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Bowling Green State University
American Culture Studies

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: In-state graduate $5,404 per semester, out-of-state $9,058

Deadlines: Admissions, no deadline; financial aid 2/1

Financial Aid: Graduate teaching/research assistantships. Appointments for academic year. PhD stipends $10,740 plus fee and tuition waiver. MA stipends $7,635 plus fee and tuition waiver

Enrollment: 22 MA, 45 PhD

Affiliations and Internships: The Center for Archival Collections provides extensive resources for regional research; the Great Lakes Research Center supports opportunities for research in maritime history; and the Rutherford B. Hayes Museum and Library contains a collection of presidential papers and sources for the study of 19th-century America. In addition, the Popular Culture Library and the Popular Music Library contain extensive collections of film, video, and audio materials

Program Specializations: PhD concentration in English, Ethnic Studies History, Sociology, Popular Culture, Philosophy, Communications; minor concentrations in these fields plus American Culture Studies and Women’s Studies

Program Specializations: Two PhD academic tracks: Popular Culture, Folklore, and Media; Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Identity

The newly reorganized PhD program in American Culture Studies is an innovative degree program comprising an intellectual community of several academic programs and departments. It features two newly configured interdisciplinary academic tracks from which student choose their major concentration: (1) Popular Culture, Folklore, and Media; and (2) Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Identity. These major concentrations are focused on the academic strengths of the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Popular Culture Department and the Women’s Studies Program at Bowling Green State University and reflect a new collaborative arrangement between these three academic units and the American Culture Studies PhD program. The American Culture Studies PhD program also draws on faculty from the following departments and graduate programs: Communication Studies, English, History, philosophy, Sociology, Theater and Telecommunications. Flexible as to both methods and goals, the PhD in American Culture Studies can meet the diverse needs of a variety of students who seek advanced graduate study as preparation for careers in a variety of academic fields, museums, cultural and historical organizations, or similar institutions requiring both breadth and depth of understanding of American culture in its national and diasporic contexts.

The interdisciplinary MA program in American Culture Studies is designed around the concept of culture, which serves to unify study of the many discrete aspects of our historical, social, intellectual, and artistic heritage. Required courses in History, and Methods and Theories of American Culture Studies stress appropriate theories of culture study while other American Culture Studies offerings explore particular themes, issues, and periods from an interdisciplinary perspective. This program offers a foundation in the study of American culture for students with a variety of interests and goals.

American Culture Studies Joint Appointments

BERRY, Ellen, Department of English; Contemporary critical theory/20th Century Culture Studies (especially feminist theory, theories of the avant garde, theories of modernism and postmodernism, transcultural studies, postcommunist studies); 20th Century Women Writers (especially experimental forms of writing; Narrative Literature (including modern and contemporary fiction, narrative theory, history of the novel).

COATES, Kim, Department of American Culture Studies; nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century American and British literature, in addition to feminism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.

LUIBHEID, Eithne, Department of Ethnic Studies; global immigration, immigration and race, sexuality, feminist studies

MARTIN, Scott, Department of History (US Social and Cultural History [esp. 19th century]; History of Leisure; Gender; Temperance; Historiography

McQUARIE, Donald, Department of Sociology; social theory (esp. Neo-Marxism), state and politics, intellectual history, socialism in America, sociology of culture, American political culture

OSMAURE, Halifu, Department of Dance; Cultural Studies and African Americans Studies, with an emphasis on how African American performance has historically utilized resistance, complicity, and play in relation to structures of power.

PATRAKA, Vivian, Director, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (20th-Century American Theater and Performance; Feminist Studies [in relation to theater and visual art]; Performance Studies [theater and public spectacle with a focus on fascism; genocide, public discourse, and museums])

STAUB, Michael, Department of English (20th Century American Literary and Cultural History; Critical Race Studies; American Documentary and Ethnographic Expression, including Films; Narratives of the American Community; History of Journalism; Methodologies of American Studies; U.S. literary and political culture, 1950s-1990s; Nonfiction genres; Holocaust consciousness and Black-Jewish dialogue

TERRIE, Philip, Department of English; American environmental literature, American culture studies, American fiction

WYLAM, Lisa, Department of Theatre; contemporary artistic and cultural performance, with particular attention to devised theatre and the creative work and social processes of long-term ensemble companies, as well as the political dynamics of intercultural collaboration in performance research.

