Our graduate program faculty include:
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Judith Smith PhD, Brown University U.S. Social and Cultural History, Ethnicity and Immigration, Women’s History, Urban History, Film and History of Media |
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Philip Chassler PhD, Brandeis University Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s (Visiting Lecturer 2002-2006) |
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Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 19th Century Social and Cultural History; Visual and Popular Culture; Race, Gender, War, and Empire |
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Rachel Rubin PhD, Yale University American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures, American Popular Music |
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Lois Rudnick PhD, Brown University U.S. Social and Cultural History, Immigration, American Literature, Modernism (American Studies and English Dept.) |
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Shirley Tang PhD, SUNY Buffalo Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Southeast Asian American Community Studies; Ethnography; Transnational Feminism; Popular Culture |
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Lynnell Thomas PhD, Emory University African American Studies, American Literature and Culture, New Orleans Culture and History |
Affiliated Faculty
Paul Atwood, Ph.D. American Studies, Boston University. American Studies/William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences; War in American Culture, History of U.S. Wars in the 20 the Century
Reebee Garofalo, EdD Harvard University. Community Media and Technology, College of Public and Community Service. History of Popular Music, Race and Popular Music
James Green, PhD Yale University. General Center, 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, PhD, Yale University, Women Studies Program; Women’s Studies, American Literature, Social History
Paul Watanabe, PhD, Harvard University, Political Science Dept.; American foreign policy, American political behavior, ethnic group politics, and Asian Americans
Julie Winch, PhD African American History, History Dept. Antebellum Free People of Color; Maritime History













