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Michigan State University
Program in American Studies

Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: In-state undergraduate (Lower Division) $197.50 per credit hour, out-of-state $529.50 per credit hour; In-state undergraduate (Upper Division) $220.25 per credit hour, out-of-state $548.50 per credit hour; In-state graduate $291.00 per credit hour, out-of-state $589.25 per credit hour.

Deadlines: Graduate admissions 1/1; fellowships and assistantships 1/1

Financial Aid: Teaching and research assistantships, fellowships, minority fellowships, loans, MSU grants, work-study

Affiliations and Internships: Internships available with MSU Museum

Program Specializations: American literature and history, African American studies, women’s studies, ethnic studies, Native American studies, ethnomusicology, material culture, museum studies

MA Requirements: 24 course credit hours and 6 hours of Master’s Thesis research credit (Plan B) or 30 hours of course credit (Plan A).

PhD Requirements: Generally 18 credit hours past the MA (more may be required), reading knowledge of one foreign language, 3 written comprehensive exams and one oral comprehensive exam, approval of dissertation proposal, dissertation and dissertation defense.

American Studies Faculty

Affiliated Faculty

ALDRICH, Marcia (PhD, Univ. of Washington, 1987) Associate Professor; 20th-century American poetry, contemporary women’s fiction, gender studies

ARCH, Steven (PhD, Univ. of Virginia, 1989) Associate Professor; colonial and revolutionary American literature, critical narrative theory

ATHANASON, Arthur (PhD, Pennsylvania State Univ., 1989) Professor of English; comparative modern drama, 20th century British and American literature, playwriting, stage direction, film analysis

BAILEY, David (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1978) Associate Professor; United States Southern and religious history

BANKS, Jenifer (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1972) Professor; 19th-century American fiction, women and fiction

BERRY, Daina (PhD, Univ. of California, 1998) Assistant Professor; U.S. History, African American, Comparative Slavery, 19th Century, English-Speaking Caribbean, Sports History, Material Culture and Decorative Arts (during slavery)

BRATZEL, John (PhD, Michigan State, ) Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture; Ernst Bessey Hall

BRESNAHAN, Roger J. J. (PhD, ) Racial and Ethnic History; History and Literature of the Philippines

CHARNLEY, Jeff (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1983) Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture; military history with a special focus on the Civil War, World War II and the War in Vietnam; Oral History; Michigan History; and the life and political career of Gerald R. Ford

CONTRERAS, Sheila (PhD, Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1998), Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; Chicana/o Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Latina feminisms, Literary primitivism, Travel literature and theory

COOPER, David (PhD, Brown Univ., 1977) Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; theories of democracy, education and civic engagement; service learning pedagogy.

CORNELL, George (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1982) Associate Professor and Director, Native American Institute; Native American studies

DANIELS, Christine (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1990) Assistant Professor; colonial American history

DEROGATIS, Amy (Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Assistant Professor of Religious Studies; American religion and culture, nineteenth-century Protestant home missionaries, religion and gender, religion, bodies, and the American environment.

DEWHURST, Kurt (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1983) Professor and Director of MSU Museum; material folk culture, folklife, museum studies

DREGER, Alice (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1995) Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science; social and medical treatment of people born with unusual anatomies, including intersex and conjoinment; medical ethics and bioethics.

DUBOIS, Laurent (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1998) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History; Caribbean and Atlantic history

FAY, Jennifer (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001) Assistant Professor of English, Co-director of Film Studies; Postwar American and German Cinema, Global Film History, Film Theory and Criticsm, Theories of Spectatorship

FERMAGLICH, Kirsten (PhD, New York Univ., 2001) Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies; American Jewish history and 20th century American cultural and intellectual history

FINE, Lisa M. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1985) Associate Professor; U.S. labor history, women’s history, social history.

FISHBURN, Katherine (PhD, Michigan State University) Professor of English. Women’s literature and theory, African-American literature and theory, cultural studies

FLANAGAN, Maureen (PhD, Loyola Univ. of Chicago, 1981) Associate Professor of History; U.S. political history, late 19th - 20th century with specialization in urban women and politics

GROSS, Barry (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1966) Professor of English; 20th-century American literature, especially fiction and drama; Jewish-American literature and culture, American responses to the Holocaust.

