When speculation drives critical thinking and intellectual life thrives across boundaries, we have the opportunity to expand modes of institutionalized learning
The American Studies Collaboratory, Col(LAB), aims to provide an out-of-the-box, self-reflective research space and collaborative occasions. It seeks to bring curiosity, play and invention back to our collective intellectual pursuits.
We invite you to join faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, artists, community organizers, and media makers to engage in critical thinking coupled with innovative collaboration. Col(LAB) provides a framework where scholarship and creativity converge to nurture new connections and discoveries at the edges of our research practices.
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Ongoing Projects



Participants in “Col(LAB) 2.0: Strange Life: Beauty, Race, & War” prepare lactic acid in a lab session in the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Photo by Sarah Malone