The Center includes a seminar room (South Hall 2714) and a research conference room (South Hall 2710) with a reference library and access to on-line databases. These spaces provide a setting in which faculty and students can engage in activities devoted to promoting both research and curricular development.

The Center's programming facilitates the construction of new kinds of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The Center also disseminates research by converting the results of major conferences hosted by the unit into collected volumes and web-based publications.

The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center supports a range of activities including:

• individual and collaborative research
• lectures, workshops, and seminars
• major conferences
• innovative curricular development
• the production of collected volumes/working papers
• the production of web-based resources