Publications: Directory of Graduate Programs in American Studies

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SAILES, Gary (Ph.D., Univ. of Minnesota) Indiana Univ., Adjunct Professor

SAITO, Leland (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1992), University of Southern California, Race and ethnic relations; Asian American Studies; urban politics; community studies; urban sociology; qualitative research methods

SALEM, James (PhD, Louisiana State Univ., 1965) University of Alabama, Professor; American drama, American popular music, mass culture

SALVADOR, Michael (PhD, Univ. of Utah) Washington State University Associate Professor of Communications; cross-cultural communications, social movement rhetoric, Native Americans and environmentalism

SALDIVAR, Jose; UC Berkeley; Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies; Cultural Studies, Subaltern American Studies and Chicana/o Studies

SAMUELS, Wilfred (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) University of Utah Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies; African-American literature and culture

SANCHEZ, George J. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1989), University of Southern California, Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor and Director of Program in American Studies and Ethnicity; Chicano/a, immigration, American West

SANDEEN, Eric J. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1977) University of Wyoming Professor; urban culture, photography, cultural landscapes, internationalization of American Studies

SANDON, Leo (PhD, Boston Univ., 1971) Florida State University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Religion; Director, Program in American Studies; religion in America, American intellectual history

SARAGOZA, Alex (Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego) UC Berkeley; Mexican cinema, radio and television. His current interests center on ideology and representation from a transnational perspective.

SARLES, Harvey (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1966) University of Minnesota Professor of Anthropology; language

SCHATZ, Thomas G. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1976) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Communication, Philip G. Warner Regents Professor in Communication

SCHERER, Donald, Department of Philosophy; Bowling Green State University environmental discourse, American institutions

SCHMIDT CAMACHO, Alicia (PhD, Stanford Univ, 2000) Yale University Assistant Professor of American Studies and African American Studies; ethnic studies, Latino/a studies

SCHOEM, David (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1979) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology; intergroup relations, conflict and community, Jewish identity community, multicultural organizational change, higher education reform, multicultural teaching

SCHOFIELD, Ann (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, 1980) University of Kansas Associate Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies; U.S. women's history, cultural history

SCHOLNICK, Robert (PhD, Brandeis Univ.) College of William and Mary Professor of English and American Studies; 19th century American literature and culture, literature and science

SCHREIBER, Rebecca (PhD, Yale, 2000) University of New Mexico, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Cultural Studies, with a focus in Media Studies and Visual Culture, 20th Century U.S. cultural and political history, and new approaches to American Studies, particularly transnational and "Post-Nationalist" American Studies

SCHULMAN, Bruce (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Boston University Associate Professor of History; 20th century American history

SCHULTZ, Elizabeth A. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) University of Kansas Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor of English and Humanities; American literature, women's writing, African-American writing

SCOBEY, David (PhD, Yale Univ.) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor of American Culture and History; 19th- and 20th-century American cultural and social history, urban history, American working class history, planning and built environment, cultural studies, cultural theory, architecture and design

SCOTT, Alison, Department of Popular Culture; Bowling Green State University history of popular fiction, especially 19th and 20th century, history of the book in Western Europe and North America, textual bibliography, women's reading in 19th-century U.S.

SCOTT, David (Ph.D., New School for Social Research) Columbia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Research Fellow of African-American Studies.

SCOTT, William R. (PhD Princeton Univ., 1972) Lehigh University Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies; Africa, African American history

SCHRIEBER, Maeera (PhD, Brandeis) Univ. of Utah, Modern poetry, women's poetry, history of the lyric, Jewish American literature

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

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

SEIGFRIED, Charlene Haddock (PhD, Loyola Univ., 1973) Purdue University Professor of Philosophy; classical American philosophy, pragmatist feminism

SENKEVITCH, Anatole (PhD, Cornell Univ., 1974) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of Architecture and History of Art; American and Soviet architectural history, vernacular architecture, historic preservation

SENNETT, Richard (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1969) New York University University Professor of Humanities; urban culture and social thought

SEVERENS, Kenneth (PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1968), Univ. of Southern Maine, Adjunct Professor; architectural history, comparative regional studies

SHABAZZ, Amilcar (PhD, Univ. of Houston, 1996) University of Alabama, Assistant Professor and Director of African American Studies; African American history, African diaspora, media

SHADE, William G. (PhD Wayne State Univ., 1966) Lehigh University Professor of History; Jacksonian America, quantitative methods

