Apr 19, 2024  
2020 - 2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020 - 2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

American Studies Faculty


DIRECTOR

Leisa D. Meyer Professor (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),  Grey Gundaker (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Yale), Elizabeth Losh (English, American Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University), and Simon A. Stow (Government and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Alan C. Braddock (Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Delaware), Jamel Donnor (Clairborne Stephens Distinguished Associate Professor of Education and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), 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), Charles F. McGovern (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard), and M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis).

AFFILIATES

Monica Griffin (Director, Engaged Scholarship and Sharpe Community Scholars Program) (Ph.D., University of Virginia), and Kara Thompson (Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Northern Arizona University) (Ph.D., University of California - Davis).

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Scott Challener (American Studies and English) (Ph.D., Rutgers University).
EMERITA PROFESSORS

Susan V. Donaldson (National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brown University), Sally H. Price (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), and Susan V. Webster (Jane W. Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin).

EMERITUS PROFESSORS

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