William Alexander, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: Prisons & Juvenile Facilities in the U.S.; Prison arts; pedagogy; community organizing.
Naomi Andre, Associate Professor, Women's Studies. Primary Interests: Music, especially 19th century Italian opera. Gender and cultural studies, particularly surrounding the areas of voice, race/ethnicity, representation and identity.
Richard W. Bailey, Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor, English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: The History of English language with a strong focus on its development in this hemisphere (North America and the Caribbean).
Judith O. Becker, Professor Emeritus of Music, School of Music, Theater and Dance, Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Department of Musicology (School of Music); Director, Center for World Performance Studies; Former Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Director, University of Michigan Javanese Gamelan Ensemble (since 1967). Primary Interests: Ethnomusicology, Southeast Asian studies.
Ruth Behar, Professor, Anthropology and Women's Studies, Department of Anthropology. Primary Interests: Self-narratives, autobiographies and life histories of Latin American and Latina women; ethnicity and narrative in American personal ethnographies; Cuba and Cuban Americans; diaspora Jewish cultures.
Giorgio Bertellini, Assistant Professor (Michigan Society of Fellows) Screen Arts and Culture, and Romance Languages and Literatures. Primary Interests: Silent film, early twentieth century film viewership, Italian and Italian-American cinema.
Crisca Bierwert, Associate Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). Primary Interests: Native American cultures, women's health, environmental studies, cultural and ritual performance.
Sara B. Blair, Associate Professor of English. Primary interests: American literature and culture 1890-present; US modernism and modernity; photography and visual cultures.
Francis Blouin, Professor of Inforamtion, School of Information and Professor of History
Director, Bentley Historical Library. Primary Interests: Archival theory and practice; U.S. Social History.
Charles Bright, Professor, History and the Residential College. Primary Interests: 20th century history--world history, Michigan history, Detroit history, prison history.
John Carson, Associate Professor of History. Primary Interests: American Intellectual/Cultural History; History of Science; History of the Human Sciences.
Rosario Ceballo, Associate Professor, LSA Psychology Department and Department of Women's Studies. Primary Interest: The impact of poverty and community violence on child development.
Edward C. Chang, Associate Professor of Psychology. Primary Interests: Cognitive-behavioral processes, stress, and coping in general; correlates of heightened pessimism among Asian Americans compared to Caucasian Americans; intersections between clinical, social, and personality psychology, particularly concerning optimism, pessimism, social problem solving, and perfectionism as predictors of psychological and physical well-being.
Barry Checkoway, Professor of Urban Planning. Primary Interests: Community organization and community development; social policy and planning; urban affairs and neighborhood practice.
Anthony Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Primary Interests: Politics of Civil Rights, labor studies, Asian American experience, gender studies.
Mark Clague, Assistant Professor of Musicology, School of Music, Associate Director of the American Music Institute. Primary Interests: American music of all periods (classical, popular, sacred, and folk), cultural institutions in American cities, discourse on social function of music especially concerning class, film music (esp. Copland), nationalism and patriotic song especially "The Star-Spangled Banner," band music especially by Alton Augustus Adams, Sr., first black bandmaster of the U.S. Navy, music in everyday life, cultural economics.
Santiago Colas, Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American Literature and Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. Primary Interests: Latin American culture; critical theory and marxism; theories of modernity and postmodernity.
Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Susan Douglas, Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication and Professor of Communication Studies and Chair, Communication Studies Department. Primary Interests: Media Studies, Gender Studies.
Herbert Eagle, Chair and Associate Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures and Associate Professor, Residential College. Primary Interests: Russian and Eastern European film.
Lincoln Faller, Professor, English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: Eighteenth-century prose narrative (novels, travel books, captivity narratives, criminal biography especially); Defoe; contemporary Native American literature; the history and cultures of the American Southwest, particularly the Santa Fe Trail as a zone of cultural exchange and interaction from before the arrival of the Spanish to the present day; George Bent; the early ethnography and historiography of the Southern Cheyennes.