SHALINSKY, Audrey (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1979) University of Wyoming Professor; cultural anthropology

SHARISTANIAN, Janet (PhD, Brown Univ.) University of Kansas Associate Professor of English; women's literature

SHARP, Michael (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma) Northeastern State University Associate Professor of History

DUBIOS SHAW, Gwendolyn (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.) Harvard, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and of Afro-American Studies

SHELL, Marc (Ph.D., Yale Univ.) Harvard, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English

SHELTON, Robert L. (PhD, Boston Univ.) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Religious Studies; social ethics and communication in religion

SHERZER, William (PhD, Princeton) City University of New York Professor of Spanish at Brooklyn College

SHIELDS, Peter, Department of Telecommunications; Bowling Green State University political economy of the media, critical approaches to policy and law, information-communication technologies and surveillance

SHIELDS, Vicki, Department of Telecommunications; Bowling Green State University cultural and critical approaches to the study of media and popular culture, gendered images and audiences of film, television and advertising, the relationship between media images and women's body discipline, women's subculture, investigating alternative methodologies for cultural and feminist audiences research

SHIFRER, Anne; Utah State University 20th-century American literature and literary theory

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

SHIPLEY, Maurice W. (PhD, Univ. of Illinois) Ohio State, Professor of African American and African Studies; African American literature and Black women writers

SHORTRIDGE, Barbara (Univ. of Kansas) University of Kansas Assistant Professor of Geography

SHORTRIDGE, James (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) University of Kansas Professor of Geography; American cultural geography, the Midwest

SICHEL, Kim (PhD, Yale Univ.) Boston Univ., Assistant Professor of Art History; history of photography and modern art

SICHERMAN, Barbara (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1967) Trinity College William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values; women's studies, family, ethnicity, cultural history

SIDER, Gerald M. (PhD, New School for Social Research) City University of New York Professor of Anthropology at Staten Island

SIDWELL, David; Utah State University Theatre

SIEBER, Tim (PhD, New York Univ.) University of Massachusetts, Boston Professor of Anthropology; community studies, socialization and education, urban anthropology, urban public culture, multiculturalism

SIEGEL, Carol (Ph.D., Univ. of California) Washington State Univ., Professor of English; gender, race and class in film and literature; feminst theory; sexuality

SIES, Mary Corbin (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1987) University of Maryland, College Park Associate Professor; material culture, cultural history, architectural, urban, and planning history

SILBER, Nina (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Boston University Assistant Professor of History; 19th-century American social and cultural history, women's history

SILVA, Denise Ferreira da (PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1999) Univ. of California, San Diego, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies; classic and contemporary social theory, critical race theory, cultural studies, critical global studies

SILVA-CORVALAN, Carmen (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1979), University of Southern California, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, bilingualism, Spanish and the United States

SILVERMAN, Henry (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Michigan State University Professor of History; Native American history, material culture, U.S. history of 1850

SIMMS, Steve; Utah State University Anthropology

SIKAINGA, Ahmad Alawad M. (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1986) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies and History; African history

SIPORIN, Steve; Utah State University Folklore

SKERRETT, Joseph T., Jr. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1975) University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor of English; African American literature and culture, American literature 1870 to present, ethnicity

SKINNER, Ewart, Department of Telecommunications; Bowling Green State University global dispersion of labor and its relationship to global dissemination of information and telecommunication technologies, cultural impact of media and information systems internationally, cultural theory/studies

SKRTIC, Thomas M. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) University of Kansas Professor of Special Education; mainstreaming educational policy

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

SLOANE, David (PhD, Syracuse Univ., 1984), University of Southern California, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development; urban history, cultural landscapes, community planning

SMITH, Judith (PhD, Brown University, 1980) University of Massachusetts, Boston Associate Professor of History; social and cultural history, ethnicity and immigration, women's history, urban history, popular culture

SMITH, Mark C. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1980) University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor; history of social science and social work, drugs and alcohol in American culture

SMITH, Richard Candida (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1992) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of History of American Culture, Director of the American Culture Program; U.S. intellectual history, with focus on aesthetic and psychological theory, memory, narration, identity

SMITH-ROSENBERG, Carroll (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1968) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, Professor of American Culture & Women's Studies; gender and class in 19th century America, American identity and the U.S. Constitution

