Apr 25, 2024  
2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog 
    
2017 - 2018 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

American Studies Faculty


DIRECTOR

Leisa D. Meyer William & Mary Community Studies Professor of History, American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Alan C. Braddock Associate Professor (Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies).

PROFESSORS

Michael L. Blakey (National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Susan V. Donaldson (National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brown University) (on leave 2017-2018), Grey Gundaker (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Yale), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University), Robert J. Scholnick (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis), and Susan V. Webster (Jane W. Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Chandos M. Brown (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard), Arthur L. Knight (Diamond Term Associate Professor) (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), Elizabeth Losh (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine), Charles F. McGovern (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard), Hannah Rosen (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), and M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis).

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Michelle Leliévre (Anthropology and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), and Kara Thompson (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California - Davis).

EMERITA PROFESSOR

Sally H. Price (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins). 

EMERITUS PROFESSORS

Richard S. Price (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History) (Ph.D., Harvard),  and Alan Wallach (Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies) (Ph.D., Columbia).