2011-12 General Catalog

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Program Description | Course Descriptions

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Faculty and Professional Interests

Michael H. Cowan, Professor Emeritus, American Studies

John Dizikes, Professor Emeritus, American Studies 

Amy Lonetree, Associate Professor, American Studies

Indigenous history, museum studies, memory and American history, Native American cultural production, public history, and Ho-Chunk tribal history

Eric C. Porter, Professor, American Studies

Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies

Judith Yung, Professor Emerita, American Studies

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David H. Anthony, Associate Professor, History

African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema; eastern and southern Africa; African languages; Indian Ocean world; African and African American linkages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history

Gabriela Arredondo, Associate Professor Latin American and Latino Studies

African Latina/o studies; U.S. immigration history; U.S. social and cultural history; Chicana/o history; critical race and ethnicity theories; Chicana and Mexicana feminism; "borderlands" studies; history of modern Mexico

Martin Berger,Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture

American studies and visual studies; construction of gender and race

Michael K. Brown, Professor, Politics

Inequality, race and African American politics, political economy, political development of welfare states, theories and methods of historical social science

David T. Brundage, Professor, History

American working-class and immigration history, history of U.S. social movements, Irish history and politics

George Bunch, Assistant Professor, Education

Language and education in linguistically diverse settings, preparation of teachers for linguistically diverse, language policy, and bilingualism

Benjamin Carson, Associate Professor, Music

Theory and composition; music perception; empiricism and subjectivity; Schoenberg; popular music; improvisation

Pedro G. Castillo, Associate Professor, History

Chicano/a history and culture; American social and urban history; race, class, and gender in California history, immigration history, Latina/os in the U.S.

Gina Dent, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies

Africana literary and cultural studies, legal theory, popular culture

Barbara L. Epstein, Professor, History of Consciousness

Social movements and theories of social movements, 20th-century U.S. politics and culture, Marxism and related theories of social change

Rosa-Linda Fregoso, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies

Cultural studies, feminist studies, film and visual culture, human-rights studies, and gender-based violence

Susan Gillman, Professor, American Literature

Nineteenth-century American literature and culture; theories of culture, race, and gender; world literature and cultural studies

Herman S. Gray, Professor, Sociology

Cultural studies, media and television studies, black cultural politics, social theory

Miriam Greenberg, Assistant Professor, Sociology

Media studies, cultural studies, globalization, political and cultural economies of global cities, video production, and ethnography

Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Professor, Literature

Transnational Americas studies; Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures; 19th-century U.S. and Latin American literature; poetry; history of the book; reading and literacy; bilingualism

Lisbeth Haas, Associate Professor, History

U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Chicano and Native American history; visual culture in the colonial Americas; the U.S. West and California; historical memory, theory, and historical methodology

Judith A. Habicht Mauche, Professor, Anthropology

Precontact and early contact North American cross-cultural interaction and trade; ceramic technology; archaeology of gender, power, and identity; Southwest and Southern Plains

Susan F. Harding, Professor, Anthropology

Culture, politics, narrative, gender, local/global studies, ethnographic writing, fundamentalism, Christianity, state-making, aging, America, and Spain

Kimberly J. Lau, Professor Literature; Provost Oakes College

Feminism, discourse, and power; feminist theory; discourse, analysis, and ethographic methods; folklore and narrative; globalization

Olga Najera-Ramirez, Professor, Anthropology

Folklore theory, ritual, festival, dance, greater Mexican culture, history and folklore, transnationalism, identity; expressive culture, ethnomusicology, bilingual communication, gender, history, and culture of Latin America, the U.S., and Mexico

Marcia Ochoa, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies

Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, geography, multimedia production, graphic design, colonialism and modernity, Latin American studies—Colombia and Venezuela

Triloki Nath Pandey, Professor, Anthropology

Native peoples of North America, cultures of India, political anthropology, anthropological theories and comparisons; native North America; tribal India; Nepal

Mary Beth Pudup, Associate Professor, Community Studies

Regional studies, economic justice, public policy, historical geography of the U.S.

Catherine S. Ramirez, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies

Chicana and U.S. Latino literature, culture, and history; gender studies and feminist theory; visual culture and style politics; cultural studies; popular and urban youth cultures; speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Chicanafuturism; science, technology, race, and gender; theories and methods of American studies

Renya K. Ramirez, Associate Professor, American Studies

Native American studies, Indian identity, Native Americans and anthropology, urban Indians, Native American women, cultural citizenship, expressive culture, and anti-racist education

Forrest G. Robinson, Professor, Humanities

Nineteenth- and 20th-century American literature, including Mark Twain, the American West, and popular culture; biography and American culture theory

Shelley Stamp, Professor,Film and Digital Media

Film history, theory, and criticism; silent cinema; women's filmmaking; film censorship; histories of moviegoing; feminist approaches to cinema

Dana Takagi, Professor, Sociology

Social inequality and identity, research methods, race relations, nationalism and social movements

Marilyn J. Westerkamp, Professor, History

British colonial and revolutionary America, early modern cultural and religious history, U.S. religious history, women's history, gender

Daniel J. Wirls, Professor, Politics

American politics, including national political institutions (Congress) and the President; public policy (military and foreign policy) and political history

Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Medical anthropology; science studies; actor-network theory; American studies; popular culture, media studies, history of medicine and public health

Alice S. Yang-Murray, Associate Professor, History

Historical memory, Asian American history, gender history, race and ethnicity, 20th-century U.S., oral history

Patricia J. Zavella, Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies

Chicana/o-Latina/o studies, women's work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital

Revised: 8/13/12