Dec 04, 2024  
2023 - 2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023 - 2024 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 (NEH Professor) (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst) (on leave Fall 2023), Alan C. Braddock (Art History, American Studies, and Environmental Science & Policy) (Ph.D., University of Delaware),  Leisa D. Meyer (American Studies, History, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) (on leave Spring 2024), 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

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), Hannah Rosen (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), and M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis).

TEACHING PROFESSOR

Lily M. Kunda Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor (Africana Studies and American Studides) (Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas).

AFFILIATES

Jamel Donnor (Clairborne Stephens Distinguished 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).