American Studies Faculty Teaching AMS Core Courses, 2007-08
 Andrew Smith
Assistant Professor of English and Chair of American Studies (Fall 2006). Ph.D., University of New Mexico. Teaching and research interests: 19th-century American literature and culture, visual culture, documentary film, the history of photography, Native American literature, environmental writing. |
Courses
AMS 150: Introduction to American Studies
AMS 362: Inventing America
AMS 362: American Renaissance
AMS 362: Censorship in American Culture
AMS 362: Photography in American Culture
AMS 362: Nature in American Culture
AMS 362: Native American Literature and Culture
ENG 240: Introduction to Film
ENG 340: Documentary Film |
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 Steven Belletto (website)
Assistant Professor of English. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Teaching and research interests: 20th-century American literature and culture, Vladimir Nabokov, Cold War literature and Culture. |
Courses
AMS 362: Beat Generation in American Culture
ENG 212: American Lit and its Backgrounds
ENG 329: American Decades—The 1950s |
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 Howard Bodenhorn (website)
Professor of Economics and Business. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching and research interests: economic history, law and economics. |
Courses
AMS 362: Economic History of the United States
AMS 363: Senior Research Seminar |
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 Donald L. Miller (website)
John Henry MacCracken Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Maryland. Teaching and research interests: 20th century United States history, urban history, and World War II. |
Courses
AMS 352: The Story of World War II |
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Donald C. Jackson
Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching and research interests: history of technology, United States history, industrial archaeology, material culture, and public history. |
Courses
AMS 150: Introduction to American Studies
AMS 362: America, a Hydraulic Society
AMS 363: Senior Research Seminar
HIST 215: History of Technology
HIST 252: Transformation of Am Environment |
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 Caroline Lee (website)
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Ph.D., University of California, San Diego. Teaching and research interests: law and society, contemporary history, and American Politics. |
Courses
AMS 150: Introduction to American Studies
A&S 210: Contemporary American Society |
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 Christopher Phillips
Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Stanford. Teaching and research interests: American literature to 1800, law and literature, transatlantic cultures 1700-1800, history of the book, religion and literature, history and theory of epic literature. |
Courses
AMS 362: The American Revolution
AMS 362: American Renaissance
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 Elizabeth Rosen
Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University College London. M.F.A., New Orleans. Teaching and research interests: 20th-century American literature and film, particularly contemporary and postmodern; popular cultural studies. |
Courses
AMS 150: Introduction to American Studies |
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 David Shulman
Associate Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Northwestern University. Teaching and research interests: deception, symbolic interaction, organizations, deviance. David Shulman’s research interests are in deception and impression management in the workplace. |
Courses
AMS 363: Senior Research Seminar |
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 Karina Skvirsky
Assistant Professor of Art. M.F.A. (Photography), Indiana University; B.A. (Spanish literature), Oberlin College. Teaching and research interests: History of Photography, Landscape and Memory. She has taught at the International Center for Photography and the Parsons School of Design, both in New York City. |
Courses
AMS 362: Photography and Memory in Am Culture |
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Bryan Washington
Associate Professor of English. Ph.D., Harvard. Teaching and research interests: American literature, black literature, Henry James, James Baldwin, and narrative theory. |
Courses
AMS 362: American Decades: The 1920s
AMS 362: American Decades: The 1960s |
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Affiliated American Studies Faculty, 2007-08
Susan Averett, Professor of Economics and Business and Department Head, Economics and Business. Teaching and research interests: Economic Demography, Labor Economics, Health Economics, Birth Order.
Howard Bodenhorn, (website), Professor of Economics and Business. Ph.D., Rutgers University. Teaching and research interests: economic history, law and economics.
Bianca Falbo, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the College Writing Program. Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Teaching and research interests: Composition, pedagogy, late-18th through 19th-century Anglo-American literary culture, history of the book, textual criticism.
Curlee Raven Holton, Professor of Art and Art Department Head; Director, Experimental Printmaking Institute. M.F.A., Kent State University. Teaching and research interests: African American art history, printmaking, drawing, and painting.
David Johnson, Professor of English and Associate Provost, Chair of American Studies (Spring 2007). Ph.D., Pennsylvania State. Teaching and research interests: American literature and culture, Ernest Hemingway, Conrad Richter.
Rebecca Kissane, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Teaching and research interests: poverty, urban sociology, the family, and the welfare state.
Robert Mattison, Marshall R. Metzgar Professor of Art. Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching and research interests: contemporary American art; 19th-century drawing, painting, architecture, and sculpture.
Joshua Miller, (Home Page), Professor of Government and Law. Ph.D., Princeton University. Teaching and research interests: political theory particularly within its American context, relationship of fashion and beauty to democracy.
Donald Miller, John Henry MacCracken Professor of History. Ph.D., University of Maryland. Teaching and research interests: 20th-century United States history, urban history, World War II.
Deborah Rosen, Professor of History and History Department Head. Ph.D., Columbia University. Teaching and research interests: Colonial America, revolutionary America, early national period, legal history, women's history, race and ethnicity, and history of American Indians.
David Shulman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology. Ph.D., Northwestern University. Teaching and research interests: complex organizations, deviant behavior, deception, marketing, and consumer research.
George Torres, Associate Professor of Music. Ph.D., Cornell University. Teaching and research interests: 17th-century French lute performance, Latin American bolero romántico, and Latin American big band music, Film Music.
Bryan Washington, Associate Professor of English. Ph.D., Harvard. Teaching and research interests: American literature, black literature, Henry James, James Baldwin, and narrative theory.
Walter "Skip" Wilkins, Assistant Professor of Music. M.M., University of Northern Colorado. Performing, recording, and touring jazz pianist. Special Interests: music theory, jazz history, Solfeggio.
American Studies Advisory Committee, 2007-08
Howard Bodenhorn
David Johnson
Caroline Lee
Arnold Offner
Karina Skvirsky
Andy Smith, chair
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