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Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs in American Studies
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KANN, Mark (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975), University of Southern California, Professor of Political Science and University Associates' Professor of Political Science; history of American political thought
KAPLAN, Carla (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1990), University of Southern California, Associate Professor of English; American literature, African-American literature, feminist history, modernism, the novel
KAPLAN, Elaine Bell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988), University of Southern California, Race and ethnic relations; social inquality; sociology of childhood; gender, qualitative methodology
KAWAMURA, Noriko (PhD, Univ. of Washington) Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asia Program, US foreign policy; US-Japan diplomatic and cultural relations
KEYSSAR, Alexander (Ph.D., ) Harvard University, Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy (Kennedy School)
KURIEN, Prema (PhD, Brown Univ.), University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of Sociology; migration and immigration, race and ethnicity, gender, political economy, India, theory
KARUSH, Deborah (M.Phil, Yale Univ., 1994), Trinity College, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
KATZMAN, David M. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan), University of Kansas, Professor of History and Chair of American Studies; social history of the U.S., African-American and ethnic culture, American communities
KEENE, John (PhD), University of Pennsylvania, Professor of City and Regional Planning
KEIL, Charles (PhD, Univ. of Chicago), SUNY Buffalo, Professor of American Studies; ethnomusicology
KELLEY, Robin D.G. (PhD, UCLA, 1987), New York University, Professor of History and Africana Studies; U.S. and African-American history, urban studies, working-class radicalism, cultural history
KELLY, R. Gordon (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1970), University of Maryland, Professor; literature and society, popular fiction, children's literature
KELTON, Paul (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of History
KENNEDY, Elizabeth (PhD, Cambridge Univ.), SUNY Buffalo, Professor of American Studies; cross-cultural methodology, women's studies, feminist scholarship, lesbian community studies, oral history
KENNEY, William (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966) Kent State Univ., Professor of American Studies and History; popular music, jazz, recording industry
KERN, Robert (PhD, Harvard Univ.), Boston College, Professor of English; modern American poetry, American orientalism
KESSNER, Thomas (PhD, Columbia Univ.), CUNY, Professor of History
KEUCHEL, Edward F. (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1970), Florida State University, Professor of History; Florida history
KIANG, Peter (EdD, Harvard Univ., 1991), University of Massachusetts, Boston, Professor of Education and American Studies; Asian American studies, multicultural education
KILDE, Jeanne (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1991), University of Notre Dame, Assistant Professor
KIM, Elaine H. (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) UC Berkeley; Asian American Studies; Asian American visual art; issues of gender and power in Korean American culture and community publications
KING, Wilma (PhD, Indiana University, 1982), Michigan State University, Associate Professor; African-American history
KINGSTON-MANN, Esther (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1966), University of Massachusetts, Boston, Professor of History and American Studies; U.S.-Russia relations, comparative society and culture, issues in U.S. Diversity
KIRK, John T. (MA, Yale Univ.), Boston University, Professor of Art History; American furniture
KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, Barbara (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1972), New York University, Professor of Performance Studies; cultural performance, performance theory, Jewish folklore and ethnography, food as performance
KLANCHER, Jon (PhD, UCLA), Boston University, Associate Professor of English; literary theory
KLOPPENBERG, James (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.) Harvard, Professor of History
KLOTMAN, Phyllis R. (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ.) Indiana Univ., Professor Emeritus
KNAPP, Bettina (PhD, Columbia Univ.), CUNY, Professor of French at Hunter College
KNIGHT, Arthur (MA, Univ. of Chicago), College of William and Mary, Assistant Professor of American Studies; American film, African-American film and literature
KNIPP, Thomas R. (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1966), Saint Louis University, Professor; literature and culture
KNOPER, Randall (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1986), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Assistant Professor of English; popular culture, 19th- and early 20th- century literature and culture, cultural theory
KOCH, Larry (PhD) Univ. of Michigan, Flint, Sociology
KOHLER, Robert (PhD), University of Pennsylvania, Professor of History and Sociology of Science
KOLMER, Elizabeth (PhD, St. Louis Univ., 1965), Saint Louis University, Professor; American social and intellectual history, women's history, reform movements
KONDO, Dorinne (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1982), University of Southern California, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies and Ethnicity; aesthetics, politics, performance, critical race theory, Asian American and multiracial theatre
KORN, James H. (PhD, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1965), Saint Louis University, Professor; human relations and American culture, psychology and literature
KORNBLUH, Mark (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) Michigan State Univ., Assistant Professor of History. Executive Director of H-Net and Director of Matrix. 20th Century American History, technology and humanities teaching.
