Chair/Director: Richard Aquila

Degrees Awarded: Minor in American Studies

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: In-state $1,435; out-of-state $3,675

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 3/1 (Fall), 12/1 (Spring)

Financial Aid: American Studies Internship (research assistantship); scholarships, grants, loans, student employment

Affiliations and Internships: Center for "Middletown" Studies, Internships in American Studies, state-of-the-art telecommunications building provides opportunity for students to gain media experience

Program Specializations: popular culture, Native American studies, radio/TV/film, Middletown studies

The American Studies minor enables students to understand and appreciate the interrelationship of all aspects of American culture. The interdepartmental program consists of courses dealing with American history, literature, life, and thought. It focuses on cultural diversity and social groups in American history. Using interdisciplinary approaches that cut across traditional academic boundaries, students will be better prepared to study American life and thought. They will gain knowledge of social and intellectual history and an understanding of American literature, beliefs, customs, art, and patterns of behavior. The American Studies minor, with its focus on American life and thought, offers students a unique view of the nation's social fabric and history. The minor requires 24 credit hours.

American Studies Faculty

The Ball State American Studies Program is administered by Richard Aquila. The other faculty are drawn from a variety of departments and programs on campus including history, English, economics, anthropology, landscape architecture, political science, sociology, and telecommunications, among others.

AQUILA, Richard (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1977) Professor of History; U.S. social history, popular culture, Native Americans.
 

Chair/Director: Kathryn Jay

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition : $24,090

Deadline: 1/1

Financial Aid: scholarships, loans, grants, student employment

Enrollment (2001-2002): 13 majors

The American Studies Program originated in 1939. The American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary
major for students who want to study the society and culture(s) of the United States by focusing on a central
subject, theme, or set of questions. In consultation with the program director, each student chooses an adviser to
define a thematic concentration within the major.

American Studies Faculty

BALMER, Randall (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Professor of Religion; religion and American culture

CARNES, Mark (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of History; modern American social and gender history

GORDIS, Lisa (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Assistant Professor of English; literature

JAY, Kathryn (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor of History; culture, sports, religion

KASSANOFF, Jennie A. (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; literature

MacADAM, Alfred (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Professor of Spanish; Latin American Literature

McCAUGHEY, Robert A. (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor of History; intellectual, maritime history

MILLER, Monica (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor of History; intellectual, maritime history

RIEDER, Jonathan (PhD, Yale Univ.) Professor of Sociology; sociology, race, and ethnicity

ROSENBERG, Rosalind (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Professor of History; legal, women's history

ROTHSCHILD, Nan (PhD, New York Univ.) Professor of Anthropology; archeology, anthropology

SHARPE, William (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Associate Professor of English; literature

WEIMAN, Davis (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Professor of Economics; economic history
 

Chair/Director: Donald E. Greco

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate $15,700 per academic year; graduate $794 per semester hour

Deadlines: Flexible; February 15 for financial aid in graduate program

Financial Aid: Graduate assistantships, fellowships; undergraduate scholarships, loans, grants, work study

Affiliations and Internships: The Emmy Parrish Lectures in American Studies expose students to visiting scholars and lecturers.  University of Hull exchange program provides an opportunity for students to study in Britain for an academic semester or year

The Program in American Studies at Baylor offers a comprehensive knowledge of American institutions and culture and prepares the student for the world of practical affairs. The basic undergraduate program consists of courses in a variety of study areas, which the student may combine, according to his/her cultural or professional objectives, with a selection of courses from American Studies and other departments. A major in American Studies requires 36 semester hours, including 15 hours in American history and literature and a sequence of courses from several other disciplines. The minor consists of 18 semester hours, at least nine of which must be in upper level courses. The graduate program is an interdisciplinary program offering comprehensive study in American institutions and culture. The basic program consists of courses in American history, literature and political science. The MA requires 30 hours of course work, at least 15 of which must be in courses numbered above 5000. The fields our graduates find employment in are various--from academia to law and judgeships to business executives to government service. These are only a few of the places where our former students are employed.

American Studies Faculty

The American Studies Program at Baylor University is an interdepartmental program drawing extensively on the faculty and courses of a variety of departments on campus.
 