HALTMAN, Kenneth (PhD, Yale University, 1992) Assistant Professor of Art. American art history

HASSAN, Salah (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1997) Assistant Professor of English; Postcolonial Literatures and Theories, Anticolonial intellectual movements, and post World War II periodical literatures

HENRY, Gordon (PhD, Univ. of North Dakota) Assistant Professor of English; Native American literature, fiction

HERZOG, Dagmar (PhD, Brown Univ.) Associate Professor of History; German history; also history of sexuality, feminist, post-structuralist and queer theory; critical race theory; post-Holocaust memory

HOPPENSTAND, Gary (PhD, Bowling Green State Univ., 1985) Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; film studies, literature and culture of the American Frontier

KORNBLUH, Mark (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; Executive Director of H-Net and Director of Matrix. 20th Century American History, technology and humanities teaching

LANDRUM, Larry (PhD, Bowling Green State Univ.) Professor of English; Popular culture, film, American studies, American literature

LARABEE, Ann (PhD, Binghampton University, 1988) Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; Science, technology, and society; disaster studies; cultural theory; women’s drama

LARGEY, Michael (PhD, Indiana Univ. Folklore Institute) Associate Professor; Haitian music, African American music

LEBEAU, Patrick (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1993) Assistant Professor; Native American studies and literature

LITTLE, Kim (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Thought; Women’s history, environmental history

LOCKWOOD, Yvonne R. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1979) Michigan Folklife Extension Specialist, MSU Museum; ethnicity, folklife, folk history

MA, Sheng-mei (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1990) Professor of English; Asian-American literature, ethnic studies, Holocaust, minority discourse theory

MACDOWELL, Marsha L. (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1982) Professor and Curator, Folk Arts; material culture, art education, women’s culture

MARTIN, Robert A. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1965) Professor; 19th- and 20th-century American literature, American drama

MCCALLUM, Ellen (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1996) Associate Professor; feminist theory, psychoanalysis, critical & literary theories, and C20 American literature

MELENDEZ, Theresa (PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego) Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program; Chicano/a literature, Mexican folklore, medieval literature, oral traditions

MICHAELSON, Scott (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1992) Cultural studies theory, theory and history of the social sciences, popular culture studies, law and literature, 19th century America

MOORE, Kathryn (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1971) Professor of Education; educational policy studies, higher education and educational administration, American history

NOVERR, Douglas (PhD, Miami Univ. of Ohio, 1972) Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; 19th-century American literature and culture, sports history, American art history

O’DONNELL, Patrick (PhD, Univ. of California, Davis, 1979) Chair of English Department; postmodern literature and culture, history and theory of narrative, general American literature and American Studies

PENN, William (BA, Syracuse Univ., 1979) Professor of English; creative writing, oral tradition, American identities, cross-cultural studies, comparative literature

POSNER, Alan (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1977) Associate Professor; social differentiation, political culture, popular culture, politics and literature

POWELL, Malea (PhD, Miami Univ. of Ohio, 1998) Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; American Indian Rhetorics, Women’s Studies, Rhetoric and Critical Theory, History of Rhetoric

RACHMAN, Stephen (PhD, Yale Univ., 1993) Associate Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, history of medicine, cultural studies, documentary film

REHBERGER, Dean (PhD, Univ. of Utah, 1992) Assistant Professor; cultural studies, critical theory, new historicism, American Studies methods, nationalism, Civil War, American studies/literature 1800-1950

ROHS, Stephen (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 2000) Assistant Professor of American Studies; 19th century cultural history, Irish immigration history, Ethnomusicology, Globalization, Cultural theory

RUTLEDGE, Frank (MA, Ohio State Univ.) Professor of Theater; American playwriting and drama, 19th-century American opera houses, American theater history

SEATON, James (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) Professor; 19th- and 20th-century literature, cultural studies

SHIMIZU, Sayuri (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1992) Assistant Professor of American History; international history, U. S. diplomatic history, and postwar U. S. history

SLEEPER-SMITH, Susan (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Assistant Professor; Native American history, material culture, United States history to 1850

STANFORD, Linda (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina) Associate Professor of Art History; American architecture (late 19th and 20th centuries)

STOWE, David (PhD, Yale Univ.) Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; Interim Director, American Studies Program; U.S. cultural history; American music

TEAHAN, Sheila (PhD, Yale Univ., 1989) Assistant Professor; 19th-century American literature, the novel, literary theory

THOMAS, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Professor of History; urban and poverty issues

VERSLUIS, Arthur (PhD) Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; 19th-Century American Literature; Creative writing; German romanticism; and religious studies

VINCENT, William (PhD, Yale Univ., 1973) Professor; film studies

WALTZER, Kenneth (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1977) Professor; 20th-century American social and political history, including urban and metropolitan history, immigrant/ethnic group history, minority history, American and European Jewish history in the modern era, including the Holocaust

WATTS, Edward (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1992) Professor of English; Early American Studies, Regionalism, Postcolonial Studies

WRAY, Jeff (MFA, Ohio Univ., 1994) Associate Professor of English; Black cinema

Contact

Program in American Studies
College of Arts and Letters
18A Morrill Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: 517/353-9821
Fax: 517/355-0159
E-mail:
http://www.americanstudies.msu.edu

Chair/Director: David W. Stowe

Admissions

Michigan State University
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East Lansing, MI 48824
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