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

SNYDER, Robert E. (PhD, Syracuse Univ., 1980) University of South Florida Professor of American Studies; popular culture, photography, film, the American South

SNYDER, Terri (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1992) California State University, Fullerton Lecturer of American Studies; gender studies, Southern culture, colonial history

SODERLUND, Jean (PhD Temple Univ., 1982) Lehigh University Professor of History; colonial America, African American history, U.S. women

SOLLORS, Werner (Ph.D., Freie Universität, Berlin) Harvard, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies

SOMMER, Doris (Ph.D., Rutgers Univ.) Harvard, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

SPADE, Joan Z. (PhD State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1983) Lehigh University Associate Professor of Sociology; sociology of education, stratification, gender

SPANO, Rick (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Social Welfare

SPENCER, Jenny (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1982) University of Massachusetts, Amherst Associate Professor of English; performance studies, feminist studies, modern and contemporary theater and drama

SPICKARD, Paul (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1983) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Affiliate Professor; multicultural studies

SPIGEL, Lynn (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1988), University of Southern California, Professor, School of Cinema-Television; television, feminism, cultural history, American film

SPONHOLTZ, Lloyd (PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh) University of Kansas Associate Professor of History; business history, populism, progressivism, alcohol in American history

SPRINGER, Haskell (PhD, Indiana Univ.) University of Kansas Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, the sea

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

STACEY, Judith (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1979), University of Southern California, Professor of Sociology; gender, family change and politics, feminist theory

STAIGER, Janet (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1981) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Communications

STALEY, Thomas F. (PhD, Pittsburgh Univ., 1962; DHL, Regis College, 1979) University of Texas, Austin Professor of English, C.B. Smith Sr., Nash Phillips, Clyde Copus Centennial Chair Honoring Harry Huntt Ranson

STAM, Robert (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1976) New York University Professor of Cinema Studies; Third World film, Brazilian film, semiotics, literature-film relations, American independent film

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

STANNARD, David E. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1975) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Professor; social and cultural history, theory and method

STANTON, Joseph C. (PhD, New York Univ., 1988) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Cooperative Professor, Comparative Arts

STANTON-SALAZAR, Ricardo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990), University of Southern California, Academic achievement strategies of minority and immigrant urban youth

STAPLES, William G. (PhD, Univ. of Southern California) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Sociology; comparative, historical, medical and legal systems, political sociology, theory, work and organizations

STAUB, Michael Department of English; Bowling Green State University 20th-century American literary and cultural history, critical race studies, American documentary and ethnographic expression, including film, narratives of the American community, history of journalism, methodologies of American Studies, U.S. Literary and Political Culture 1950s-1990s, nonfiction genres, Holocaust consciousness and Black-Jewish dialogue

STAUFFER, John (Ph.D., Yale Univ.) Harvard, Assistant Professor of English and American Literature and Language

STEARMAN, Roberta; Utah State University American fiction

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

STEINBERG, Michael (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1974) Michigan State University Professor; modern and contemporary American literature, creative writing, teacher education

STEINER, Michael (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1978) California State University, Fullerton Professor of American Studies; regional and folk studies, built environment, environmental history

STEINLE, Pamela H. (PhD, Univ. of California-Irvine, 1987) California State University, Fullerton Associate Professor of American Studies; literature and culture, television studies, cultural theory

STEKERT, Ellen (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1965) University of Minnesota Professor of History; folklore

STEPTO, Robert (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1974) Yale University Professor of American Studies, Afro-American Studies, and English; literature, Afro-American studies

STERN, Jacob (PhD, Columbia Univ.) City University of New York Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at City College

STIEBER, Nancy (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) University of Massachusetts, Boston Professor of Art; history of architecture

STOLL, Steven (PhD) Yale University Assistant Professor of History; environmental history

STREAMAS, John (PhD, Bowling Green). Washington State, Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies. Asian/Paciific American Studies; race theory; film and popular culture

STROMQUIST, Nelly (PhD, Stanford Univ.), University of Southern California, Professor of Education, Division of Educational Policy, Planning and Administration; international development, education, gender

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

STOTT, William M. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1972) University of Texas, Austin Professor; strategies of popular nonfiction writing, photohistory, autobiography, literature

STOUT, Harry (PhD, Kent State Univ., 1974) Yale University Professor of Religious Studies, Divinity, and American Studies

STOWE, David (PhD, Yale Univ.) Michigan State University Assistant Professor of American Thought and Language; American popular music