Chair/Director: Jeff Cofer

Degrees Awarded: AA

Academic System: Quarter

Tuition: Instate $540 per quarter, out-of-state $2,090 per quarter

Deadlines: First come, first served until enrollment cap is reached

Financial Aid: Federal Pell Grants, Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity, Washington State Need, Federal and State Work Study, Stafford Loans, scholarships

Program Specializations: popular culture, film, literature, humanities, social sciences

The American Studies Department calls on the rich curricular offerings of various departments at Bellevue, including humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and synthesizes the knowledge derived from each. A pre-major in American Studies may interest those seeking a liberal arts education with breadth, as well as depth. The goals of the program are to synthesize several disciplines to gain insight into a central theme or idea in US culture, and to develop analytical and communication skills for assessing how basic cultural values and attitudes are shared among generations and societies of national and world communities. A pre-major in American Studies, in addition to regular core major requirements, must take 15-30 credits in American Studies electives.

American Studies Faculty

Note: Institution designates all faculty as instructors

BALOWIA, Rebecca (MA, Univ. of Washington) History of American economics

BARBAS, Samantha (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Media, film, American history

COFER, Jeff (Chair) (MA, Ohio Univ.) American literature, film, popular culture, Jazz studies

DOYLE, Tammi (MFA, Univ. of Washington) drama, history

GEORGE, Roger (PhD, Univ. of Washington) popular culture, film

IREY, Sayumi (MLS, Univ of Washington) Asian Studies, Library Science

JURJI, David (PhD, Univ. of Washington) anthropology of American life, cultural history

KOTKER, Joan (MA, Ohio State Univ., 1974) popular literature

MEEK, Donna (MA, Ohio State Univ., 1978)  American literature, women's studies

MEYER, Michael (MA Marquette Univ.) cultural studies, literature

NORRIS, Rossie (M.Ed., Univ. of Washington, 1972) cultural studies

PERRY, Thornton (MA, Ohio State Univ., 1969) American history, sports and leisure

POLLOCK, Kim (MA, Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, 1983) cultural history, women's studies, African-American literature

PURSER, Robert S. (PhD, Univ. of Oregon, 1976) American art and architecture

SEEMAN, Julie (MA, Univ. of Washington) women's studies, creative writing

WESTON, Terry (MA, Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management) cultural studies, foreign languages

WULFF, Jon (MA, Ohio State Univ.) philosophy

YABUI, Alan (EdD, Montana State Univ., 1993) cultural studies, communications
 

Chair/Director: Carlo Rotella

Degrees Awarded: BA (Minor)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $24,050 per year;

Deadlines: Admissions 1/10; financial aid 3/1

Enrollment (1997-2000): 44 minors

Affiliations and Internships: The Nijmegen Exchange Program

Program Specializations: Literary and cultural studies, social history, women's history, ethnic studies, urban studies, speical concentration in Aisan-American studies

The American Studies minor allows students to take courses centering on American culture in a variety of departments and fields, including English, history, sociology, fine arts, film, political science, psychology, and theater, as well as cross-listed courses in other interdisciplinary minors (e.g. Women's Studies and Black Studies). Studens minoring in American Studies design their own theme of concentration in consultation with the diredctor of the program. each minoring student takes five thematically linked coures and, inthe fall semester of the seinor year, the Americn Studies Senior Seminar. Th eminor is open to all undergraduates at Boston College regardless of school.

American Studies Faculty

BALDWIN, Davarian (PhD, New York Univ.) Assistant Professor of History, 20th century American and African American intellecutal and cultural history; social and political theory, urban studies

BLACKWELL, Henry (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Professor of English; African American literature and culture, 19th and 20th century African American prose, non-fiction, and criticism; theories of race

BLAKE, Richard (PhD, Northwestern) Professor of Fine Arts; American film history; American directors, Girffith to DePalma

BUNI, Andrew (PhD, Univ. of Virginia) Professor of History; ethnicity/immigration, Boston history, Southern history, race relations

CASPER, Leonard (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) Professor of English; American drama, American women writers, postmodernism, Philippine literature

FEIMSTER, Crystal (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; Caribbean literature and culture, African American literature and culture (particularly African American women's literature), American literature and culture

FREDERICK, Rhonda D. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Assistant Professor of English; Caribbean literature and culture, African American literature and culture (particularly African American women's literature), American literature and culture

GREEN, Carol Hurd (PhD, George Washington Univ.) Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; American poetry, women's writing

HECHT, Stuart (PhD, Northwestern Univ.) Professor of Theater Arts; arts and American society, history of theater

HOUCHIN, John (MFA and PhD, New York Univ.) Assistant Professor in Theater History

HOWE, Jeffrey (PhD, Northwestern Univ.) Professor of Fine Arts; American architecture, modern art, symbolist art and literature

JACOBS, Seth (PhD, Northwestern Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; 20th century United States, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S.-Asian relations

