Because graduate education is a vital part of American Studies in the present and a site for defining and anticipating the field’s future, we want to open up a many-sided conversation with contributions from new and established scholars, graduate students and graduate faculty, and everyone from traditional academics to artists and activists. Our panelists are Steve Brier, Clarissa Ceglio (who created the blog,) Doug Lambert, Sharon Leon, John Carlos Rowe, and Robert Snyder.