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Professor Gregory Dowd, Chair
Associate Professor Anthony Mora, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Philip Deloria (American Culture/History), (Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History and American Culture), 19th-century cultural history and theory; Native American history; history of the American West; American environmental history
Gregory Dowd (American Culture/History), Native American and Early American History
Julie Ellison (American Culture/English), public scholarship, poetry of everyday life, 18th & 19th century American and English literature, gender studies
Jonathan Freedman (American Culture/English) (Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor of English, American Studies, and Judaic Studies), late 19th-century British and American literature; cultural theory; film
June Howard (American Culture/English/Women's Studies) (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies), late 19th-century early 20th-century American Literature and Culture
Mary Kelley (American Culture/History) (Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's Studies), 19th-Century women's writers, women's intellectual history, American intellectual history
Scott Kurashige (American Culture), 20th-century U.S. History; Asian American History; Comparative Ethnic Studies
Tiya Miles (American Culture/Afroamerican Studies/History) (Elsa Barkley Brown Collegiate Professor of African American Women's History), African American and Native American Comparative and interrelated histories, women of color history, literature and feminist theory
Silvia Pedraza(American Culture/Sociology), the sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, the labor market incorporation of immigrants and ethnics in America, immigrants and refugees as social types, comparative studies of immigrants and ethnics in America, historical and contemporary
Alexandra Stern medical history, border culture, and gender history
Amy Stillman (American Culture), ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology music and dance
Penny Von Eschen (American Culture/History), transnational cultural and political dynamics; race, gender, and empire; the political culture of United States imperialism
Alan Wald (American Culture/English) (H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English and American Culture), 20th-century U.S. cultural Left; working-class culture
Magdalena Zaborowska (American Culture/Afroamerican Studies), Immigrant literatures, narrative and gender, cultural theory
Associate Professors
Evelyn Alsutany (American Culture), Arab-American Studies; mixed-race identities; media and popular culture; politics of race
Paul Anderson (American Culture/Afroamerican and African Studies), modern U.S. cultural history; cultural history of popular music
Maria Cotera (American Culture/Women's Studies), Latina/o gender studies; comparative ethnic studies; ethnography
Matthew Countryman (American Culture/History), African-American social movements; 20th-century U.S. history
Joseph P. Gone (Psychology), Mental Health Services for American Indians
Kristin Hass (American Culture), 20th-century cultural history; visual and material culture
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof(American Culture/History), Latino Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, transnational migrations, music, race and ethnicity
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (American Culture/Romance Languages & Literatures), Latina/o Studies, queer studies, Latina/o diasporic studies, Latin American literary and cultural studies
Scott Richard Lyons (American Culture/English Language and Literature), Native American literature and culture, colonial discourse and representation, animal studies and posthumanism, literature of "discovery," encounter, and conquest
Anthony Mora (American Culture/History), 19th-century United States, historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S., Mexican-American history, Latino/a history, the history of sexuality
Nadine Naber (American Culture/Women's Studies), interdisciplinary Arab-American studies, particularly focusing on gender, religion, urban and diasporic populations
Susan Najita(American Culture/English), Pacific literatures in English; 20th-century American literature
Yeidy Rivero (American Culture/Screen Arts & Culture), Television studies, race and media, global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies
Xiomara Santamarina (American Culture/Afroamerican Studies/English), 19th Century African-American literatures with a primary focus on autobiography and slave narrative, antebellum fiction and prose, economic criticism, theories of value, race and labor
Gustavo Verdesio (American Culture/Romance Languages and Literatures), Colonial studies, Native American Studies, pre-contact indigenous studies, material culture
Michael Witgen (American Culture/History), Native American history and culture, early American history, ethno-history, transnational history
Assistant Professors
Stephen Berrey (American Culture/History), African-American cultural history, the U.S. South, Black resistance and protests in the 20th century, the African diaspora
Lori Brooks (American Culture/Afroamerican Studies), African-American art & subcultures, popular culture, national & global identities, sexuality and gender
Amy Carroll (American Culture/English), Latina/o Studies; performance studies; multicultural literature studies
John Cheney-Lippold (American Culture), Digital Environments
Colin Gunckel (American Culture/Screen Arts and Cultures), American film history, Chicano/Latino file and media, Chicano/Latino music cultures, Chicano/Latino print culture, cultural studies, documentary exploitation films, film genres, globalization, historiography, Latin American cinema, Latinos and urban space, media exhibition and reception, Mexican cinema, national cinemas, Latin American cinema, and Third-World cinema
Brandi Hughes (American Culture/History), North American religion, African-American religious and intellectual history
Daniel Ramirez (American Culture/History), American religious history; cultural anthropology, Latin American cultural studies, Reformation history
Lecturers
Gerarld Carr (American Culture/Anthropology)
Bruce Conforth (American Culture), popular culture, ethnomusicology, and folklore
Judith Daubenmier (American Culture), Native American History
Rima Hassouneh (American Culture/Near Eastern Studies), Arab-American literature, Muslim and Arab identities in the U.S., modern Arabic literature, teaching Arabic (modern standard and colloquial) as a foreign language
Howard Kimewon (American Culture), Ojibwe language and culture
Emily Lawsin (American Culture/Women's Studies), Asian American Studies, Filipino American women, literature, history, education, and media analysis, oral history of working class women, comparative ethnic literature
Margaret Noori, Ojibwe language and culture, Native American literature
Richard Meisler (American Culture), contemporary American social problems and cultural trends, educational philosophy
Alphonse Pitawanakwat (American Culture), Ojibwe language and culture
Jason Wright (American Culture/Residential College)