Affiliated Faculty

ASHCRAFT-EASON, Lillian, Department of History; African American history and culture, Africans in the British North American Colonies

AUSTIN, Joe, Department of Popular Culture; youth culture, post-1970 U.S. popular film, cultural studies/theory, rock and roll, everyday life (praxis), post-1945 U.S. social/urban history

BARON, Cynthia, Department of Theater/Film Studies Program (Film performance, Feminist and multicultural studies of film; Cultural politics and media industry practice

BEGUM, Khani, Department of English (Modern and Contemporary British and Continental Literature; Post-Colonial Literatures; Feminist Literatures)

BERRY, Ellen, Department of English; contemporary critical theory/20th-century culture studies, 20th-century writers, narrative forms

BROWN, Jeffrey A., Department of Popular Culture; film, genres, TV, gender studies, comic books, museum studies, human body, youth culture

BUFF, Rachel, Department of History; immigration and migration, cultural theory, women’s history, critical race/legal theory

BUFFINGTON, Robert, Department of History (Mexican and Latin American History; Comparative Histories of Crime and Sexuality; Border Studies)

CALLEN, Donald, Department of Philosophy; Lacanian film theory, contemporary French culture, political theory

DANZIGER, Edmund, Department of history; 19th-century America, U.S. and Canadian Indian Policies, American environmental history, Ohio history, Great Lake Indian history

DIXON, Kathleen, Department of Philosophy (Medical Ethics; Feminist Medical Ethics; Philosophy of Death and Dying; History of Medicine; continental Philosophy)

GAJJALA, Radhika, Department of Interpersonal Communication (Media Studies; Gender and Technology; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Cultural Studies; International/Global Communication and Development; Interpersonal Communication)

GEIST, Christopher, Department of Popular Culture (Museology; Popular Television Aesthetics; Popular Television Genres; Folklore)

GIDLOW, Liette, Department of History; early 20th century U.S. political history and political culture, including issues of gender and citizenship

GLANZ, Dawn, School of Art; public art in America, legal and ethical issues in American art, the culture wars

GONZALES, Alberto, Department of Interpersonal Communication; communication and culture, intercultural rhetoric, rhetoric and technology

HESS, Gary, Department of History; American foreign relations, especially U.S. relations with Asia and the Third World

HOLMBERG, Carl, Department of Popular Culture (Horror Literature, Popular Culture of Sex, Japanese Popular Culture, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Popular Culture and the Environment)

LABBIE, Erin, Director, Great Ideas Program; Department of English (Medieval Studies; Cultural Discourses and Comparative Literature; Psychoanalysis and Marxism in Pre-Modern Texts)

LOCKFORD, Lesa, Department of theater (Performance Theory and Methods; Gender, Sexuality, and Performance; Women and Representation)

MAH, Theresa, Department of Ethnic Studies (Race, Class, and Housing in 20th Century; US Consumer Culture; Asian-American History and Racial Formation)

MAKAY, John, School of Communication Studies; political rhetoric, freedom of expression, rhetorical theory and criticism, leadership and communication

MARTIN, Michael, Department of Ethnic Studies; race relations, film/media studies: "minoritarian" and Third World, sociology of development, documentary video production

MORGAN-RUSSELL, Simon, Department of English (Seventeenth Century Drama; Early Modern Cultural Studies; M.M. Bakhtin)

NELSON, Angela, Department of Popular Culture; African-American popular culture, American television and television situation comedies, American popular music (with particular attention to black)

NIEMAN, Donald, Department of History; U.S. legal and constitutional history, emphasis on race and civil rights in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Civil War and Reconstruction (with emphasis on slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath, African-American history

OSUMARE, Halifu, School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies (Modern Dance; Hip-Hop Music and Performance)

REN, Hai, Department of Popular Culture (Public Culture and Citizenship; Urban Life; Globalization; Museums and Theme Parks; China and the US)

ROHY, Valerie, Department of English; American literature 1850-1950, women’s studies, gay and lesbian studies, psychoanalytic criticism

