American Studies Affiliated Faculty
| African and African American Studies Department |
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| Bentley Anderson, SJ Race and religion in the Southern United States and South Africa in the post-World War II period. |
| Aimee M. Cox Youth culture; arts in social change; embodied healing practices, collective identity, and community transformations in New York City; race and embodiment |
| Mark D. Naison African American politics, labor history, popular culture and education policy |
| Art History and Music Department |
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| Kathryn Heleniak 19th & 20th Centuries, European and American Art |
| Jo Anna Isaak Modernism, Contemporary Art, Critical Theory, Curatorial Practices and Environmental Studies |
| Larry Stempel 19th- & 20th-century music |
| Communication and Media Studies Department |
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| Robin Andersen Media influence public opinion and social policy, including the links between advertising persuasions, consumer culture and environmental issues and policies |
| Amy Aronson Gender, women's magazines |
| Albert Auster History of film & television, film criticism |
| Jennifer S. Clark Media studies |
| Arthur Hayes Ethnic media ownership, journalism ethics, the history, theory and practice of press criticism and press critics, First Amendment doctrine and theory, democratic discourse theory, and the intersection of mass media law and mass media technologies |
| Gwenyth Jackaway Media and society; media stereotypes of individuals with neurological differences |
| Alice E. Marwick Social media, internet studies and new media theory, information policy, privacy and surveillance, feminist media studies, youth studies, consumer culture, celebrity, online identity and self-presentation |
| Thomas McCourt History of media, communication technology, music and cultural studies, with particular focus on the relationship of technology to the public sphere |
| English Department |
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| Edward Cahill Early American literature, culture, and intellectual history; transatlantic eighteenth-century literature; aesthetic theory; material culture; queer studies |
| Mark Caldwell Early modern literature; literature and science; American cultural history |
| Lenny Cassuto American literature and culture; nineteenth-century African American literature; disability studies; creative writing |
| Daniel Contreras Latino and American literature, postmodern theory, film studies |
| Maria Farland Early American; modern American; literary & cultural theory |
| Beth Frost Modern American; literary & cultural Theory; contemporary; creative writing |
| Glenn Hendler Nineteenth-century American literature; cultural studies; critical theory |
| James Kim Asian American literature and culture; eighteenth-century British literature and culture |
| Julie Kim Eighteenth-century British studies; early American studies; the Atlantic world; colonialism, empire, and science; food studies |
| Rebecca Sanchez Transatlantic modernism, disability studies, and poetics |
| Elizabeth Stone Creative non-fiction; twentieth-century American autobiography and memoir; journalism |
| Dennis Tyler African American literature; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American literature; disability studies; critical race theory; cultural studies |
| History Department |
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| Christopher Dietrich 18th to 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations, International History, Intellectual History, Political History. |
| Barry Goldberg Late 19th and 20th century social history; history of labor; race and ethnicity. |
| Kirsten N. Swinth U.S. since 1945; U.S. gender history and history of sexuality., U.S. cultural and social history; American Studies; history of visual culture |
| Modern Languages and Literatures Department |
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| Arnaldo Cruz-Malave Hispanic Caribbean Literature, New York in Latino Literature, Gender and Sexuality in Latin American and U.S. Latin Literatures, Latin American Neobaroque |
| Philosophy Department |
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| Judith Green American Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Feminism |
| Judith Jones American Philosophy, Process Philosophy |
| Political Science Department |
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| Jonathan Crystal *International political economy, economic globalization, politics of international trade and investment |
| Tom DeLuca American politics, democratic theory and practice, and civil and political rights |
| Christina Greer American politics, black ethnic politics, urban politics, quantitative methods, and public opinion |
| Robert Hume Constitutional law and judicial policy development, with particular emphasis on the impact of court decisions |
| Sociology and Anthropology Department |
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| Ayala Fader Religion, Anthropology of Judaism, Language and Culture, Gender, Childhood, Media |
| Jeanne Flavin Criminal justice; reproductive justice; feminist criminology |
| Heather Gautney Social movements, political sociology and public policy, social and political inequality, globalization, political and social theory, labor and workforce development |
| E. Doyle McCarthy Sociology of knowledge and culture and in the interdisciplinary field of emotion studies |
| Micki McGee Sociological theory, sociology of culture; academic labor in the digital age; disability studies |
| Chris Rhomberg Urban and political sociology, race and ethnicity, labor and labor movements, and historical methods |
| Clara Rodriguez Race/ethnicity, media, Latinos/as sociology |
| Emily Rosenbaum Urban demography, inequality, immigration, housing policy, family/household demography |
| Theology Department |
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| Christiana Zenner Fresh waters, religious ethics, and ecological theories |
| Kathryn Reklis Modern Protestant theology (18th century to the present); Modernity/postmodernity and religion; Aesthetics; Cultural criticism; Religion/theology in the digital age; Theology, religious practice, and popular culture |
| John Seitz History of modern Christianity, American religions, Catholic Studies, and method and theory in the study of religion |
| *currently serving as Associate Vice President & Associate Chief Academic Officer |