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MA, Sheng-mei (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1990) Michigan State University Assistant Professor; Asian-American literature, ethnic studies, Holocaust, minority discourse theory
MacCANN, Donnarae; Univ. of Iowa, Visiting Professor of African American World Studies
MACDOWELL, Marsha L. (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1982) Michigan State University Professor and Curator, Folk Arts; material culture, art education, women's culture
MAFFLY-KIPP, Laurie (PhD, Yale Univ., 1990) University of North Carolina Associate Professor of Religious Studies
MAH, Theresa J. (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Bowling Green, History
MAHAR, William (PhD, Syracuse Univ., 1972) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Professor of Music and Humanities; American music
MAIMAN, Richard (PhD, Brown Univ., 1972) University of Southern Maine Professor of Political Science; national and regional politics, political history
MAIRA, Sunaina (EdD, Harvard Univ., 1998) University of Massachusetts, Amherst Assistant Professor of English; youth culture, Asian American studies
MAJOR, Judith (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Architecture
MAKAY, John, School of Communication Studies; Bowling Green State University political rhetoric, freedom of expression, rhetorical theory and criticism, leadership and communication
MALAMUD, Deborah (JD, Univ. of Chicago) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor of Law; Labor and employment discrimination law
MALDONADO, Lionel A. (PhD, Univ. of Oregon) Cal. State, Los Angeles, Sociology, Chicano community formations, labor force participation, immigration, interethnic relations
MALDONADO-TORRES, Nelson (Ph.D., Brown University) University of California, Berkeley, Religious Studies; Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Americas, Critical Studies in Ethnicity, Race, and Gender, European Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Ethnics, and Political Theory, Critical Theory of Religion, Transdisciplinary conversations in the humanities and social sciences
MALONE, Patrick (PhD, Brown Univ., 1971) Brown University Associate Professor; material culture, history of technology, industrial archaeology
MANCINI, Matthew (PhD, Emory University, 1974) Department Chair and Professor; American Intellectual, South
MANZ, Beatriz (Ph.D., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) UC Berkeley; Associate Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies, Chair, Center for Latin American Studies; Ecological consequences of agricultural export production, Indigenous, migrant and refugee populations, Political ecology, Peasantry, U.S./Mexico border region
MARABLE, Manning; Columbia Univ., Professor of History and Political Science and Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies
MARCUS, Isabel (JD, PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) State University of New York, Buffalo Co-Director of the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender Coordinator of Women's Studies; domestic violence in Eastern Europe
MAREZ, Curtis (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993) University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of School of Cinema-Television: Chicana/o media and popular culture; race in U.S. mass and popular cultures; Native American film and video; crime and imprisonment; cultural studies and political economy; the Chicana/o Asia Pacific.
MARKEL, Howard (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD, Univ. of Michigan, 1986) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases; history and sociology of medicine, health care, and public health in 19th and 20th century U.S., immigration
MARLING, Karal Ann (PhD, Bryn Mawr College, 1971) University of Minnesota Professor of Art; art and culture
MARR, Timothy (PhD, Yale Univ., 1998) University of North Carolina, Assistant Professor; Islam in America, literature, cultural studies
MARRA, Kimberly (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1990) Univ. of Iowa
MARTIN, Judith (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1976) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of History; U.S. urban environments
MARTIN, Michael, Department of Ethnic Studies; Bowling Green State University race relations, film/media studies: "minoritarian" and Third World, sociology of development, documentary video production
MARTIN, Robert A. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1965) Michigan State University Professor; 19th- and 20th-century American literature, American drama
MARTIN, Scott, Department of History; Bowling Green State University U.S. social and cultural history, especially 19th century, history of leisure, gender, temperance, historiography
MARTIN, Wendy (PhD, Univ. of California, Davis, 1968) Claremont Graduate University Professor of English; American literature, women's studies
MARTINEZ, Maria Elena (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002) University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of History: Colonial and Modern Latin American History; Early Modern Spanish History; Early Modern Religion and "Race," Gender and Sexuality; Comparative Colonial Situations; Mexican Nationalism; Feminist Theory and Movements.
MAZRUL, Alamin (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1981) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Sociolinguistics, African literature, and the politics of cultural production
MASINTON, Charles G. (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma) University of Kansas Professor of English; contemporary American fiction
MATHEWS, Donald G. (PhD, Duke Univ., 1962) University of North Carolina Professor; antebellum U.S., U.S. religious history, U.S. women's history
MATSON, Floyd W. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1960) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Professor; social thought, film, popular culture
MATTHEWS, Richard K. (PhD Univ. of Toronto, 1981) Lehigh University Distinguished Professor of Political Science; political philosophy with specialization in ideologies and early American thought
MAURRASSE, David (PhD, Northwestern Univ.) Columbia, Assistant Professor, School for International and Public Affairs, and Research Fellow of African-American Studies
MAY, Elaine Tyler (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1975) University of Minnesota Professor; U.S. family and women's social history
MAY, Ernest (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Harvard, Charles Warren Professor of American History
MAY, Lary Linden (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1977) University of Minnesota Associate Professor; film and popular culture
MAYER, Egon (PhD, Rutgers Univ.) City University of New York Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College
MAYO, Edith (MA, George Washington Univ., 1970) George Washington University Adjunct Professor of American Civilization; U.S. women's history, material culture, museum exhibition
MAYO, James Jr., (PhD, Oklahoma State Univ.) University of Kansas Professor of Urban Planning
MAZAMA, Ama (Ph.D., Univ. of La Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, France, 1987) Temple Univ.
