Apr 18, 2024  
2018 - 2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018 - 2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

American Studies Faculty


DIRECTOR

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

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Hannah Rosen Associate Professor (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago).

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 Fall 2018), Grey Gundaker (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Yale) (on leave Spring 2019), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University), Robert J. Scholnick (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis), Simon A. Stow (Government and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley), and Susan V. Webster (Jane W. Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) (on leave Spring 2019).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Alan C. Braddock (Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Delaware), Arthur L. Knight (Diamond Term Associate Professor) (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), Michelle Leliévre (Anthropology and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago) (on leave 2018-2019), Elizabeth Losh (English, American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine), Charles F. McGovern (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard), and M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis).

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Kara Thompson (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California - Davis) (on leave 2018-2019).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Jenna Hunnef (American Studies and English) (Ph.D., University of Toronto).

AFFILIATES 

Jamel Donnor (Education) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), Monica Griffin (Sharpe Community Scholars Program) (Ph.D., University of Virginia), and Max Katz (Music) (Ph.D., University of California-Santa Barbara).

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).