Membership in the CSA is open to all individuals and institutions that support its general mission:
- To create and promote an effective community of cultural studies practitioners and scholars;
- To represent the field and its committed practitioners everywhere; and
- To advance cultural studies knowledges, projects, approaches, and methodologies throughout the world.
As an individual or institutional member of the CSA, you are part of the nation’s largest network of cultural studies practitioners: scholars, educators, artists, and activists. The CSA tries to keep membership fees affordable for all its members and offers
CSA membership is a rolling membership, and based on anniversary. The membership renewals are due on the anniversary date of the individual joining the association. Only one conference registration is permitted per membership year.
Individual Membership
Individual membership rates are based on a sliding scale of individual annual income, with a special discount rate for students. Currently individual memberships are combined with conference registration.
Benefits of membership include:
- Find colleagues and be listed in our member directory.
- Attend/Present at the CSA annual conference (membership required for registration)
- Access to our resources, including our new publication platform/journal Lateral
- Apply for travel grants and prizes
Institutional Membership
Institutional memberships include:
- Listing your program in our annual conference program and our online member directory.
- Hosting or sponsoring events at our annual conference.
- One complimentary full page advertisement for your program or events in the annual conference program.
- Institutional members can use their included conference registrations for either 2 faculty + 1 student OR 1 faculty + 2 students
Institutions may also be interested in hosting the annual conference.
Where your member dues go
Your dues allow us to serve our members, especially students, by having them involved in important projects and programs, including the open access journal Lateral. In terms of our conference, we intend to build funds to help students defray travel costs. We also intend to inaugurate summer institutes. Of course, these projects cost the CSA money and to continue to offer them, we need to ensure a minimum income beyond the conference. In the end, your dues go back to you: since we are a nonprofit 501c3, any monies we generate will have to go to the association and the conference and, thus, to the membership.
Refund policy: CSA membership fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
In addition, student membership rates may require proof of current student status.