Core Faculty
| Name and Title | Department | Research Topics |
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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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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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Amy Derogatis Associate Professor - |
Religious Studies | Sexuality and Gender in American Religious History |
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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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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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Sally Helvenston Associate Professor - |
Human Environment and Design | Historic dress and textiles, Material culture, Apparel design |
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Gary Hoppenstand Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | Popular Cultural Studies, Media Studies |
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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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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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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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Douglas Noverr Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Painting and Poetry, Sports History, Film History, Popular Culture |
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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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Stephen Rohs Associate Professor - |
American Studies | American Renaissance, 19th century cultural history, Irish immigration history, Ethnomusicology, Globalization, Cultural theory |
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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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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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Samuel Thomas Professor - |
History Department | Late 19th and 20th Century Intellectual, Cultural, and Political History, Modern American Catholic History |
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Arthur Versluis Associate Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Agratianism, Christian Esotericism |
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Edward Watts Professor - |
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures | American Literature to 1900; Religion, Nation, and Empire |