Thomas Fricke, Professor, LSA Anthropology; Senior Research Scientist Population Studies Center and SRC Family Demography. Primary Interests: Marriage, family work, social change; moral identities in American; rural American transition; Anthropologies of American place and identity.
Joseph A. Galura, Lecturer II, Director, Project Community/Sociology 389 & 325; Co-Director, LUCY: Lives of Urban Children and Youth Initiative; Faculty Associate, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies; Field Instructor, School of Social Work, First-Year seminar faculty. Primary Interests: The intersectionality between service-learning, intergroup dialogue and living-learning communities; the lives of urban children and youth; the experiences of Filipino Americans, particularly in metropolitan Detroit.
Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Assistant Professor of Music (Musicology), School of Music.
Laurence Goldstein, Professor, English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: Romantic literature; modern and contemporary poetry; relation of technology and literature; film (especially fiction and poetry about movies and movie-making); creative writing; the history of Literary Journals; topics associated with Wordsworth: landscape, nostalgia, reverie, ruins, the French Revolution and its impact.
Thomas Green, Professor, History; John Philip Dawson Professor of Law, Law School. Primary Interests: Anglo-American constitutional and legal history; social and intellectual history of Anglo-American criminal law.
Sandra Gunning, Professor, English Languages and Literature and Afroamerican & African Studies.
Lorraine Gutierrez, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Psychology, College of LSA, professor of Social Work, Academic Program Director, School of Social Work and Director, Center for Community Learning. Primary Interests: Community psychology, multicultural community participation and social action; empowerment processes on the individual and community levels.
Jarrod Hayes, Associate Professor of French. Primary Interests: Francophone literatures and cultures (Maghreb, Sub-Saharan, Caribbean, Quebec); post-colonial studies; queer-studies.
Anne Herrmann, Professor, English and Women's Studies. Primary Interests: Gender Studies (feminist and queer theory); literary and cultural theory; interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to modernism and post modernism.
Don Herzog, Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law. Primary Interests: Political, legal, social and moral theory.
Joel Howell, Director, Clinical Scholars Program; Director, Program in Society and Medicine; Victor Vaughan Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor, Health Management and Policy, History, and Internal Medicine. Primary Interests: The history of medical technology and medical care in late-19th and early-20th century U.S.; the history and sociology of science and technology.
Ken Ito, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures. Primary Interests: modern Japanese literature, literary history, cultural studies, narratology.
Carol Jacobsen, Professor, School of Art and Design and Women's Studies. Primary Interests: contemporary art, feminism, social documentary film/video, photography, issues of women's criminalization and censorship.
Susan Juster, Professor, History. Primary Interests: Colonial and revolutionary America; religion in America; women in early America.
Carol Karlsen, Professor, History and Women's Studies. Primary Interests: American women's history; early American social and cultural history; gender and colonialism.
Howard Kimeldorf, Professor and Chair, Sociology. Primary Interests: Politics, class formation, globalization, historical method.
Joseph S. C. Lam, Professor, Music (Musicology). Primary Interests: Ethnomusicology; music historiography; East Asian Music; Asian American Music.
Kerry Larson, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature; Associate Professor, Graduate School Administration; Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School Administration. Primary Interests: American literature; contemporary American poetry.
Joanne Leonard, Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda pollock Distinguished University Professor of Art and Women's Studies. Primary Interests: Instruction in practice of photography as an art form: investigations of photographs as agents of memory, culture, history, identity: autobiography/biography/and narrative in photography (and text); photo collage; feminist issues in photography, visual culture studies.
Deborah Malamud, Professor, Law. Primary Interests: Labor and employment law; civil rights law; class and the law; affirmative action.
Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine, Professor, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases; Director, Center for the History of Medicine. Primary Interests: History and sociology of medicine, health care, and public health in 19th and 20th century United States; immigration.
Keren R. McGinity, Visiting Assistant Professor, Brown University. Primary Interests: U.S. women's/gender history, U.S. urban and social history, modern Jewish history.
Terrence McDonald, Professor, History; Dean of College of Literature, Science, and Arts. Primary Interests: American history; American urban history; economic history.
Barbra Meek, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Primary Interests: linguistic anthropology, endangered languages and language revitalization, Athabaskan.
