Research Topics: Ethnicity and Race Studies

Name and Title Department Research Topics
Diana Berry
Associate Professor
-
History 19th Century American History, Comparative Slavely and Southern History
Roger J.J. Bresnahan
Professor
-
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Racial and Ethnic History, History and Literature of the Philippines
Sheila Contreras
Assistant Professor
-
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Latina Feminism, Literary Primitivism, Travel Literature and Theory
George Cornell
Associate Professor
Director of the Native American Institute
History Native American Studies
Katherine Fishburn
Associate Professor
-
English Department African-American Literature and Theory, Cultural Studies, Women's Literature and Theory
Barry Gross
Associate Professor
-
English Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Fictions and Drama, Holocaust Study
Salah Hassan
Professor
Director of English Honors Program
English Department Anti-Colonial Intellectual Movements, Postcolonial literature and theory
Gordon Henry, Jr.
Associate Professor
Director of Creative Writing
English Department Native American Studies, American literature, creative writing
Dagmar Herzog
Associate Professor
-
History German History; History of Sexuality, Feminist, Post-Structuralist and Queer Theory; Critical Race Theory; Post-Holocaust Memory
Patrick LeBeau
Associate Professor
-
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Native American Studies
Yvonne R. Lockwood
Associate Professor
-
Museum East European Culture, Ethnic Folklife and Folklore
Sheng-Mei Ma
Professor
-
English Department Identity Politics, Asian American Immigration
Theresa Melendez
Associate Professor
-
English Department Chicano/a Literature, Mexican Folklife, Oral Traditions
William Penn
Associate Professor
-
English Department Oral Tradition, Creative Writing, American Identities, Cross-cultural Studies
Malea Powell
Associate Professor
-
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Native American Studies, American Indian Rhetoric
Stephen Rohs
Associate Professor
-
American Studies American Renaissance, 19th century cultural history, Irish immigration history, Ethnomusicology, Globalization, Cultural theory
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Associate Professor
-
History Department 18th and 19th Century U.S. and Native American History; Gender
Richard Thomas
Professor
-
History Department 20th Century United States; Urban Studies, Race and Poverty
Kenneth Waltzer
Professor
Director of IAH, Jewish Studies CAL
IAH Social and Political History, Urban, Immigration, Labor, and Minority History, Modern Jewish History
Jeff Wray
Associate Professor
-
English Department Black Cinema, Film Studies