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Yale University
American Studies Program

Degrees Awarded: MA, MPhill, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Deadlines: Graduate admissions and financial aid 1/1

Financial Aid: Full tuition rebate plus stipend, teaching fellowships, small travel/research grants, tuition fellowships, stipends, dissertation fellowships

Affiliations and Internships: Special collections in American literature, arts and furniture, Western Americana, African American literature, history and arts

Program Specializations: History, literature, visual arts and material culture, cultural theory

Yale University’s graduate program in American Studies is one of the oldest in the nation. It has awarded more than 300 Ph.D.s since 1947. Faculty at Yale organized the graduate program even before the undergraduate major in American Studies was established at Yale College in 1950. The graduate program now numbers about sixty Ph.D. students in residence and the undergraduate program attracts between fifty and seventy senior majors each year. Its graduates are employed by major universities, colleges, museums, and journals across the United States. Scholars with Ph.D.s from Yale’s American Studies Program have produced an extraordinary number of well-known books and have won many postdoctoral fellowships. Current and recent graduate students have amassed an impressive record of pre-doctoral awards as well, including an unusually high number of Spencer, Newcombe, Smithsonian, Mellon and Whiting fellowships.

American Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

AGNEW, Jean-Christophe (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1978) Professor of American Studies and History; cultural history

BUTLER, Jon (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1972) Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies; social history and religion

CARBY, Hazel (PhD, Birmingham Univ., U.K., 1984) Professor of American Studies and Afro-American Studies; African American cultural studies

DEMOS, John (PhD) Professor of History; colonial history, family history, social history, narrative history

DENNING, Michael (PhD, Yale Univ., 1984) Professor of American Studies and English; literature, popular culture, cultural studies

DILLON, Elizabeth (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1995) Assistant Professor of English and American Studies; literature, feminist theory

DIMOCK, Wai Chee (PhD, Yale Univ., 1982) Professor of American Studies and English; literature, popular culture and cultural studies

DUDLEY, Kathryn (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1993) Associate Professor of American Studies; ethnography, modern American culture

FARAGHER, John Mack (PhD, Yale Univ., 1977) Professor of History and American Studies; U.S. West

GILMORE, Glenda (PhD, University of North Carolina) Political history, Southern history

HAYDEN, Dolores (M.Arch, Harvard Univ., 1972) Professor of Architecture and American Studies; architecture and urbanism

JACOBSON, Matthew Frye (PhD, Brown Univ., 1992) Associate Professor of American Studies and History; cultural history

MUSSER, Charles (PhD, New York Univ., 1986) Associate Professor of American Studies; film

NEMEROV, Alexander (PhD, Yale) Professor of HYA and American Studies, 19th and 20th century art

PAULIN, Diana (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1999) Assistant Professor of American Studies and English; theater history, the history of race

PESSAR, Patricia (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1976) Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies; social anthropology, migration studies

PITTI, Stephen (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1999) Assistant Professor, American Studies and History; American West, Chicano studies

ROEMER, Michael (BA, Harvard Univ., 1949) Adjunct Professor of American Studies and Art; film

SCHMIDT CAMACHO, Alicia (PhD, Stanford Univ, 2000) Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies; ethnic studies, Latino/a studies

STEPTO, Robert (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1974) Professor of American Studies, Afro-American Studies, and English; literature, Afro-American studies

SZWED, John (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1984) Professor of Anthropology, Afro-American Studies and American Studies; music, ethnography

WEXLER, Laura (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1986) Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and American Studies; literature, photography

YOKATA, Kariann (MA, UCLA, 1994) Lecturer in American Studies, history

Affiliated Faculty

BRODHEAD, Richard (PhD, Yale Univ., 1972) Professor of English and American Studies; American literature

KERBEL, Michael; Directory of Film Study Center; American cinima

KUTZINSKI, Vera (PhD, Yale University, 1985) Professor of English and American Studies; African American and Caribbean literature

MUSTO, David (PhD) Professor of the History of Medicine and Psychietry; medical history

STOLL, Steven (PhD) Assistant Professor of History; environmental history

STOUT, Harry (PhD, Kent State Univ., 1974) Professor of Religious Studies, Divinity, and American Studies

WARNER, John Harley (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1984) Professor of History of Medicine and American Studies; medical history

Contact

American Studies Program
Box 208236
New Haven, CT 06520-8236
Phone: 203/432-1188
Fax: 203/432-4493
E-mail:
www.yale.edu/amstud

Chair: John Mack Faragher (Spring)
Director of Graduate Studies: Matthew Frye Jacobson

Admissions

Yale University
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Admissions Office
Box 208323
New Haven, CT 06520-8323
Telephone: 203-432-2773
Fax: 203-432-6724
e-mail:
http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/admissions/