Joshua L. Miller, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: Twentieth-Century U.S. literature, modernism/modernity, language politics, Sociolinguistics, Ethnic Studies, diasporic/exilic theory.
Michele Mitchell, Associate Professor, History and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies. Primary Interests: African American history; U.S. history (1860-1940); gender & sexuality; nationalism, African diaspora; feminist theory.
Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Professor, History. Primary Interests: American women's history; social history of medicine; history of the family; gender, race, class; 19th & 20th-century American social and cultural history.
Donna Nagata, Professor, Psychology. Primary Interests: Psychosocial consequences of the Japanese American internment; Asian American mental health, multicultural issues in psychotherapy; intergenerational and family relations.
Anita Norich, Professor, English and Judaic Studies. Primary Interests: Yiddish literature, Jewish American Culture.
Ivette Perfecto, Professor, Natural Resources & Environment. Primary Interests: Agricultural ecology and tropical ecology in Latin America; natural resources and sustainability issues in the Tropics; conservation of biodiversity.
Martin Pernick, Professor, History. Primary Interests: Biocultural history of health, disease and medicine.
Alisse Portnoy, Associate Professor, English.
Richard Primus, Professor, UM Law School.
David Schoem, Adjunct Associate Professor, Sociology; Director Michigan Community Scholars Program. Primary Interests: Intergroup relations; conflict and community; Jewish identity and the American Jewish community; multicultural organizational change; higher education reform; multicultural teaching.
Anatole Senkevitch, Associate Professor, Architecture and History of Art, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Primary Interests: American and Soviet architectural history; vernacular architecture; historic preservation.
Margaret Shih, Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology. Primary Interests: stereotypes, social identities and behavior of individuals being stereotyped, Asian Americans and stereotypes.
Andrew J. Shryock, Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Naomi Eavana Silver, Lecturer IV, Sweetland Writing Center.
Michael S. Spencer, Associate Professor, Social Work. Primary Interests: Race/Ethnicity and mental health; poverty and welfare; children and adolescents.
Gaylyn Studlar, Rudolf Arnheim Collegiate Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures, Professor of Women's Studies, Professor of Music, Professor of English Language and Literature. Primary Interests: Film Studies: Research in Gender and Film; Construction of Masculinity in Film; 1920's film and American Culture, melodrama; American film genres, particularly film noir; the western; the women's film. Psychoanalytic film theory and feminist cultural theory; consumerism and cultural theory.
Megan Sweeney, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, and Afroamerican & African Studies. Primary Interests: 20th-21st Century African American literature and culture; inter-American literatures; U.S. Latina/o literature; critical race studies; transnational feminist and gender studies, critical prison studies, cultural studies and ethnography.
J. Mills Thornton, Professor, History. Primary Interests: Southern U.S. history; history of U.S. 1820-1880; history of Civil Rights Movement, 1940-70; history of American Constitution; evolution of American political ideology.
John Tropman, Professor, School of Social Work; Adjunct Professor, School of Business. Primary Interests: Effective Group Decision Making; Effective Meetings; Values and Value Structure; Executive Calamity.
Derek Vaillant, Associate Professor, Communication Studies. Primary Interests: U.S. media and communication history; late nineteenth and early twentieth century urban social and cultural history; music and popular culture, ethnicity, race, and gender.
John Vandermeer, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Margaret Davis Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Acting Chair and Professor fo Ecology and Evolutionary Bio, Professor of Natural Resources & Environment. Primary Interests: Environmental sciences; environmental justice; race, class, gender and the environment; sustainable development; Latino/as and third world issues; science and society.
Edward West, Professor, School of Art and Design. Primary Interests: Perception and notation; light, space, and time.
Patricia Yaeger, Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Professor, English and Women's Studies. Primary Interests: Women's studies and feminist theory; southern literature; southern women writers.
Rebecca Zurier, Associate Professor, History of Art. Primary Interests: American art, material culture, architecture from colonial times to the present; art and the mass media; American culture at the turn of the 20th century; realism and representation; urban culture; histography.