JOHNSON, Lynn (PhD, New York Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; US urban, social, and labor history

KENNY, Kevin (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Associate Professor of History; the American Irish, U.S. immigration and labor, modern Ireland

KERN, Robert (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor of English; modern American poetry, American orientalism of violence

LAWSON, Alan (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Professor of History; intellectual history, American education, the New Deal

LEVENTMAN, Seymour (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) Professor of Sociology; race and ethnicity, crime and deviance, Vietnam veterans

LEWIS, Paul Lewis (PhD, Univ. of New Hampshire) Professor of English; early American fiction and nonfiction; Poe and the Gothic; American humor

LIEM, G. Ramsey (PhD, Univ. of Rochester) Professor of Psychology; Asian American experience, ethic identity and the self

LYERLY, Cynthia Lynn (PhD, Rice Univ.) Professor of History; history of American women and gender, history of the old South, slavery and abolition

MARIANI, Paul (PhD, Graduate Center of the City Univ. of New York) Professor of English; twentieth-century American and British poetry, biography, religion and literature, and creative writing

MATHIEU, Paula (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) Assistant Professor of English; composition and rhetoric, cultural studies, public cultures, technology and writing, homelessness

MILLER, Karen (PhD, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara) Professor of History; Afro-American history, women's studies

O'HAR, George (PhD, M.I.T.) Lectuerer in English; literature and technology, creative writing

O'TOOLE, James (PhD, Boston College) Associate Professor of History; American religion; American Catholic history; archives and manuscripts

PETILLO, Carol (PhD, Rutgers Univ.) Professor of History; American foreign policy, psychohistory, biography

QUIGLEY, David (PhD, New York Univ.) Associate Professor of History; American urban and political history, Civil War and Reconstruction, American history in international perspective

ROTELLA, Carlo (PhD, Yale Univ.) Associate Professor of English; American literature and culture of the 20th century; urban literature, culture, and design; film; creative nonfiction writing

SCHRADER, Richard (PhD, Ohio State Univ.) Professor of English; literature and culture in the 1920s

SONG, Min (PhD, Tufts Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; Asian American studies, American literature and culture, cultural studies

TANNER, Laura (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Professor of English; modern American literature, African American literature, representations of violence

WALLACE, James (PhD, Columbia Univ.) Professor of English; American literature to 1870, modern and contemporary American literature, the novel

WILSON, Christopher (PhD, Yale Univ.) Professor of English; American literary politics, American journalism, consumer culture

Chair/Director: Marilyn Halter

Degrees Awarded: BA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate and graduate $31,530 per semester

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 1/15

Financial Aid: Presidential University Graduate and Teaching Fellowships, graduate assistantships and scholarships, teaching fellowships, museum internships. Not all students admitted receive financial aid.

Affiliations and Internships: Available based on external grants

Program Specializations: art history/material culture, literature, history, and other areas as approved by faculty

The American and New England Studies Program at Boston University is a national center for the study of American cultural forms and practices. Courses are cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural, including American arts, decorative arts, history, literature, material culture, anthropology, archaeology, theology and law. The curriculum is founded on the principle that each student should construct his or her own program, while also completing two required core seminars in the first year. Students can choose regular courses from fields across the university or can take individualized directed study. Faculty and students work together closely. There is a strong sense of community among students, and a significant record of achievement among graduates in publication, teaching, and public history, including positions as curators and directors of historical and art agencies.

Numerous archival resources are available in the Boston area including the Boston Public Library, Massachusetts State Archives, Schlesinger Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Museum of Our National Heritage, Museum of American Textile History, Essex and Peabody Institutes, Boston Athenaeum and others.

American Studies Faculty

The American and New England Studies Program draws extensively on the faculty and courses of a variety of departments and programs at the university. Core members of the faculty are listed below.

BLAKELY, Allison (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) Professor of history and African American studies; the Black Diaspora, comparative history

BLASZCZYK, Reggie (PhD, Univ. of Delaware) Assistant Professor of History & American Studies; American material culture, history of business

CANDEE, Richard M. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1976) Professor; American architecture, historic preservation, vernacular architecture

DEMPSEY, Claire (MA, Boston Univ.) Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Studies; vernacular architecture, historic preservation

FINBURY, Elaine (MA, Boston Univ.) Adjunct Assistant Professor; adaptive use and historic preservation

HALTER, Marilyn (PhD, Boston Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; immigration history, American social and women's history

HILLS, Patricia (PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univ.) Professor of Art History; American painting, visual culture