STROVER, Sharon L. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1982) University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor of Communications

STRUNA, Nancy L. (PhD, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, 1979) University of Maryland, College Park Professor; social history, popular culture, leisure and sport history, critical theory

STUDLAR, Gaylan (PhD, Univ. of Southern California, 1984) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of Film and Video Studies Director and English Language and Literature; film studies, research in gender and film, construction of masculinity in film, 1920s film and American culture, melodrama, American film genres, the western, women's film, psychoanalytic film theory and feminist cultural theory, consumerism and cultural theory

STULL, Donald D. (PhD, Univ. of Colorado) University of Kansas Professor of Anthropology; applied, policy studies, ethnic relations, rapid-growth communities, North American Indians and Anglo-Americans

STURGEON, Noël (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) Washington State University Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies; feminist theory, race, gender and environment, social movements

STURKEN, Marita (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1992), University of Southern California, Associate Professor, Anneberg School for Communications; cultural studies, popular culture, culture and technology, visual culture

SULLIVAN, John; University of Virginia Associate Professor of English

SULLIVAN, Teresa A. (PhD, Chicago Univ., 1975) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Sociology

SVINGEN, Orlan J. (PhD, Univ. of Toledo) Washington State University Associate Professor of History; public history, 19th-century U.S. history, Native American history

SVOBODA, Frederic J. (PhD, Michigan State Univ., 1978) University of Michigan, Flint Professor of English; American literature, American culture, American film

SYKES, Charles (D.M.E. Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Lecturer

SZWED, John (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1984) Yale University Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies; literature, photography

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TAKAKI, Ronald (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) UC Berkeley; Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies; Asian American History, multicultural history

TANG, Edward (PhD, New York Univ., 1996) University of Alabama, A Assistant Professor; American intellectual and cultural history, Asian American studies, African American studies

TANG, Frank (MA, Yenching Univ., 1951) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Visiting Associate Professor; American-Chinese issues

TANG, Scott (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 2002) Assistant Professor of American Studies; race and American culture

TANG, Suet-ling Shirley (PhD, SUNY Buffalo) University of Massachusetts, Boston, Assistant Professor of American Studies; Asian American studies

TARG, Harry (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1967) Purdue University Professor of Political Science; American politics, American labor/left, international relations

TATUM, Stephen (PhD, Univ. of Utah, 1981) University of Utah Associate Professor of English; 19th-century American literature and culture, popular culture, Western Americana

TAVES, Ann (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1983) Claremonet School of Theology Professor of History of Christianity and American Religion; American religious history, history of women

TAYLOR, Henry (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) State University of New York, Buffalo Director, Center for Applied Public Affairs Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies; African American history, urban policy

TAYLOR, William (MS, Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Lecturer

TAYLOR, Ula Y. (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992) University of Southern California, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity, African American History (1890-1970); Black Nationalism; Pan-Africanism; Black Feminist Theory; Women’s History

TCHEN, John Kuo Wei (PhD, New York Univ., 1992) New York University Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies; racialization and identity formation, theorizing public cultural practices (museums, multimedia, etc.) New York University, the cross-cultural history of New York City & globalization

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

TEHRANIAN, Katharine K. (PhD, Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa, 1989) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Associate Professor; cultural, arts, environment, and society

TERRIE, Philip, Department of English; Bowling Green State University American environmental literature, American culture studies, American fiction

THOMAS, Douglas (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1992), University of Southern California, Assistant Professor, Anneberg School for Communication; cultural studies of technology, subculture, youth culture

THOMAS, Jeannie; Utah State University Folklore

THOMAS, Karin (PhD, Yale University, 2001) Penn State University, Harrisburg, Assistant Professor of American Studies and African Studies; African American and Ethnic Literature, Cultural Anthropology, and travel writing

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

THOMPSON, Shirley E. (PhD, Harvard Univ, 2001). University of Texas, Austin, Assistant Professor; nineteenth-century cultural history, narratives of slavery and freedom, race and ethnicity, African American literature, historiography

THORNTON, J. Mills (PhD, Yale Univ., 1974) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of History; southern U.S. history 1820-1880, history of Civil Rights Movement, 1940-1970, history of American Constitution, evolution of American political ideology

THOMPSON, Robert, Yale, (History of Art)

THURMAIER, Kurt (Ph.D., Syracuse Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Associate Professor of Public Administration, Russian and East European Studies Program

