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George Washington University
American Studies Program

Degrees Awarded: (2001-2003): 20 MA, 11 PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Graduate $924 per credit hour

Deadlines: PhD: January 15; MA, March 1

Financial Aid: Teaching assistantships, University Fellowships, research fellowships

Affiliations and Internships: Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, internship possibilities with numerous government and private agencies

Program Specializations: Public history, public culture, folklife, historic preservation, African American history and race theory, women’s history and gender theory, material culture, cultural analysis, media analysis, globalization. The department publishes American Studies International.

The American Studies Department at GU combines interests drawn from a variety of perspectives and methods of inquiry: history, folklife, cultural studies, literary analysis, as well as the study of art, architecture, and visual culture. However, most faculty and students find their intellectual pursuits intersecting at some point around questions of public culture and/or public history.

MA students pursue a 30-hour program in folklife, material culture or gender studies, 36 hours in historic preservation, and PhD candidates take 48 hours beyond the MA, including the credits for dissertation research and writing.

American Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

GUGLIELMO, Thomas (PhD, U. Michigan, 2000) Assistant Professor of American Studies (On leave 2005-2006) Immigration, ethnicity

HEAP, Chad (PhD, Chicago, 2000) Assistant Professor; Urban History, Cultural Theory, Sexuality in American Culture

HORTON, James O. (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1973) Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Civilization; social history, African American history

KOSEK, Joseph (PhD, Yale, 2004) Assistant Professor; American religion

LONGSTRETH, Richard (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1977) Associate Professor of American Civilization; American architecture, historic preservation

MCALISTER, Melani (PhD, Brown Univ., 1996) Assistant Professor of American Civilization; cultural theory, popular culture

MILLER, James (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1976) Professor of English and American Civilization; African American literature and culture

MURPHY, Teresa (PhD, Yale Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of American Civilization; women’s history, cultural history

PALMER, Phyllis (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1973) Professor of Women’s Studies and American Civilization; women’s studies, race studies

VLACH, John M. (PhD, Univ. of Indiana, 1975) Professor of American Civilization and Anthropology; folklife, African American folklife, vernacular architecture, folk art

Affiliated Faculty

ANBINDER, Tyler (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1990) Associate Professor of History; immigration, political history

BECKER, William (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1972) Professor of History; business history

BJELAJAC, David (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1980) Associate Professor of Art; 19th-century American art

CHU, Patricia (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1992) Associate Professor of English; Asian American literature

CRESSEY, Pamela (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1978) Adjunct Associate Professor; historical archaeology

HARRISON, Cynthia (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1982) Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and History; U.S. women’s history, women and public policy, U.S. legal history

HARVEY, Lisa St. Clair (PhD, Univ. of Washington, 1990) Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs; media and politics

KUIPERS, Joel (PhD, Yale Univ., 1982) Professor of Anthropology; linguistics

LORNELL, Christopher (PhD, Univ. of Memphis) Adjunct Professor of Africana Studies; African American music, jazz, rock and roll

MAYO, Edith (MA, George Washington Univ., 1970) Adjunct Professor of American Civilization; U.S. women’s history, material culture, museum exhibition

RIBUFFO, Leo (PhD, Yale Univ., 1976) Professor of History; recent political and cultural history

RIDOUT, Orlando V. (BA, Univ. of Virginia, 1977) Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Civilization; documentation of historic properties

ROMINES, Ann (PhD, George Washington Univ., 1977) Professor of English; American literature, women’s studies

SEAVEY, Ormond (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1976) Professor of English; American literature of the early republic

STEIN, Christopher (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1971) Professor of English; nineteenth century American literature

STOTT, Richard (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1983) Associate Professor of History; social history

TILLER, deTeel Patterson (MA, Univ. of Virginia, 1975) Adjunct Associate Professor of American Civilization; preservation planning and policy

WAGNER, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Edinburgh, 1975) Adjunct Associate Professor of American Civilization; preservation economics

WALD, Gayle (PhD, Princeton Univ., 1994) Assistant Professor of English; African American literature, cultural theory, popular culture

WALLACE, Dewey (PhD, Princeton Univ., 1965) Professor of Religion; American religious history

Contact

American Studies Program
2108 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20052
Phone: 202/994-6070
Fax: 202/994-8651
E-mail:
http://www.gwu.edu/~amst/index.htm

Chair: Phyllis Palmer
Graduate Director: Bernard Mergen

Admissions

The George Washington University
Columbian School of Arts & Sciences
Office of Graduate Admissions
Phillips Hall, Room 107
801 22nd Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
Telephone: 202-994-6210
Fax: 202-994-6213
e-mail:
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccas/adminfo.html