MAZON, Mauricio (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1976), University of Southern California, Associate Professor of History and Vice Provost of Minority Affairs; Chicano/a, psychohistory, complexity theory
McCABE, Susan (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1990), University of Southern California, modern and contemporary American poetry, American literature
MCALISTER, Melani (PhD, Brown Univ., 1996) George Washington University Assistant Professor of American Civilization; cultural theory, popular culture
MCCALLUM, Ellen (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1996) Michigan State University, Associate Professor; feminist theory, psychoanalysis, critical & literary theories, and C20 American literature
McCENDON, M.J. (PhD Univ. of California) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of English
McKENNA, Teresa ( Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles, 1980), University of Southern California, Chicano/a and Latino/a literature; 20th century American literature and culture; ethnic American literature; gender and race
McCLINTOCK, James (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1968) Michigan State University Professor; science-technology studies, contemporary fiction, cultural history, nature literature
McCLUSKEY, Audrey Thomas (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Associate Professor.
McCLUSKEY, John, Jr. (M.A., Stanford Univ.) Indiana Univ., Chairperson and Professor
McCORMICK, Adrienne (PhD, Univ. of Maryland, 1998) State University of New York, Fredonia Assistant Professor of English; American multi-ethnic literature
McELROY, Frederick (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Associate Professor
McPHERSON, James; Univ. of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Writer's Workshop/African American World Studies
McPHERSON, Tara (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1996), University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television; race, feminist and place (esp. the US South); gender and new technologies, television, feminism and media
McCUTCHEON, James M. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1959) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Emeritus Professor; urban studies
McDANIEL, William T. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1974) Ohio State, Professor of African American and African Studies and Music; Director of Jazz Studies, School of Music; Music arranging and composition; Jazz performance; Black music history
McDONALD, Terrance (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1979) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of History, Associate Dean; American history, American urban history, economic history
McINERNEY, Daniel; Utah State University American history
McINTOSH, James H. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1996) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of American Culture and English; American literature, 1825-65, the American Renaissance, 20th-century Latin American literature, landscape in literature, religion and American literature, the idea of America in the U.S. and Latin America
McINTOSH, James R. (PhD Syracuse Univ., 1970) Lehigh University Professor of Sociology; social theory, deviance, alcohol studies
McNARON, Toni (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1964) University of Minnesota Professor of English; women writers and feminist criticism
McQUARIE, Donald, Department of Sociology; Bowling Green State University social theory (esp. Neo-Marxism), state and politics, intellectual history, socialism in America, sociology of culture, American political culture
MECKEL, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1980) Brown University Associate Professor; social welfare history, medical history, immigration history, history of childhood
MEGRAW, Rich (PhD, Louisiana State University, 1990) University of Alabama, Assistant Professor; the West, social history, sports
MEIKLE, Jeffrey L. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1977) University of Texas, Austin Professor; American design and architecture, technology and culture, contemporary literature
MELÉNDEZ, Gabriel (PhD, Univ. of New Mexico, 1984) University of New Mexico Associate Professor of American Studies; Southwest studies, Chicano history and literature, oral history
MELENDEZ, Theresa (PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego) Michigan State University Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of the Chicano/Latino Studies Program; Chicano/a literature, Mexican folklore, medieval literature, oral traditions
MENAND, Louis (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Harvard University, Professor of English and American Literature and Language
MENARD, Russell (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1975) University of Minnesota Professor of History; early American history
MENON, Sridevi (PhD, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) Bowling Green, Philosophy
MENDOZA, Valerie (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of History; Chicano history
MENDOZA, Zoila (Ph.D.) University of California Davis Assistant Professor
MERCIER, Laurie (PhD, Univ. of Oregon) Washington State University Assistant Professor of History; labor history, U.S. women's history, gender, class, race and religion, community studies
MERGEN, Bernard (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1968) George Washington University Professor of American Civilization; material culture, cultural history, popular culture
MESSER-DAVIDOW, Ellen (PhD, Univ. of Cincinnati, 1984) University of Minnesota Associate Professor; gender and knowledge
MEYER, Leisa (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) College of William and Mary Assistant Professor of History; American women's history, gender, history of sexuality
MEYER, Richard (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996), University of Southern California, 20th-century American Art; history of photography; visual culture; gay and lesbian studies; censorship & the public sphere
MEYEROWITZ, Ruth (PhD, Columbia Univ.) State University of New York, Buffalo Associate Professor of American/Women's Studies; U.S. women's history, labor history, women in professions
MICHAELSON, Scott (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1992) Michigan State University Cultural studies theory, theory and history of the social sciences, popular culture studies, law and literature, 19th century America
