American Studies Faculty

Theater directing, filmmaking, acting

History of North American Indigenous Peoples; Ancient America; the American Revolution and Ohio Valley; the History of Three Sisters polyculture farming; Red Power and Indigenous Activism; Agricultural History and Corn

20th and 21st century hemispheric American studies; comparative literature; cultural studies; literary and critical theory; trans and queer studies; translation studies; autotheory

African American intellectual tradition; immigration, border studies and transnationalism; Atlantic history

Existentialism and phenomenology, Zen Buddhism, philosophy of art and philosophy of religion, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

American politics, women and politics, political reform.

African American, 20th Century U.S., Gender, Movement/s, and Education

LGBTQ Sociology, medical sociology, social psychology

Congress, political parties, public policy

Race and criminal justice, slavery and southern history, the dynamics of African-American identity formation

American Art and Visual Culture, Art and Government, Modern and Contemporary Art

Immigration, Latin American politics, global poverty, democratic theory in comparative perspective, political activism

Abolition; Black feminism; critiques of racial capitalism; prison and policing; cultural theory; autobiography; rhetorical tropes (metaphor/metonymy)

Hemispheric American literature, early and nineteenth-century, literature and environment, postcolonial studies, slave narrative and autobiography

African diaspora religions, religion in America, sociology of religion and Caribbean society and culture.

Photography, mixed media, drawing, art education.