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Full-time Faculty
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Assistant Professor 19th Century Social and Cultural History; Visual and Popular Culture; Race, Gender, War, and Empire |
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Assistant Professor |
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Professor American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures, American Popular Music |
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Acting Chair Gender and Sexuality, 20th Century Cultural History |
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Professor U.S. Social and Cultural History, Ethnicity and Immigration, Women’s History, Urban History, Film and History of Media |
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Associate Professor Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Southeast Asian American Community Studies; Ethnography; Transnational Feminism; Popular Culture |
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Assistant Professor African American Studies, American Literature and Culture, New Orleans Culture and History |
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Paul Atwood Lecturer U.S Foreign Relations, 20th-century American Political and Social History (William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences) |
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Lecturer II Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s |
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Patricia Raub Lecturer II 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




