TIBBITTS, Bruce (PhD, Univ. of Tulsa) Northeastern State University Professor of English

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

TODD, Janice S. (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1990) University of Texas, Austin Assistant Professor of Kinesiology

TOELKEN, Barre; Utah State University Folklore

TOONE, Tom; Utah State University Art history

TORRY, Robert (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1988) University of Wyoming Associate Professor; film, popular culture, critical theory

TRABOULAY, David (PhD, Univ. of Notre Dame) City University of New York Professor of History at Staten Island

TROPMAN, John (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1967) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of Social Work and Business Administration; values, value conflict, religious values, charity and charitable values, group decision making

TULIS, Jeffrey K. (PhD, Chicago Univ., 1982) University of Texas, Austin Associate Professor of Government

TULLOS, Allen (PhD, Yale Univ., 1985) Emory University Associate Professor of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts; Southern studies, documentary film

TUTTLE, William M., Jr. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1967) University of Kansas Professor of American Studies and History; recent U.S. social, political, and cultural history, childhood and the family, African American history

TWEED, Thomas (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1989) University of North Carolina Associate Professor of Religious Studies

TYLER, Ron C. (PhD, Texas Christian Univ., 1968) University of Texas, Austin Professor of History

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THATCHER ULRICH, Laurel (Ph.D., Univ. of New Hampshire) Harvard, Professor of History and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History

UM, Khatharya (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies; transnational and on cultural transmission in the context of population dislocation

UPTON, James (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1976) Ohio State, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies; Political sociology, political history and research methodology

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VALDES, Dennis (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1978) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of History; Chicano history and labor

VALOCCHI, Stephen (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1985) Trinity College Associate Professor of Sociology; gay liberation movement in the 1960s, gay culture and the politics of the new left

VANCE, William (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Boston University Professor of English; 19th-century American literature and culture, relations between literature and art

VANDERMEER, John (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1969) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of Biology; environmental sciences, environmental justice, race, class, gender and the environment, sustainable development, Latino(a) University of Michigan, Ann Arbors and third world issues, science and society

VARSE, Stefano (Ph.D.) University of California Davis, Professor

VECOLI, Rudolph (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1963) University of Minnesota Professor of History; immigration history

VEGA-HURTADO, Margarita de la (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1992) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lecturer in American Culture & Residential College; American culture, film and video studies, Latino studies, Latin American cinemas, literature and culture

VENKATESH, Sudhir Venkatesh (Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago) Columbia, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies.

VERSLUIS, Arthur (PhD) Professor of American Thought and Language. 19th-Century American Literature; Creative writing; German romanticism; and religious studies

VICKERS, Anita (PhD, Purdue Univ., 1992) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Associate Professor of Humanities and English; American women writers, literature and culture of the early Republic

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

VINOVSKIS, Maris (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1975) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of History; American family and social history, policy analysis

VISER, Victor (PhD, Temple Univ., 1994) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Humanities and Communication Studies; communication theory, history of photography, mass media and politics, advertising and social issues

VIVERO, Manuel (PhD, City Univ. of New York) City University of New York Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages at Medgar Evers College

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

VOGEL, Todd (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1999) Trinity College Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies and English; African American literature, ethnic literature, literature about class and labor, antebellum literature, social history, cultural studies

VON FRANK, Albert J. (PhD, Univ. of Missouri) Washington State University Professor of English; colonial and 19th-century American literature

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WADLINGTON, Warwick P. (PhD, Tulane Univ., 1967) University of Texas, Austin Professor of English, Hoan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor in Rhetoric and Composition

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

WAITE, Lori (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1998) Trinity College Assistant Professor of Sociology; social movements, urban sociology, race, social inequality

WAJDA, Shirley Teresa (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1992) Kent State Univ., Assistant Professor of American Studies and History; history of consumption, material and visual culture, women's studies, nineteenth-century American culture

WALD, Alan (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1974) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of American Culture and English; 20th-century U.S. literary radicalism, U.S. writers of color, Marxism and cultural studies in the U.S., history of U.S. socialism and communism, Socialist and Trotskyist movements, Jewish American writers of the Left, the 1960s and the New Left

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

WALDINGER, Renee (PhD, Columbia Univ.) City University of New York Professor of French at City College

WALKER, James (PhD, George Peabody College of Vanderbilt Univ.) Northeastern State University Professor of English