MICHEL, Sonya. (Ph.D., Brown Univ., 1986) Univ. of Maryland, Professor; social policy history, welfare, constructions of gender, motherhood, and Jewishness
MICKENBERG, Julia L. (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 2000), University of Texas, Austin, Assistant Profesor; twentieth century cultural and social history, history of childhood and education, the Popular Front and McCarthyism, regionalism and folk cultures, progressive reform movements, women's history
MILBAUER, John (PhD, Univ. of California, Riverside) Northeastern State University Associate Professor of Geography
MILLER, Carol (PhD Univ. of Oklahoma, 1980) University of Minnesota Associate Professor; Native American literature and
MILLER, Christopher L, Yale,. (French, African-American Studies)
MILLER, James (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1976) George Washington University Professor of English and American Civilization; African American literature and culture
MILLER, Roger (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1979) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of Geography; urban geography
MILLER, Tim (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) University of Kansas Professor of Religious Studies; religion in America, past and present
MILLER, Toby (PhD, Murdoch, 1991) New York University Professor of Cinema Studies; screen studies, gender, cultural policy, discourse analysis
MILNER, Clyde; Utah State University American Indian and 19th-century history
MINTZ, Lawrence E. (Ph.D., Michigan State Univ., 1969) University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor; humor, popular culture
MITCHELL, Carolyn (Ph.D. Boston College) Indiana Univ., Adjunct Professor
MIZRUCHI, Susan (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Boston University Associate Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, feminist theory
MODLESKI, Tania (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1980), University of Southern California, Women in film; women in popular culture; women in literature; feminist studies; soap operas
MOHAWK, John (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) State University of New York, Buffalo Assistant Professor of Native American Studies; Native American economic development and cultural survival, world history
MOLINA, Natalia (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 2000) Univ. of California, San Diego, Social and cultural values in medicine and public health
MONSON, Ingrid (Ph.D., New York University) Harvard University, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music
MONTEJANO, David (Ph.D., Yale University, 1982) University of California, Berkeley, Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology;Social Change; Development; Race and Ethnic Relations; Community Studies; Ethnographic and Historical Methods
MONTEJO, Victor D. (Ph.D.) University of California Davis, Associate Professor
MONTERO, Oscar (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina) City University of New York Professor of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures at Lehman College
MONTOYA, Maria (PhD, Yale Univ., 1993) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor of History and American Culture; history of American west, history of American southwest, environmental history, Chicano history
MOONEY, Amy (Ph.D., Rutgers) Washington state Univ., Assistant Professor of Fine Arts. African and African American art history; race, culture and representation
MOORE, Dennis D. (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1990) Florida State University Associate Professor of English; earlier American literature and culture, eighteenth-century Anglo-American culture
MOORE, Kathryn (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1971) Michigan State University Professor of Education; educational policy studies, higher education and educational administration, American history
MOORE, Mignon (Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago) Columbia, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies.
MOORE, William (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1971) University of Wyoming Professor; social history, modern American history
MORAN, Jeff (Harvard Univ.) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of History
MORANTZ-SANCHEZ, Regina (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1971) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of History; American women's history, social history of medicine, history of the family, gender, race, class, 19th century American social and cultural history
MORGAN, Edward P. (PhD Brandeis Univ., 1975) Lehigh University Professor of Sociology; American politics related to media, propaganda and the 1960s
MORGAN, Keith (PhD, Brown Univ.), Univ. of Alabama, Boston University Associate Professor of Art History; architectural history, landscape history, preservation studies
MORRIS, Daniel (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1992) Purdue University Associate Professor of English; American literature, American poetry, 20th-century American art, popular culture
MOSKOP, Wynne (PhD, George Washington Univ., 1985) Saint Louis University Professor; political science, political theory, women, minorities
MOTLEY, Frank (J.D., Columbia Univ.) Indiana Univ., Adjunct Professor
MOWOE, Isaac James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1976, JD Capital Univ., 1982) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; African politics and law
MOYA-RAGGIO, Eliana (MA, Univ. of Michigan) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lecturer, Residential College; language/literature, Latin American women's literature, Latina's literature, cultural analysis, new song movement in Latin America, popular culture and women's organizations, history/political connections
MPHANDE, Lupenga (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1989) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; African literature, language, and politics; society and culture
MUGERAUER, Robert W. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1973) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Architecture, Meadows Foundation Centennial Professor in Architecture
MUMFORD, James (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Lecturer
MUNOZ, Carlos, Jr. (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) UC Berkeley; Professor Department of Ethnic Studies;
MUÑOZ, José (PhD, Duke Univ., 1994) New York University Assistant Professor of Performance Studies; ethnic studies, lesbian and gay studies, mass culture, performance art and contemporary visual culture
