Fallows as Chair in US Media, offered its first undergraduate unit of study on The US in the world, and formed a partnership with Harvard University to host the Centre's second National Summit on Sustainable Globalisation.
In 2009, the Centre hosted its first cohort of six postdoctoral fellows, chosen from 176 applicants. The fellows' work focused on a variety of issues related to the United States, including cross-national comparisons of the role of religion, effects of increases in income inequality, the history of financial exchanges, U.S. and Arab-Israeli relations, Latino interest in education policy, and the history of sexual liberation in the 1970s U.S.
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