博士 美国研究计划（American Studies）培养学生成为知识渊博，参与度高和生产性的学者和公众人文主义者。美国研究专业的课程为学生提供了跨学科工作方法的严格培训，同时使他们可以自由地遵循自己的学术兴趣和目标。研究生根据系制定的指导方针设计自己的学习课程，并与系内和整个大学的教职员工合作。最近的研究生已经研究了非裔美国人历史，亚裔美国人和拉丁美洲人的文化和政治，童年发展，公共历史，跨国流行文化，电影，物质文化，宗教以及性与性别史等领域。学生选择升读博士学位时会获得美国研究专业的硕士学位或公共人文科
The Ph.D. program American Studies trains students to become knowledgeable, engaged and productive scholars and public humanists. The Department of American Studies at Brown University undertakes the interdisciplinary study of the diverse cultures, groups and experiences that make up American life. One of the oldest American Studies programs in the nation, its graduate students and faculty represent a community of innovative scholars committed to defining new directions in research, teaching across the disciplines, and reaching out to diverse audiences. The Ph.D. program in American Studies provides students with rigorous training in the methods of interdisciplinary work while allowing them the freedom to follow their own academic interests and goals. Graduate students design their own course of study within the guidelines set up by the department, working with faculty both in the department and throughout the university. Recent graduate students have studied in areas as diverse as African American history, Asian American and Latino culture and politics, childhood development, public history, transnational popular culture, film, material culture, religion, and the history of sexuality and gender. Students chose to receive either an A.M. in American Studies or an A.M. in Public Humanities on their way to the Ph.D.