WALKER, Jeffrey (PhD, Pennsylvania State Univ., 1976) Okalohoma State University Associate Professor of English; colonial and 19th-century America, film

WALKER, Lisa (PhD, Louisiana State Univ., 1991) University of Southern Maine Associate Professor of History; South American, Hispanic studies

WALKIEWICZ, Ed (PhD, Univ. of New Mexico, 1980) Okalohoma State University Associate Professor of English; Pound and Eliot, post-modernism

WALKOWITZ, Daniel J. (PhD, Univ. of Rochester, 1972) New York University Professor of History and Director of Metropolitan Studies; American social history, public history, film and history

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

WALLACE-SANDERS, Kimberly (PhD, Boston Univ., 1995) Emory University Assistant Professor of African American Studies

WALLACH, Alan (PhD, Columbia Univ.) College of William and Mary Wark Professor of Fine Arts; American art history

WALTZER, Kenneth (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1977) Michigan State University 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

WANG, Ling-ch (M.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley) UC Berkeley; Asian American history, Asian American civil rights issues; Overseas Chinese; U.S. foreign policies in Asia; bilingual education; and Asian Americans in higher education

WARD, Carol (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1992) Brigham Young University Associate Professor of Sociology; Native American culture and society

WARNER, John Harley (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1984) Yale University Professor of History of Medicine and American Studies; medical

WASHINGTON, Mary (PhD Johns Hopkins Univ., 1997) Lehigh University Assistant Professor of Sociology; historical sociology, sociology of government statistics, race, gender and social status and stratification

WATSON, O. Michael (PhD, Univ. of Colorado, 1967) Purdue University Professor of Anthropology; visual anthropology, nonverbal behavior, ethnography of communities in U.S

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

WATTS, Jerry G. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1985) Trinity College Associate Professor of American Studies; African American Studies, political science

WEBSTER, Edgar (PhD, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Northeastern State University Professor of Sociology

WEDDINGTON, Sarah (JD, Univ. of Texas, 1967) University of Texas, Austin Adjunct Professor; gender-based discrimination, leadership in America

WEISBUCH, Robert (PhD, Yale Univ., 1972) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Professor of English; American and English romanticism, 19th-century American literature

WIESS, M. Lynn (Ph.D. Brandeis University) College of William and Mary, Professor of American Studies and English; African American and ethnic literature

WEISS, Tom (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina) University of Kansas Professor of Economics; American economic history

WELBURN, Ron (PhD, New York Univ., 1983) University of Massachusetts, Amherst Professor of English; 19th- and 20th-century America literature, Native American literature, musicology, social history, education

WENDLAND, Joel (MA, Univ. of El Paso) Bowling Green, History

WEST, Edward (MA, Rochester Inst. of Tech., 1973) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of School of Art and Design; perception and notation, light, space, and time

WEXLER, Laura (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1986) Yale University Associate Professor of Women's Studies and American Studies; literature, photography

WHITE, Barry (MA, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) State University of New York, Buffalo Lecturer in American Studies; Native American education, urban Indian communities

WHITE, Dana (PhD, George Washington Univ., 1969) Emory University Director of the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts; American urban and regional studies, oral history

WHITEHEAD , Kevin (MA, Syracuse Univ., 1978) University of Kansas, Lecturer for American Studies and English. Jazz studies

WHITMORE, Allan (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1970) University of Southern Maine Associate Professor of History; social and cultural history, colonial

WIGGINS, William H. Jr. (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Indiana Univ., Professor

WILLARD, William (PhD, Univ. of Arizona) Washington State University Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Comparative American Cultures; federal Indian policy, tribal governments, Native American literature, environmental racism

WILLIAMS, Johnny (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1995) Trinity College Assistant Professor of Sociology; religion, politics, social movements, cultural studies

WILLIAMS, Vernon (PhD, Brown Univ., 1977) Purdue University Professor of History; African American history, history of the social sciences, racial ideology, American cultural history

WILLIS, Ellen (AB, Barnard College, 1962) New York University Associate Professor of Journalism; cultural reporting and criticism, feminism and sexuality, personal writing

WILLIS, Rachel (PhD, Northwestern Univ., 1990) University of North Carolina Associate Professor of Economics; higher education

WILSON, Matthew (PhD, Rutgers Univ., 1978) Pennsylvanis State University, Harrisburg Associate Professor of Writing and the Humanities; American literature, African-American literature

