All Affiliated Faculty
| Name and Title | Department | Research Topics |
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Marcia Aldrich Associate Professor - |
English | 20th Century American Poetry; memoir, literary nonfiction, and personal writing |
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Stephen Arch Associate Professor - |
English | American Literature of Colonial and Revolutional Era |
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David Bailey Associate Professor - |
History | 19th Century American History, Sectarian Religious Thoughts; U.S. West, U.S. South, U.S. Business and Economics |
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Jenifer Banks Professor - |
English | 19th Century American Fiction; Women and Fiction |
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Gretchen Barbatsis Associate Professor - |
Telecom & Media | Telecommunication and Media |
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Peter Beattie Associate Professor - |
History | Brazil, Latin America, Masculinity, Social History, Cultural History, Institutional History |
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Phil Bellfy Associate Professor American Indian Studies Program |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Literature of Colonial and Revolutional Era |
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Maenette Benham Associate Professor - |
Education | The Impact of educational policy processes on indigenous groups |
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Diana Berry Associate Professor - |
History | 19th Century American History, Comparative Slavely and Southern History |
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John Bratzel Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures | Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
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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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Maria Bruno Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Women’s Studies, Popular Culture, Media Studies |
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Jeff Charnley Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Oral History and Methodology |
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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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David Cooper Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Public Culture Studies, Rhetoric in the Public Interests |
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George Cornell Associate Professor Director of the Native American Institute |
History | Native American Studies |
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Pero Dagbovie Associate Professor - |
History | African American History and Culture |
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Christine Daniels Assistant Professor - |
History | Colonial American History, Labor History, Domestic Violence in Colonial North America |
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Joe Darden Associate Professor - |
Geography | Urban social geography |
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Amy Derogatis Associate Professor - |
Religious Studies | Sexuality and Gender in American Religious History |
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Danielle Devoss Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Impact of the Internet and the web on North American Culture, Web Authoring, Visual Rhetoric |
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Kurt C. Dewhurst Professor Director & Co-Curator of Folk Arts |
English Department | Museum Studies, Folk Arts, Material Culture, Occupational Folk Culture |
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Alice Dreger Associate Professor - |
History & Philosophy of Science | History and Philosophy of Science |
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Aime Ellis Assistant Professor - |
English Department | 20th century Black male autobiography, fiction, and Black popular culture and social history; Race and Gender; African Diaspora |
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Jennifer Fay Associate Professor Co-Director of Film Studies |
English Department | Global Film History, Film Theory, Film Studies |
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Kirsten Fermaglich Associate Professor - |
History | Jewish Studies, 20th Century American Jewish History |
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Lisa Fine Associate Professor - |
History | Labor History, Women's History, and Social History |
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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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Maureen Flanagan Associate Professor - |
History | U.S. Progressive Era, U.S. Urban History and Comparative Processes of Urbanization, Women and Politics |
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Marilyn Frye University Distinguished Professor Associate Dean of graduate studies in the College of Arts and Letters |
Philosophy | Feminist Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language |
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Kathleen Geisler Associate Professor Chair: Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | -- |
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Barry Gross Associate Professor - |
English | Jewish-American Literature and Culture, Fictions and Drama, Holocaust Study |
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Kenneth Haltman Assistant Professor - |
Art and Art History | Art Production and Material Culture, 17th to 20th Century |
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Craig Harris Associate Professor - |
Sociology | Social and biogeophysical dynamics of coupled human-natural systems; Fisheries, including the Michigan Great Lakes; Agriculture and the biogeophysical environment; Agrifood systems, |
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Kenneth Harrow Professor - |
English Department | African literature and cinema, postcolonialism, feminism, and African Diaspora studies |
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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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Sally Helvenston Associate Professor - |
Human Environment and Design | Historic dress and textiles, Material culture, Apparel design |
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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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Gary Hoppenstand Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Popular Cultural Studies, Media Studies |
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Isaac Kalumbu Associate Professor - |
Music | Folk Arts, Ethnomusicology |
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Stan Kaplowitz Associate Professor - |
Sociology | Social psychology, especially of attitudes and communication; quantitative methods |
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Kelly Klump Associate Professor - |
Psychology | Eating Disorders: Etiology, Developmental differences, Relationships between temperament, mood and anxiety disorders; Gene-environment interactions and correlations |
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Mark Kornbluh Professor Chairman of History Department, Director of MATRIX |
History | Modern American Political History |
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Susan Krouse Associate Professor Director, American Indian Studies Program |
Anthropology | Urban American Indian communities, ethnohistorical research |
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Stephen Lacy Professor - |
Communication, School of Journalism | Media economics, content analysis methodology, news sociology, Internet content |
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Larry Landrum Associate Professor - |
English Department | Popular Culture, Film, American Literature |
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Ann Larabee Professor Acting Director, American Studies Program |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Disaster Studies; Cultural Impacts of Technology, Cultural Theory, Feminism and Technology, History of Terrorism |
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Michael Largey Professor Professor of Ethnomusicology and Area Chair of Musicology |
Music | Carribean Music, Ethnographic Fieldwork and Theory |
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Patrick LeBeau Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Native American Studies |
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Kenneth Lewis Professor - |
Anthropology | Historical archaeology, frontiers and colonization; Eastern North America |
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Hilde Lindemann Professor - |
Philosophy | Practical Ethics (esp. bioethics), Feminist Philosophy, Moral Philosophy |