MURPHY, Teresa (PhD, Yale Univ., 1982) George Washington University Associate Professor of American Civilization; women's history, cultural history
MURTAGH, William J. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1962) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Affiliate Professor; historic preservation
MUSSER, Charles (PhD, New York Univ., 1986) Yale University Associate Professor of American Studies; film
MUSTO, David (PhD) Yale University Professor of the History of Medicine and Psychietry; medical history
MWAUWA, Apollos O. (PhD Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, N.S., Canada) Bowling Green, African history
MYERS, Dowell (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981), University of Southern California, Immigration; ethnic change/demographic diversity & trends; growth management; housing & urban development; demography; real estate market analysis; local census data analysis; urban growth, sprawl & quality of life
MYERS, Linda James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1975) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and Psychology; Psychology, gender issues and international health
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NAGATA, Donna (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, 1981) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of Psychology; psychosocial consequences of the Japanese American internment, Asian American mental health, multicultural issues in psychotherapy, intergenerational and family relations
NAGEL, Joane (PhD, Stanford Univ.,) University of Kansas Professor of Sociology
NAPIER, Rita (PhD, American Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of History
NAZARETH, Peter; Univ. of Iowa, Professor of English/African American World Studies
NEGRETE, Louis (PhD, United States International University) Cal State Univ., Los Angeles, Sociology, community organizing
NELKIN, Dorothy (AB, Cornell Univ., 1954) New York University Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor of Law; science, technology, social, and political implications of medicine
NELSON, Alondra , Yale, African American Studies, Sociology
NELSON, Angela, Department of Popular Culture; Bowling Green State University African-American popular culture, American television and television situation comedies, American popular music (with particular attention to black)
NELSON, William E. (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, 1971) Ohio State, Research Professor of African American and African Studies and Political Science; Black urban politics, race and ethnic relations, public policy
NEMEROV, Alexander (PhD, Yale) Yale, Professor of HYA and American Studies, 19th and 20th century art
NEUFELDT, Leonard (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, 1966) Purdue University Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, intellectual history, American Studies history and methods
NEWCOMB, Horace M. (PhD, Chicago Univ., 1969) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Communications, F.J. Heyne Centennial Professor in Communication
NEWSUM, Horace (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1977) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Black literature and African political economy
NGUYEN, Niet (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1997), University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of English; Asian Americans, American literature and film
NICKERSON, Catherine (PhD, Yale Univ., 1991) Emory University Associate Professor; 20th-century American literature and culture
NIEMAN, Donald, Department of History; Bowling Green State University U.S. legal and constitutional history, emphasis on race and civil rights in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Civil War and Reconstruction (with emphasis on slavery, emancipation, and its aftermath, African-American history
NOBLE, David (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1952) University of Minnesota Professor; intellectual history and literature
NOBLE, Gail (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1979) University of Minnesota Associate Professor; developmental learning
NORICH, Anita (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1979) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of English and Judaic Studies; Yiddish literature, Jewish American culture
NORLING, Lisa (PhD, Rutgers Univ., 1992) University of Minnesota Assistant Professor of History; maritime history
NORMENT, Nathaniel, Jr. (Ph.D., Fordham University, 1984) Temple Univ.
NORWOOD, Vera (PhD, Univ. of New Mexico, 1974) University of New Mexico Professor of American Studies; environment, Southwest studies, women's studies
NOVERR, Douglas (PhD, Miami Univ. of Ohio, 1972) Michigan State University Professor of English; 19th-century American literature and culture, sports history, American art history
NUDELMAN, Franny; University of Virginia Assistant Professor of English
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OBOLER, Suzanne (PhD, New York Univ., 1991) Brown University Associate Professor; Latino/a American Studies, literature
O'BRIEN, Jean (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1990) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of History; Indians of the Northeast
O'BRIEN-FIXICO, Sharon (PhD, Oregon) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor, Political Science and Indeigenous Nations Studies
O'BRIEN, Sharon (Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of Political Science and Indigenous Nations Studies
O'CONNELL, Joanna (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1988) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of English; Spanish American literature
O'CONNELL, Shaun (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts) University of Massachusetts, Boston Professor of English; Irish American literature and culture, 20th- century American fiction
O'CONNER, Carol; Utah State University American urban and 20th-century history
O'DONNELL, Patrick (PhD, Univ. of California, Davis, 1979) Michigan State University Chair of English Department; postmodern literature and culture, history and theory of narrative, general American literature and American Studies
O'DONOVAN, Susan, Harvard, Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History
OGAWA, Dennis M. (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1969) University of Hawai’i, Manoa Professor; intercultural, Japanese American studies
OJA, Carol (PhD, City Univ. of New York) William Powell Mason Professor of Music
OKUR, Nilgun Anadolu (Ph.D., Hacettepe Univ., Ankara, Turkiye, 1984) Temple Univ.