WILSON, Richard Guy; University of Virginia Professor of Architectural History

WILSON, Theodore (PhD, Indiana Univ.) University of Kansas Professor of History; diplomatic and military history, Atlantic world

WOELFEL, James E. (PhD, St. Andrews Univ.) University of Kansas Professor of Philosophy, Western Civilization, and Humanities; philosophy of religion

WOLDU, Gail (PhD, Yale Univ., 1983) Trinity College Assistant Professor of Music; music of Black Americans, music of Black women, rap music, hip hop culture

WOLFORD, Lisa, Bowling Green State University, Department of Theater (Experimental Theater; Performance art; Issues of identity in contemporary theater and performance art)

WOLITZ, Seth L. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1965) University of Texas, Austin Professor of Judaic Studies, L.D., Marie, and Edwin Gale Chair of Judaic Studies

WONG, Janelle (Ph.D., Yale University, 2001) University of Southern California, Racial and ethnic politics, immigration, community institutions, Asian American politics, public opinion, political behavior

WONG, Sau-Ling (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.)UC Berkeley; Professor, Asian American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies; gender and ethnicity and women's and men's writing, autobiography, the Chinese diaspora, and Chinese immigrant literature

WOODARD, Fredrick; Univ. of Iowa, Associate Professor of English/African American World Studies

WORSTER, Donald E. (PhD, Yale Univ.) University of Kansas Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of History; environmental history, the west

WRIGHT, John (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1977) University of Minnesota Professor of English; 20th century literature

WRIGLEY, Julia (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) City University of New York Associate Professor of Sociology

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YAEGER, Patricia (PhD, Yale Univ., 1980) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies; women's studies and feminist theory, southern literature, southern women writers

YAMAMOTO, Akira Y. (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Univ. of Kansas, Professor of Anthropology

YATES, Gayle Graham (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1973) University of Minnesota Faculty Member; interdisciplinary American Studies; U.S. contemporary issues; U.S. in international perspective; U.S. women's literature, culture, history, and religion; feminism; regions: the South

YETMAN, Norman R. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1969) University of Kansas Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor of Sociology and American Studies; American racial and ethnic relations, sports in American culture, American religion

YOKATA, Kariann (MA, UCLA, 1994) Yale, Lecturer in American Studies, history

YORK, Neil Longley (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1978) Brigham Young University Professor of History; early American, technology

YOSHIHARA, Mari (PhD, Brown Univ., 1997) University of Hawai'i, Manoa Assistant Professor; cultural history, race and gender, U.S.-Asian relations, Asian-American studies

YOUNG, Cynthia (Ph.D., Yale University, 1999) University of Southern California, Cultural theory; US radical culture; Black diaspora culture; comparative urban ethnic literatures & cultures

YOUNG, Gerald L. (PhD, Indiana Univ.) Washington State University Professor of Biology and Environmental Science in Regional Planning; environmental and human life, human ecology

YOUNG, M. Jane (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1982) University of New Mexico Associate Professor of American Studies; folklore, material culture, gender studies

YÚDICE, George (PhD, Princeton Univ., 1977) New York University Professor of American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese; transnational politics and culture, globalization, civil society, social movements, Latin American intellectual and literary culture, the avant-guardes in a global context, comparative study of race and ethnicity

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ZEFF, Jacqueline (PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1972) University of Michigan, Flint Professor of English; American women writers, ethnic literature, American immigrant literature

ZENDERLAND, Leila (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1986) California State University, Fullerton Professor of American Studies; history of social sciences, popular culture, culture of the South

ZENTELLA, Ana Cella (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1981) Univ. of California, San Diego, Anthropolitical linguistics, US Latino varieties of Spanish and English, bilingualism, Spanglish, and English-only laws, language diversity and language rights

ZIMMERMAN, Mary K. (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) University of Kansas Associate Professor of Health Services Administration and Sociology; gender, medical sociology, methodology

ZIPES, Jack (PhD, Columbia Univ., 1965) University of Minnesota Professor of English; American literature

ZITA, Jacqueline (PhD, Washington Univ., 1982) University of Minnesota Associate Professor of Philosophy; feminine philosophy

ZURIER, Rebecca (PhD, Yale Univ., 1988) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Assistant Professor of the History of Art; American art and architecture from colonial times to the present, art and the mass media, American culture at the turn of the 20th century, realism and representation, urban culture

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