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American Studies › graduate program faculty

Our graduate program faculty include:

judith   Judith Smith
PhD, Brown University
U.S. Social and Cultural History, Ethnicity and Immigration, Women’s History, Urban History, Film and History of Media

 

philip   Philip Chassler
PhD, Brandeis University
Early 20th-century American Fiction; Realism, Naturalism, and Modernism; Proletarian literature of the 1930s (Visiting Lecturer 2002-2006)


miller  

Bonnie Miller

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

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

 

rachel   Rachel Rubin
PhD, Yale University
American Popular Culture, Ethnic Literatures,
American Popular Music

 

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

 

shirley   Shirley Tang
PhD, SUNY Buffalo
Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture; Southeast Asian American Community Studies; Ethnography; Transnational Feminism; Popular Culture

 

Lynnell Thomas   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