Feb 03, 2026  
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025 - 2026 Graduate Catalog

American Studies Faculty


DIRECTOR

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

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), 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 2026), Francesca Sawaya (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Cornell University) (on leave 2025-26), and Simon A. Stow (John Marshall Professor, Government and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley). 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

Michelle Lelievre (Anthropology and American Studies) (Ph.D., University of Chicago), Amy Malek (Anthropology and American Studies) (Ph.D, UCLA), and Charles F. McGovern (History and American Studies) (Ph.D., Harvard). 

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

Alyssa Quintanilla (Art History and American Studies) (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) and Eugenia Rainey (Religious Studies and American Studies) (Ph.D. Tulane University). 

TEACHING PROFESSORS

Erin Barry Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor (Ph.D., Washington University, St Louis), Juan Camilo Cajigas Associate Teaching Professor (Ph.D., University of California-Davis), and Lily M. Kunda Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor (Africana Studies and American Studies) (Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas).

AFFILIATE

Jamel Donnor (The Fred Huby Memorial Professor of Education) (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison), Monica Griffin (Director, Engaged Scholarship and the Sharpe Community Scholars Program) (Ph.D., University of Virginia), and Arthur L. Knight (Diamond Term Associate Professor) (English) (Ph.D., University of Chicago). 

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).

EMERITA ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS

M. Lynn Weiss (English and American Studies) (Ph.D., Brandeis). 

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).