OMI, Michael (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) UC Berkeley; Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies; Asians in America, on Asian American politics and political movements, and on racial theory and politics
ONG, Rory J. (PhD, Miami Univ.) Washington State University Associate Professor of English and Comparative American Cultures; Asian/Pacific American literature and culture, cultural rhetoric and studies
ONYEJEKWE, Okey L. (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1978) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and Journalism; Director, Center for African Studies; African politics
OREOVICZ, Cheryl (PhD, Pennsylvania State Univ., 1972) Purdue University Assistant Professor of English; colonial and early national American literature, women's literature, American Studies history and methods
ORSI, Robert (Ph.D., Yale University) Harvard, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion
OWEN, Christopher (PhD, Emory Univ.) Northeastern State University Associate Professor of History
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PABST, Naomi, Yale, African American Studies
PADULA, Alfred (PhD, Univ. of New Mexico, 1975) University of Southern Maine Associate Professor of History; South American , Hispanic studies
PALMER, Phyllis (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1973) George Washington University Professor of Women's Studies and American Civilization; women's studies, race studies
PALUDAN, Phillip (PhD, Univ. of Illinois) University of Kansas Professor of History; Civil War, mid-19th-century America
PAOLETTI, Jo B. (PhD, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 1980) University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor; material culture studies, clothing and culture, culture of childhood
PARIKH, Crystal (PhD, Univ. of Maryland) Univ. of Utah, Asian American Literature, ethnic studies
PARK, John S. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2000), University of Texas, Austin, Assistant Professor; immigration law and history, race and ethnicity, Asian American History, American constitutional law, Anglo-American political theory
PARKS, Sheri (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1985) University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor; popular aesthetics, mass media, race, gender, family
PATRAKA, Vivian, Department of English; Bowling Green State University 20th-century American theatre and performance, feminist studies in relation to theatre and visual art, performance studies (theatre and public spectacle with a focus on fascism, genocide, public discourse, and museums
PAULIN, Diana (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1999) Yale University Assistant Professor of American Studies and English; theater history, the history of race
PEDRAZA, Silivia (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1980) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of Sociology; sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, the labor market incorporation of immigrants and ethnics in America, immigrants and refugees as social types, comparative studies of immigrants and ethnics in America, historical and contemporary
PELLS, Richard H. (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1969) University of Texas, Austin Professor of History
PENA, Susan (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Bowling Green, Sociology
PENN, William (BA, Syracuse Univ., 1979) Michigan State University Professor of Creative Writing; oral tradition, American identities, cross-cultural studies, comparative literature
PENNINGTON, Dorthy (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Communication Studies and African and African American Studies; African-American women, communications
PENNYBACKER, Susan (PhD, Cambridge Univ., 1985) Trinity College Associate Professor of History; modern Britain, racial politics in the Atlantic World of the 1930s, metropolitan urban history, Anglo-American history, history of immigration and documentary photography
PERDUE, Charles; University of Virginia Professor of Anthropology
PEREZ, Laura; UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor in the departments of Ethnic Studies and, Spanish and Portuguese; contemporary U.S. Latina and Latin American women's writing; Chicana/o literature and visual arts; and contemporary cultural theory
PERFECTO, Ivette (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1989) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of Natural Resources; agricultural ecology and tropical ecology in Latin America, natural resources and sustainability issues in the Tropics, conservation of biodiversity
PERKINS, Margo (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1995) Trinity College Assistant Professor of English and American Studies; African American literature and culture, 20th century autobiography, 1960's activist/countercultural movements, race, class and gender issues
PERKINSON, Robert (PhD, Yale Univ., 2001) Univ. of Hawaii, Assistant Professor; southern and western history, race and gender, crime and punishment
PERNICK, Martin (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1979) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of History; biocultural history of health, disease and medicine
PERRY, Lewis (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1967) Saint Louis University Professor; 19th-century intellectual history, abolitionism
PERTUSATI, Linda, Department of Ethnic Studies; Bowling Green State University indigenous issues in the U.S. and Canada, nationalism and social movements, race and ethnicity, and qualitative research methods
PESSAR, Patricia (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1976) Yale University Adjunct Associate Professor of American Studies; social anthropology, migration studies
PETERSEN, Glenn (PhD, Columbia Univ.) City University of New York Professor of Anthropology at Baruch College
PETERSON, Carla L. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1976) University of Maryland, College Park Professor of English; 19th century African American women writers
PETERSON, Charles, Jr. (M.A. Binghamton Univ., 1995) Temple Univ.
