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

