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2022 - 2023 Graduate Catalog 
    
2022 - 2023 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

American Studies Faculty


DIRECTOR

Charles F. McGovern Associate Professor (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard).

GRADUATE DIRECTOR

Elizabeth Losh (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies, English, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine).

PROFESSORS

Michael L. Blakey (National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Africana Studies, and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) (on leave Spring 2023),  Leisa D. Meyer (American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) (on leave Fall 2022), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University), and Simon A. Stow (John Marshall Professor, Government and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley).

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Alan C. Braddock (Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Environmental Science & Policy) (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 2022-2023), Hannah Rosen (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago) (on leave 2022-2023), and M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis).

AFFILIATES

Jamel Donnor (Clairborne Stephens Distinguished Associate Professor of Education and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Monica Griffin (Director, Engaged Scholarship and Sharpe Community Scholars Program) (Ph.D., University of Virginia).

EMERITA PROFESSORS

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), 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).