SANTINO, Jack, Department of Popular Culture Studies (Folklore; Northern Irish Folk Customs; Popular Music of the 1950s; Popular Music of the 1960s; Holidays and Celebrations)
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SCHERER, Donald, Department of Philosophy; environmental discourse, American institutions

SHIELD, Ronald, Director, Department of Theater (Performance Studies; Opera and Operatic Performance as Cultural Text)

SHIELDS, Peter, Department of Telecommunications; political economy of the media, critical approaches to policy and law, information-communication technologies and surveillance

SHIELDS, Vicki, Department of Telecommunications; cultural and critical approaches to the study of media and popular culture, gendered images and audiences of film, television and advertising, the relationship between media images and women’s body discipline, women’s subculture, investigating alternative methodologies for cultural and feminist audiences research

SKINNER, Ewart, Department of Telecommunications; global dispersion of labor and its relationship to global dissemination of information and telecommunication technologies, cultural impact of media and information systems internationally, cultural theory/studies

ZONGO, Opportune, Acting Director, Women’s Studies Program, Department of Romance Languages (Francophone and Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures)

Ethnic Studies
228 Shatzel Hall
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone: 419/372-2796
Fax: 419/372-0330
E-mail:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/ethn/

Chair: Michael Martin
Graduate Director: Theresa Mah

Degrees Awarded: Ph.D. Certificate

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2001-2002): Ph.D. Cert. 3

Tuition: Instate graduate $5,404; Out of state graduate $9,058

Deadlines: Admissions 12/1, financial aid 1/15

Financial Aid Available: Grants, scholarships, employment, and loans

Within the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary framework, the graduate certificate curriculum contributes to societal needs and it addresses issues of racial and ethnic diversify in the workplace, community, nation, and world during a period of profound demographic change. It is designed to provide professional study in an area of increasing importance to practitioners in social, health, and immigration service agencies; law, and K-12 and community college education , among other occupations. The certificate also offers a graduate credential to students pursuing advanced degrees and seeking to broaden their teaching and research competencies in order to enhance their career options and employment prospects. Students may either enroll in the certificate program or they may complete the certificate in conjunction with a graduate degree at the university. Satisfactory completion of the requirements for the certificate will be noted on the student’s transcript as "Graduate Certificate in Ethnic Studies."

Faculty

ADAMS, Carlos (ABD, Washington State University) Chicano/a studies

ANRADE, A. Ronaldo (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma)

BHALLA, Vibha (PhD, Michigan State University) Gender, migration

DEME, Mariam (PhD, Temple) Francophone and Anglophone African literature and culture, as well as in African-American history, literature, and culture.

HILL, Patrick (PhD, University of Michigan) U.S. Cultural History Since 1865, African-American History Since 1865, Art/Visual Cultures of American and the Black Atlantic, and Modern Sport in History and Society.

HUSSAIN, Azfar (PhD, Washington State University) Theory in the broadest sense; globally informed comparative ethnic studies; political economy; imperialism and globalization-as-globaloney; Arab and Asian/Asian American studies; American studies; third-world feminisms; Marxism-Leninism-Maoism; postcolonial theory and literature; American literature (with a particular focus on Native American, African American, Chicano/a, and Asian American literatures); political ecology; mass movements, and creative writing.

LEE, Gary (PhD, Minnesota) Family sociology and the sociology of aging. He has also worked extensively in the area of comparative sociology with a particular focus on family structure and historical ariations in family forms.

LUIBHEID, Eithne (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Ethnic Studies with emphasis in women, gender and sexuality

MAH, Theresa J. (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) History

MARTIN, Michael T. (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts) Psychology

MENON, Sridevi (PhD, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) Philosophy

MWAUWA, Apollos O. (PhD Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, N.S., Canada) African history

PENA, Susana (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Sociology

PERTUSATI, Linda (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Sociology and Social Work

SHARMA, Archana (PhD, Toronto) (Post)colonial studies, immigration, cultural studies, multicultural and anti-racist education.

Contact

American Culture Studies Program
101 East Hall
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0237
Phone: 419/372-8886
Fax: 419/372-7537
E-mail:
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/index.html

Chair/Director: Donald McQuarie

Admissions

Bowling Green State University
Office of the Graduate College
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403-0180
419-372-2791
http://www.bgsu.edu/offices/admissions/choose/graduate.html