PETERSON, Nancy (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1991) Purdue University Associate Professor of English; 20th-century American literature, minority studies, gender studies, Native American studies
PETTEGREW, John (PhD Univ. of Wisconsin, 1994) Lehigh University Assistant Professor of History; twentieth-century U.S. intellectual and cultural history
PEWEWARDY, Cornel (D.Ed., Pennsylvania State Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Assistant Professor of Teaching and Leadership
PFEIL, John Frederick (MA, Stanford Univ., 1973) Trinity College Professor of English; creative writing, postmodernism, cultural studies
PHILLIPS, Kimberley (PhD, Yale Univ.) College of William and Mary Associate Professor of History; African American working class culture and history
PIERCE, Harriette M.; Univ. of Iowa, Visiting Professor of Drama/ African American World Studies
PIERCE, Jennifer (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1991) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of History; gender, race relations, contemporary labor studies
PIERCE, Paulette (PhD, City Univ. of New York, Graduate School, 1982) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Political sociology and gender issues
PIEROTTI, Raymond (Ph.D., Dalhousie Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
PITTI, Stephen (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1999) Yale University Assistant Professor, American Studies and History; American West, Chicano studies
PLATER, Michael (PhD, College of William and Mary, 1993) Brown University, Adjunct Associate Professor; African American studies, business history and entreprenuership
POGGO, Scopas (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1975) Ohio State, Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies; African and African American history
POLAN, Dana (Doctorat D'Etat, Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1987), University of Southern California, Professor and Chair of Critical Studies, School of Cinema-Television; American cinema, critical theory, cultural studies
POPE, C. Arden (PhD, Iowa State Univ., 1981) Brigham Young University Professor of Economics; environmental economics
POPKIN, Debra (PhD, Columbia Univ.) City University of New York Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Baruch College
PORTER, Robert B. (J.D., Harvard Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of Law; Director, Tribal Law and Government Center
POSNER, Alan (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1977) Michigan State University Associate Professor; social differentiation, political culture, popular culture, politics and literature
POWELL, John (JD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1973) University of Minnesota Professor; race and poverty
POWELL, Malea (PhD, Miami Univ. of Ohio, 1998) Michigan State University, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures; American Indian Rhetorics, Women's Studies, Rhetoric and Critical Theory, History of Rhetoric
POWER, Katharine (MFA, Smith College, 1978) Trinity College Associate Professor of Theater and Dance; 20th century American playwrights and choreographers, revisioning of the choregraphies of Martha Graham
POWERS, Richard (PhD, Brown Univ.) City University of New York Professor of History at Staten Island
PRELL, Riv-Ellen (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1978) University of Minnesota Associate Professor; ethnography, gender, ethnicity, and culture; American Jews and Judaism
PRESTON, Cathy (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of Theater and Film
PRESTON, Katherine (Ph.D., CUNY) College of William and Mary, Associate Professor of Music; 19th century popular music
PRESTON, Michael B. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1974), University of Southern California, Professor of Political Science; black politics, racial and ethnic politics, urban politics
PRICE, Richard (PhD, Harvard Univ.) College of William and Mary Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History; ethnographic history, Caribbean and African American culture
PRICE, Sally (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) College of William and Mary Professor of American Studies and Anthropology; non-western art, gender, Caribbean Culture
PULIDO, Laura (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1991), University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Geography; race, social movements, political activism
PULTZ, John (PhD, New York Univ.) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of History of Art; photography and modern art
PYE, Clifton L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh) Univ. of Kansas, Professor of Linguistics
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RABINOVITZ, Lauren (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1982) University of Iowa Associate Professor; popular culture, cinema and television, cultures of American women
RABINOWITZ, Paula (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1986) University of Minnesota Professor; culture theory
RACHMAN, Stephen (PhD, Yale Univ., 1993) Michigan State University, Director of American Studies Program. Associate Professor of English. 19th-century American literature, history of medicine, cultural studies, documentary film.
RADER, Brian (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma) Northeastern State University Professor of Political Science
RAEBURN, John (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1969) University of Iowa Professor; photography and film, popular culture, literature and culture
RAILTON, Stephen; University of Virginia Professor of English
RANDLE, Gloria (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Michigan State University Assistant Professor of English; African American literature
RANKIN, Robert L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago) Univ. of Kansas, Professor of Linguistics
RAPOSA, Michael L. (PhD Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1987) Lehigh University Associate Professor of Religious Studies
REED, Harry A. (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1975) Michigan State University, Professor; 19th- and 20th-century African American history
REED, T.V. (PhD, Univ. of California) Washington State University Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies; cultural theory, contemporary American fiction, social movements, popular culture
REHBERGER, Dean (PhD, Univ. of Utah, 1992) Michigan State University Assistant Professor; cultural studies, critical theory, new historicism, American Studies methods, nationalism, Civil War, American studies/literature 1800-1950
REUBEN, Julie (Ph.D., Stanford University) Harvard University, Professor of Education (School of Education)
RHODES, Rosamond (PhD, City University of New York ) City University of New York Associate Professor of Medical Education at Mt. Sinai
RIBUFFO, Leo (PhD, Yale Univ., 1976) George Washington University Professor of History; recent political and cultural history
