American Studies — Faculty

Paul Atwood (Joiner Center), PhD, Boston University • War in American Culture • History of US Wars in the Twentieth Century

Jonathan Chu (History Department), MSL, Yale University, PhD, University of Washington • Colonial America • American Revolution • American Legal History

Linda Dittmar (English Department), PhD, Stanford University • Narrative Theory • Feminist Theory • Film • Women Writers

Reebee Garofalo (College of Public and Community Service), EdD, Harvard University • History of Popular Music • Race and Popular Music

James Green (Labor Studies Program), PhD, Yale University • Post-Civil War US Social and Political History • Labor and Protest Movements • Popular Expressions of Consciousness • Public History

Jean Humez (Women’s Studies Department), PhD, Yale University • Nineteenth Century US Women’s History and Culture • Afro-American Women’s Autobiography • Shaker Women’s History • Oral History

Peter Kiang (American Studies Department, Graduate College of Education), EdD, Harvard University • Education and Asian Minorities • Minority and Immigrant Community Development
• Legacies of the Vietnam War

Bonnie Miller (American Studies Department), PhD, Johns Hopkins University • 19th Century US Cultural History • Visual Culture • History of Race, Gender, and American Empire

Rachel Rubin (American Studies Department), PhD, Yale University • American Popular Music • Ethnic Literatures • American Literature and the Left

Lois Rudnick (American Studies Department, English Department), PhD, Brown University • Social and Cultural History • American and Ethnic Literatures • Literature and Arts of the Southwest

Judith E Smith (American Studies Department), PhD, Brown University • Ethnicity and Race • Cultural Studies • Twentieth Century US Social and Women’s History

Shirley Suet-ling Tang (American Studies Department/Asian American Studies), PhD, State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo • Comparative Race, Ethnicity, and Culture • Southeast Asian American Community Studies • Ethnography • Transnational Feminism

Lynnell Thomas (American Studies Department) PhD, Emory University • African American Studies • American Literature and Culture • New Orleans Culture and History

Paul Watanabe (Institute for Asian American Studies, Political Science Department, Director of American Studies Summer Institute), PhD, Harvard University • American Foreign Policy • Political Behavior • Ethnic Group Politics • Asian American Studies

Julie Winch (History Department), PhD, Bryn Mawr College • African-American History • Antebellum Free People of Color • Maritime History