Associate Professor, American Studies
Research Interests
cultural study of 20th century U.S. music; 20th century U.S. intellectual and cultural history; 20th century African-American intellectual and cultural history; american studies methodologies; past and present; critical theory (past and present) and affect theory; U.S. arts and popular culture (esp. 1920-1980)
Assistant Professor
CRRES Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Interests
US-Mexico border studies; latinx studies; experimental ethnographic writing; affect and materiality
Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, American Studies
Research Interests
intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy
Director of American Indian Studies Research Center
Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor
Department of American Studies
Department of History
Research Interests
Asian American and Asian Canadian studies; transnational American studies; afterlife of wartime incarceration; wartime prisons on Native land
Associate Professor, Gender Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, American Studies
Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor, History
Adjunct Associate Professor, Human Biology
Research Interests
history of gender and sexuality in the united states; feminist and queer theory; rural social and cultural history; nineteenth and twentieth century American literature
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies
Research Interests
Asian American and Asian Diasporic literature and culture; Pacific Islander literature and culture; US imperialism and militarism; feminist science, technology and medicine studies; food studies
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, Latino Studies Program
Associate Director, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Research Interests
Black and Latinx studies; social movements, constructions of race and ethnicity, trauma and healing, mental health, abolition
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
Interdisciplinary creative scholarship, public feeling and affect theory, uncanny conspiracy theory, neurodivergence in culture, human/non-human animal interaction, indigenous film and literature.
Chair, American Studies
Professor, Department of American Studies
Professor, Department of History
Research Interests
U.S. labor history; comparative U.S./south African history; civil rights; history of the American left
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program
Research Interests
race and feminist theory; Indigenous, Latinx and Latin American studies; visual culture; popular music
Professor, American Studies
Professor, History
Research Interests
race in the Americas; racial theory; transnational method; popular culture; Brazil; Latin American studies; history; mass incarceration; the cold war; postcolonial and queer theory; cultural studies
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
On British Academy Global Professorship until 2024
Research Interests
gothic literature in the African diaspora; American gothic literature; horror film studies; twentieth century American literature
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests
American art and visual culture, photography and race/racial difference, the Harlem/Negro Renaissance and WPA art; satire, caricature, stereotype, and appropriation in art and visual culture
Professor, American Studies Department
Professor, Asian American Studies Program
On Sabbatical 2024-2025
Research Interests
Asian American and comparative ethnic studies; disability studies; gender and sexuality studies
The College of Arts