KLANCHER, Jon (PhD, UCLA) Associate Professor of English; literary theory

KOROBKIN, Laura (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; 19th Century American literature, especially American fiction, the genre of sentimentality, relations of narrative to law

LEPORE, Jill (PhD, Yale Univ.) Assistant Professor of History; Early American History

MATTHEWS, John T. (PhD, Johns Hopkins University) Professor of English; 19th and 20th century American fiction, Southern literature and culture, modernism, literary theory

MIZRUCHI, Susan (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Associate Professor of English; 19th-century American literature, feminist theory

MORGAN, Keith (PhD, Brown Univ.) Associate Professor of Art History; architectural history, landscape history, preservation studies

PROTHERO, Stephen (PhD, Harvard) Associate Professor of Religion; Eastern religions in America, American Christology

SEWALL, Jessica (PhD, University of Calfornia, Berkeley) Assistant Professor of American Studies and Art History; American material culture, urbanism, architectural history, cultural landscapes, and gender theory.

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

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

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

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

ZELIZER, Julian (PhD, Johns Hopkins) Professor of History; taxation, American Political Development, twentieth century US history.

Director: Ronald K. Richardson

Degrees Awarded: Minor

The minor concentration in African American Studies is for those students who, though concentrating in other disciplines, desire a knowledge of the African American experience in sociology, history, the humanities, and psychology.  The required courses provide the background necessary for undergraduates in general, as well as for pre professionals, to appreciate the main foci and people who have created the experience of African Americans in the United States.  Minors should develop their program in consultation with the director of African American Studies.

African American Studies Faculty

BREINER, Laurence A; Associate Professor of English

CROMWELL, Adelaide M;  Professor Emerita of African American Studies

RICHARDSON, Ronald K.; Associate Professor of History and Director of African American Studies

TEELE, James E; Professor of Sociology

WAITE, Kim; Visiting Professor
 

Chair/Director: Donald McQuarie

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Instate undergraduate $284 per credit hour, out-of-state $582 per credit hour. In-state graduate $5,404 per semester, out-of-state $9,058

Deadlines: Admissions, no deadline--admission decisions made beginning February 1; financial aid, no deadline--funding decisions made beginning February 1

Financial Aid: Graduate teaching/research assistantships. Appointments for academic year. PhD stipends $10,740 plus fee and tuition waiver. MA stipends $7,635 plus fee and tuition waiver

Enrollment (2001-2001): 15 undergraduates; 22 MA students; 45 PhD Students

Admission Requirements: Applicants for the PhD are expected to have earned an MA degree in an appropriate subject area, to have a superior academic record at both the undergraduate and master's degree levels, and to meet minimum academic and other admission requirements established by the Graduate College

Affiliations and Internships: The Center for Archival Collections provides extensive resources for regional research; the Great Lakes Research Center supports opportunities for research in maritime history; and the Rutherford B. Hayes Museum and Library contains a collection of presidential papers and sources for the study of 19th-century America. In addition, the Popular Culture Library and the Popular Music Library contain extensive collections of film, video, and audio materials

Program Specializations: Two PhD academic tracks: Popular Culture, Folklore, and Media; Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Identity

The newly reorganized PhD program in American Culture Studies is an innovative degree program comprising an intellectual community of several academic programs and departments. It features two newly configured interdisciplinary academic tracks from which student choose their major concentration: (1) Popular Culture, Folklore, and Media; and (2) Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Identity. These major concentrations are focused on the academic strengths of the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Popular Culture Department and the Women's Studies Program at Bowling Green State University and reflect a new collaborative arrangement between these three academic units and the American Culture Studies PhD program. The American Culture Studies PhD program also draws on faculty from the following departments and graduate programs: Communication Studies, English, History, philosophy, Sociology, Theater and Telecommunications. Flexible as to both methods and goals, the PhD in American Culture Studies can meet the diverse needs of a variety of students who seek advanced graduate study as preparation for careers in a variety of academic fields, museums, cultural and historical organizations, or similar institutions requiring both breadth and depth of understanding of American culture in its national and diasporic contexts.

The interdisciplinary MA program in American Culture Studies is designed around the concept of culture, which serves to unify study of the many discrete aspects of our historical, social, intellectual, and artistic heritage. Required courses in History, and Methods and Theories of American Culture Studies stress appropriate theories of culture study while other American Culture Studies offerings explore particular themes, issues, and periods from an interdisciplinary perspective. This program offers a foundation in the study of American culture for students with a variety of interests and goals.

