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Full-time Faculty
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Bonnie Miller  

Bonnie Miller

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

19th Century Social and Cultural History; Visual and Popular Culture; Race, Gender, War, and Empire

 

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Marisol Negron

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
Latino Literary and Cultural Studies


 

Rachel Rubin  

Rachel Rubin

Professor
Ph.D., Yale University

American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures, American Popular Music

 

Aaron Lecklider  

Aaron Lecklider

Acting Chair
Ph.D., Boston University

Gender and Sexuality, 20th Century Cultural History

 

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Judith Smith

Professor
Ph.D., Brown University

U.S. Social and Cultural History, Ethnicity and Immigration, Women’s History, Urban History, Film and History of Media

 

Shirley Tang  

Shirley Tang

Associate Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo

Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Southeast Asian American Community Studies; Ethnography; Transnational Feminism; Popular Culture

 

Lynnell Thomas  

Lynnell Thomas

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University

African American Studies, American Literature and Culture, New Orleans Culture and History

 

Part-time Faculty

Paul Atwood  

Paul Atwood

Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston University

U.S Foreign Relations, 20th-century American Political and Social History

(William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences)

 

Philip Chassler  

Phil Chassler

Lecturer II
Ph.D., Brandeis University

Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s

 

Patricia Raub  

Patricia Raub

Lecturer II
Ph.D., Bowling Green University

U.S. Social and Cultural History, History of American Photography, History of American Architecture, U.S. Urban History

 

Administrative and Support Staff

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Shauna Lee Manning

Administrative Assistant in the American Studies Department

 

Faculty Based in Departments and Other Programs

Chukwuma Azuonye, Ph.D., University of London, Africana Studies Dept.; Africana Studies, African and African-American Folklore

Amy Den Ouden, Ph.D., University of Connecticut, Anthropology Dept.; Historical Anthropology; Native North America; Colonialism and the Construction of “Race”; Gender

Reebee Garofalo, Ed.D., Harvard University, College of Public and Community Service; History of Popular Music, Race and Popular Music

James Green, Ph.D., Yale University, College of Public and Community Service; Post Civil War U.S. Social and Political History, Labor and Protest Movements, Popular Expressions of Consciousness, Public History.

Peter Kiang, Ed.D., Harvard University, Asian American Studies, Multicultural Education (Graduate College of Education, Asian American Studies and Department of American Studies)

Betsy Klimasmith, Ph.D., University of Washington, English Dept.; Nineteenth and Early 20th- Century American Literature and Culture; Urban Literature and Culture; American Women Writers

Shaun O’Connell, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, English Dept.; Irish American Literature and Culture, 20th-Century American Fiction

Tim Sieber, Ph.D., New York University, Anthropology Dept.; Community Studies, Socialization and Education, Urban Anthropology, Urban Public Culture, Multiculturalism

Nancy Stieber, Ph.D., M.I.T., Art Dept., History of Architecture

Susan Tomlinson, Ph.D., Brown University, English Dept.; African American Literature, the Harlem Renaissance, Gender and Modernism