RICHARDSON, Joan T. (PhD, City University of New York ) City University of New York Professor of English and Comparative Literature at LaGuardia Community College
RICHMAN, Irwin (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1974) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Professor of History and American Studies; arts and architecture, mass culture, history of medicine
RIDOUT, Orlando V. (BA, Univ. of Virginia, 1977) George Washington University Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Civilization; documentation of historic properties
RIVERA-SALGADO, Gaspar (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1999), University of Southern California, Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity; Latino immigrant communities, social movements, transnational political organizing, race, class and ethnicity
RIGAL, Laura (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1989) University of Iowa Associate Professor; technology, the environment, literature and culture of the Revolution and early Republic
RHODES, Jane (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1992) Univ. of California, San Diego, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
ROBERTS, Allen; Univ. of Iowa, Professor of Anthropology/African American World Studies
ROBERTS, Jennifer (Ph.D., Yale University) Harvard University, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
ROBERTS, Nancy (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1982) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of English; literature of journalism
ROBERTS, Philip (PhD, Univ. of Washington, 1990) University of Wyoming Associate Professor; western history, public history
ROBERTS, Randy (PhD, Louisiana State University, 1978) Purdue Univ., Professor of History, Recent U.S., Sports History, and Popular Culture
RODRIGUEZ, Richard T. (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) Cal State Univ., Los Angeles, Chicano/a cultural studies, film and video, popular culture, working class culture
ROEDIGER, David (PhD) Univ. of Illinois, Professor of History; class and racial formations
ROEMER, Michael (BA, Harvard Univ., 1949) Yale University Adjunct Professor of American Studies and Art; film
ROGERS, Michael (PhD, Northern Illinois Univ.) Northeastern State University Associate Professor of History
ROHS, Stephen (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 2000) Michigan State University, Assistant Professor of American Studies; 19th century cultural history, Irish immigration history, Ethnomusicology, Globalization, Cultural theory
ROHY, Valerie, Department of English; Bowling Green State University American literature 1850-1950, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, psychoanalytic criticism
ROJAS, Guillermo (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, 1970) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of English; literature and culture
ROLLINS, Peter C. (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1972) Okalohoma State University Regents Professor of English and American/Film Studies; film, documentary, censorship
ROMAN, Camille (PhD, Brown Univ.) Washington State University Associate Professor of English; 20th-century American and British literature, feminist theory, modern and postmodern American poetry, music studies
ROME, Dennis M. (Ph.D. Washington State Univ.) Indiana Univ., Assistant Professor
ROMERO, Bazán (Ph.D., Bowling Green State Univ.) University of New Mexico; environmental justice, post-colonial studies, chicano/a studies
ROMINES, Ann (PhD, George Washington Univ., 1977) George Washington University Professor of English; American literature, women's studies
ROSA, Iris (M.S., Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Associate Professor, Director of the Afro-American Dance Company
ROSE, James (MA, Univ. of Virginia, 1973) University of Wyoming Associate Professor; American architecture, historic preservation
ROSE, Tricia (PhD, Brown Univ., 1992) New York University Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History; black popular culture and music, media, gender, class, and the city
ROSENBERG, Charles (Ph.D., Columbia Univ.) Harvard, Professor of the History of Science
ROSENBLOOM, Joshua (PhD, Stanford Univ.) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Economics; American economic history
ROSENFELT, Deborah S. (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1972) University of Maryland, College Park Professor of English; women's writers and social change in the modern U.S., diversity and curricula change in higher education
ROSS, Andrew (PhD, Univ. of Kent, 1984) New York University Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of American Studies Program; media and cultural studies, intellectual history, social and political theory, urban studies
ROSS, Cheri L. (PhD, Purdue Univ., 1991) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Associate Professor of Humanities and English Education; American literature, ethnic literature, women's studies
ROSS, Luana K. (Ph.D.) University of California Davis, Associate Professor
ROSS, Steven J. (PhD, Princeton Univ., 1980), University of Southern California, Professor of History; U.S. social, labor, popular culture
ROSTOW, Elspeth D. (MA, Cambridge Univ., 1949) University of Texas, Austin Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Stiles Professor Emeritus in American Studies
ROTH, Marty (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1965) University of Minnesota Professor of English; U.S. and women novelists
ROUSH, Jan; Utah State University American Studies, folklore
ROWE, Anne E.* (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, 1973) Florida State University Professor of English; American literature, Southern women authors
RUBENSTEIN, Bruce (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1972) University of Michigan, Flint Professor of History; Michigan political history, American-Indian/White relations in the Great Lakes Region, history of baseball's World Series
RUBENSTEIN, Diane (PhD, Yale Univ., 1985) Purdue University Associate Professor of Political Science; American politics, political theory, cultural theory
RUBIN, Rachel (PhD, Yale Univ.) University of Massachusetts, Boston Associate Professor of American Studies; American literature and the left, ethnic literatures, American popular music
RUDNICK, Lois (PhD, Brown Univ., 1977) University of Massachusetts, Boston Professor; social and cultural history, American and ethnic literatures, modernism, literature and arts of the Southwest .
RUGH, Susan (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1993) Brigham Young University Assistant Professor of History; rural America
RUTLEDGE, Frank (MA, Ohio State University) Professor of Theater. American playwriting and drama, 19th-century American opera houses, American theater history.
RYDEN, Kent (PhD, Brown Univ., 1991) University of Southern Maine Associate Professor; cultural geography, folklore, regional literature, environment, landscape studies
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