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Kimberly Little Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Social and Political History, Progressive-Era History, 20th Century Urban Studies |
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Yvonne R. Lockwood Associate Professor - |
Museum | East European Culture, Ethnic Folklife and Folklore |
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Andrea Louie Associate Professor Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies |
Anthropology | Transnational Processes and Identities, China, and Asian Americans |
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Kathryn Lowerre Associate Professor - |
College of Music | History of Western Music to 1750, Baroque Music, Women in Music, Opera History |
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Sheng-Mei Ma Professor - |
English Department | Identity Politics, Asian American Immigration |
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Marsha L. MacDowell Professor - |
Art and Art History | Material Culture, Art Education, and Women's Culture |
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Kristie Macrakis Associate Professor - |
History Department Lyman Briggs |
History of Science, German Science in the Twentieth Century, Espionage History |
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Robert A. Martin Associate Professor - |
English Department | 19th and 20th Century American Literature and American Drama |
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Ellen McCallum Associate Professor - |
English Department | Feminist Theory, Psychoanalysis, Critical and Literary Theory, 20th Century American Literature |
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Robert McKinley Associate Professor - |
Department of Religious Studies | Religion patterns in South East Asia, including indigenous Anthropology and ritual; Trends within Malaysian Islam; revival of Native American ritual. |
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Theresa Melendez Associate Professor - |
English Department | Chicano/a Literature, Mexican Folklife, Oral Traditions |
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Scott Michaelsen Associate Professor - |
English Department | Cultural Studies Theory, Theory and History of Social Science |
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Leslie Moch Associate Professor - |
History Department | Migration, Immigration, Modern Western Europe, Family, Social History |
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Douglas Noverr Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Painting and Poetry, Sports History, Film History, Popular Culture |
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Patrick O'Donnell Associate Professor - |
English Department | Postmodern LIterature and Culture, History and Theory of Narrative |
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Lynette Overby Associate Professor Director of PILA, The Program for Interdisciplinary Learning through the Arts |
Department of Theatre | Movement for Actors, Arts Across the Curriculum |
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William Penn Associate Professor - |
English Department | Oral Tradition, Creative Writing, American Identities, Cross-cultural Studies |
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Ellen Pollak Professor - |
English Department | Eighteenth-century British literature |
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Alan Posner Associate Professor - |
Political Science | Social Differentiation, Political Culture, Popular Culture, Politics and Literature |
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Malea Powell Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Native American Studies, American Indian Rhetoric |
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Stephen Rachman Associate Professor - |
English Department | 19th Century American Literature, History of Medicine |
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Dean Rehberger Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Information Design and Archtecture, Public History |
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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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Judith Roof Professor - |
English Department | Film/twentieth-century American literature |
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Lisa Shwartzman Associate Professor - |
Department of Philosophy | Feminist Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics |
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Randall Scott Librarian - |
MSU Library | Special Collections, American Radicalism Collection, Comic Art Collection |
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James Seaton Professor - |
English Department | 19th and 20th Century Literature, Cultural Studies |
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Robert Shelton Associate Professor - |
Lyman Briggs College History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science |
Late-19th and early-20th century British literature; the philosophy, sociology, and history of science; American Renaissance; science fiction and literary utopias; film theory and history; nonfiction genres; H. G. Wells; the natural environment: perceptions and practices; medicine and the humanities; composition pedagogy. |
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Sayuri Shimizu Associate Professor - |
History Department | U.S. Foreign Relations, US-East Asian Relations, Globalization, History of Sports |
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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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Leonora Smith Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | imagination and invention in writing, writing and women's issues, American women's poetry and fiction, writing and issues of access, social reform, and community outreach |
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Geneva Smitherman University Distinguished Professor Director of the African American Language and Literacy Program |
English Department | Sociolinguistics; African American Language and Literacy |
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Linda Stanford Professor - |
Art and Art History | 20th Century American Architecture, Women's Role in Arts |
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Keely Stauter-Halsted Associate Professor - |
History Department | Modern Eastern Europe, Poland, Jewish History |
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Curtis Stokes Associate Professor Director of African American and African Studies |
James Madison College, Political Science | Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy |
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David Stowe Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | 20th Century Cultural History, Music |
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Thomas Summerhill Professor - |
History Department | 19th Century America, Civil War & Reconstruction, Political and Social, Rural, Popular/Grassroots Political Movements, Labor |
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Sheila Teahan Associate Professor - |
English Department | 19th Century American Literature |
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Richard Thomas Professor - |
History Department | 20th Century United States; Urban Studies, Race and Poverty |
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Samuel Thomas Professor - |
History Department | Late 19th and 20th Century Intellectual, Cultural, and Political History, Modern American Catholic History |
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Paul Thompson Professor W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics |
Philosophy Department (partial appointments: Agricultural Economics, Resource Development) |
American pragmatist approaches in practical ethics, Environmental ethics, Risks and ethics of agricultural and food biotechnology, Science policy, Philosophy of technology, Philosophy of economics |
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Colleen Tremonte Associate Professor - |
Writing and American Culture | American Literature, Culture, and Politics |
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Arthur Versluis Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Agratianism, Christian Esotericism |
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William Vincent Professor - |
English Department | Film Studies |
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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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Edward Watts Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Literature to 1900; Religion, Nation, and Empire |
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Steven Weiland Professor Director of the Jewish Studies Program |
Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education | Education, Jewish Studies |
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Jeff Wray Associate Professor - |
English Department | Black Cinema, Film Studies |
