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Events
Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Kent State University
American Studies Program
Degrees Awarded: MA (minor), PhD (minor)
Academic System: Semester
Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 2/1
Financial Aid: Teaching fellowships
Affiliations and Internships: Area museums and historical societies
Program Specializations: Popular culture, popular music, media, gender studies, environment, material and visual culture, museum studies and historic preservation
American Studies Faculty
Core Faculty
JAMESON, John R (PhD, Toronto) Professor; American Studies and American history; West, environmental
KENNEY, William (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966) Professor of American Studies and History; popular music, jazz, recording industry
WAJDA, Shirley Teresa (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1992) Assistant Professor of American Studies and History; history of consumption, material and visual culture, women’s studies, nineteenth-century American culture
Affiliated Faculty
BADEJO, Diedre (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1985) Professor of Pan African Studies, Director of Institute for African American Affairs; comparative world literatures, culture studies
BINDAS, Kenneth (PhD, Univ. of Toledo, 1988) Associate Professor of History; music in American cultures
CUTTER, Martha (PhD, Brown Univ., 1991) Associate Professor of English; nineteenth-century women’s ethnic literature
FRIED, Lewis (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1969) Professor of English; American Jewish literature
HEAPHY, Leslie A. (PhD, Univ. of Toledo, 1995) Assistant Professor of History; American history, popular culture, sports
MERRYMAN, Molly (PhD, Bowling Green State Univ., 1995) Assistant Professor of Ciminal Justice Studies; gender and film, women’s studies, culture studies
RYAN, Frank X. (PhD, Emory Univ., 1996) Assistant Professor of Philosophy; American philosophy, pragmatism, John Dewey
VIEYRA, Daniel I. (PhD, Case Western Reverse Univ., 1995) Associate Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design
Contact
American Studies Program
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Phone: 330/672-2882
Fax: 330/672-2943
E-mail:
http://dept.kent.edu/AmericanStudies/programnav.htm
Chair/Director: Shirley Teresa Wajda
Admissions
Kent State University
Office of Graduate Program Services
Division of Research and Graduate Studies
Kent State University
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
1-800-988-KENT
http://www.admissions.kent.edu/
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