Dec 17, 2024  
2019 - 2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019 - 2020 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), Grey Gundaker (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies and Anthropology) (Ph.D., Yale) (on leave Fall 2019), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University) (on leave 2019-2020), Robert J. Scholnick (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis) (on leave 2019-2020), and Simon A. Stow (Government and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley) (on leave 2019-2020).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Alan C. Braddock (Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Delaware) (on leave 2019-2020), 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), 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) (on leave Spring 2020).

COURTESY PROFESSOR

Susan V. Webster (Jane W. Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin).

COURTESY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Kara Thompson (Ph.D., University of California - Davis).

AFFILIATES 

Jamel Donnor (William & Mary Clairborne Stephens Distingusihed Associate Professor of Education) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Monica Griffin (Director, Engaged Scholarship and Sharpe Community Scholars Program).

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).