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Brown University
Department of American Civilization

Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD (also Masters in Museum Studies)

Degrees Awarded 2001: 6 (D); 3 (M)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $32,264 per year

Deadlines: Undergraduate admissions and financial aid 1/1; graduate admissions and financial aid 1/2

Financial Aid: There is no financial aid available for one-year MA students. Public Humanities students are eligible for partial or full tuition support. All students admitted for the Ph.D. receive full funding for at least five years (provided they continue to make satisfactory progress toward their degrees). In the first year, such funding is in the form of University Fellowships which include a fellowship and tuition. In the next three years, the funding is in the form of tuition plus a stipend for which students serve either as teaching assistants or research assistants to faculty members. Most Ph.D. students spend one semester teaching a course of their own and most receive at least one semester of dissertation fellowship to round out the five years of funding. Many students continue to receive funding in their sixth and seventh year, should they need it. Some of the admission packages also include summer research funding.

Enrollment: 48 graduate students

Affiliations and Internships: Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity provides research assistance to students and faculty

Program Specializations: race, ethnicity and gender; material culture/technology; public policy; popular culture, ethnography and oral history

MA Requirements: Normally completed within one year, the MA requires successful completion (grade of B or higher) of eight semester courses, of which only one may be transferred from an accredited graduate program outside Brown. Neither full-time students pursuing the MA only nor part-time students are eligible for financial aid.

PhD Requirements: The PhD requires successful completion of 24 course credits beyond the BA. During the second year, PhD students choose field advisors and begin preparing four fields, not more than two of which may be within the same discipline. Students must pass an oral examination in these fields by the end of the fifth semester. Within one semester of passing the preliminary examination, the PhD student must submit to the faculty for approval a dissertation proposal signed by his or her dissertation director and readers. Students must complete the dissertation no later than five years after passing the preliminary examination.

American Studies Faculty

BUHLE, Mari Jo (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1974) Professor of American Studies; histories of women/gender, cultural history, feminism, psychoanalysis

BUHLE, Paul (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1975) Visiting Professor of American Civilization; Left/labor history, oral history, popular culture, Blacklist film

CAMPBELL, James (PhD. Stanford Univ., 1989) Associate Professor; African American history

DAVIDMAN, Lynn (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1986) Associate Professor; sociology of gender, ethnography, sociology of religion

EMLEN, Robert (MA, Univ. of Vermont, 1976) Senior Lecturer of American Civilization and University Curator; decorative arts, material culture

GARCIA, Matthew (PhD, Claremont, 1997) Associate Professor; Chicano/Latino identity and community formation, race and ethnicity in the U.S, labor history, Latina/o education, American popular culture, and urban/suburbanization.

HAVILAND, Beverly, Visiting Associate Professor; Ways that race is implicated in cultural institutions, such as film and copyright, at the turn of the twentieth-century and 2) on the representation of child sexual abuse in film, television and literature.

KEIZER, Arlene, Associate Professor; Theoretical implications of literary form, as well as with race, gender, and sexuality as categories of analysis and forces shaping textual production.

LEE, Robert (PhD, Brown Univ., 1980) Associate Professor; Asian American studies, ethnic and racial studies

LUBAR, Steven (PhD, University of Chicago, 1983) Professor; Museums and memorials, material culture studies, and cultural theory in the study of history of technology.

MALONE, Patrick (PhD, Brown Univ., 1971) Associate Professor; material culture, history of technology, industrial archaeology

MECKEL, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1980) Associate Professor; social welfare history, medical history, immigration history, history of childhood

RODRIGUEZ, Ralph (PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1997) Associate Professor; Latina/o literature and culture, graphic novels/comic books, queer theory, cultural theory, race, ethnicity, feminism, and identity construction

SMULYAN, Susan (PhD, Yale Univ., 1985) Associate Professor; media/broadcast history, popular culture

ST. ARMAND, Barton (PhD, Brown Univ., 1968) Professor; American literature, 19th-century painting and poetry, British and American environmental literature

Contact

Department of American Civilization
Box 1892
Providence, RI 02912
Phone: 401/863-2896
Fax: 401/863-1385
E-mail:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/AmCiv/

Chair/Director: Mari Jo Buhle
Graduate Director: Robert Lee

Admissions

Brown University
Graduate School
42 Charlesfield Street
P.O. Box 1867
Providence, Rhode Island 02912-1867
401-863-2600
http://www.brown.edu/Divisions/Graduate_School/