Full-time Faculty
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Bonnie Miller Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 19th Century Social and Cultural History; Visual and Popular Culture; Race, Gender, War, and Empire

 

Rachel Rubin Ph.D., Yale University American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures, American Popular Music

 

Lois Rudnick Ph.D., Brown University U.S. Social and Cultural History, Immigration, American Literature, Modernism (American Studies and English Dept.)

 

Judith Smith 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 Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Southeast Asian American Community Studies; Ethnography; Transnational Feminism; Popular Culture

 

Lynnell Thomas Ph.D., Emory University African American Studies, American Literature and Culture, New Orleans Culture and History

 

Part-time Faculty

Paul Atwood 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)

 

Phil Chassler Ph.D., Brandeis University Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s

 

Patricia Raub 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

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.

Jean Humez, Ph.D., Yale University, Women Studies Program; Women’s Studies, American Literature, Social History

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

Esther Kingston-Mann, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, History Dept.; U.S.- Russian Relations, Comparative Society and Culture, Issues in U.S. Diversity

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

Steve Rudnick, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston, Environmental Studies Program; U.S. Environmental History, Environmental Science and Policy

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

Nancy Stieber, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Art Dept., History of Architecture

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