American Culture Studies Joint Appointments

BERRY, Ellen, Department of English; Contemporary critical theory/20th Century Culture Studies (especially feminist theory, theories of the avant garde, theories of modernism and postmodernism, transcultural studies, postcommunist studies); 20th Century Women Writers (especially experimental forms of writing; Narrative Literature (including modern and contemporary fiction, narrative theory, history of the novel).

COATES, Kim, Department of American Culture Studies; nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century American and British literature, in addition to feminism, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.

LUIBHEID, Eithne, Department of Ethnic Studies; global immigration, immigration and race, sexuality, feminist studies

MARTIN, Scott, Department of History (US Social and Cultural History [esp. 19th century]; History of Leisure; Gender; Temperance; Historiography; smartin@bgnet.bgsu.edu

McQUARIE, Donald, Department of Sociology; social theory (esp. Neo-Marxism), state and politics, intellectual history, socialism in America, sociology of culture, American political culture dmcquar@bgnet.bgsu.edu

OSMAURE, Halifu, Department of Dance; Cultural Studies and African Americans Studies, with an emphasis on how African American performance has historically utilized resistance, complicity, and play in relation to structures of power.

PATRAKA, Vivian, Director, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society (20th-Century American Theater and Performance; Feminist Studies [in relation to theater and visual art]; Performance Studies [theater and public spectacle with a focus on fascism; genocide, public discourse, and museums])
vpatrak@bgnet.bgsu.edu

STAUB, Michael, Department of English (20th Century American Literary and Cultural History; Critical Race Studies; American Documentary and Ethnographic Expression, including Films; 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; mstaub@bgnet.bgsu.edu

TERRIE, Philip, Department of English; American environmental literature, American culture studies, American fiction; pterrie@bgnet.bgsu.edu

WYLAM, Lisa, Department of Theatre; contemporary artistic and cultural performance, with particular attention to devised theatre and the creative work and social processes of long-term ensemble companies, as well as the political dynamics of intercultural collaboration in performance research.

Affiliated Faculty

ASHCRAFT-EASON, Lillian, Department of History; African American history and culture, Africans in the British North American Colonies lashcra@bgnet.bgsu.edu

AUSTIN, Joe, Department of Popular Culture; youth culture, post-1970 U.S. popular film, cultural studies/theory, rock and roll, everyday life (praxis), post-1945 U.S. social/urban history jaustin@bgnet.bgsu.edu

BARON, Cynthia, Department of Theater/Film Studies Program (Film performance, Feminist and multicultural studies of film; Cultural politics and media industry practice cbaron@bgnet.bgsu.edu

BEGUM, Khani, Department of English (Modern and Contemporary British and Continental Literature; Post-Colonial Literatures; Feminist Literatures) khani@bgnet.bgsu.edu

BROWN, Jeffrey A., Department of Popular Culture; film, genres, TV, gender studies, comic books, museum studies, human body, youth culture jabrown@bgnet.bgsu.edu

BUFF, Rachel, Department of History; immigration and migration, cultural theory, women's history, critical race/legal theory rbuff@bgnet.bgsu.edu

BUFFINGTON, Robert, Department of History (Mexican and Latin American History; Comparative Histories of Crime and Sexuality; Border Studies) robbuff@bgnet.bgsu.edu

CALLEN, Donald, Department of Philosophy; Lacanian film theory, contemporary French culture, political theory
dcallen@bgnet.bgsu.edu

DANZIGER, Edmund, Department of history; 19th-century America, U.S. and Canadian Indian Policies, American environmental history, Ohio history, Great Lake Indian history edanzig@bgnet.bgsu.edu

DIXON, Kathleen, Department of Philosophy (Medical Ethics; Feminist Medical Ethics; Philosophy of Death and Dying; History of Medicine; continental Philosophy) kmdixon@bgnet.bgsu.edu

GAJJALA, Radhika, Department of Interpersonal Communication (Media Studies; Gender and Technology; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Cultural Studies; International/Global Communication and Development; Interpersonal Communication) radhik@bgnet.bgsu.edu

GEIST, Christopher, Department of Popular Culture (Museology; Popular Television Aesthetics; Popular Television Genres; Folklore) cdgeist@bgnet.bgsu.edu

GIDLOW, Liette, Department of History; early 20th century U.S. political history and political culture, including issues of gender and citizenship gidlow@bgnet.bgsu.edu

GLANZ, Dawn, School of Art; public art in America, legal and ethical issues in American art, the culture wars
dglanz@bgnet.bgsu.edu

GONZALES, Alberto, Department of Interpersonal Communication; communication and culture, intercultural rhetoric, rhetoric and technology agonzal@bgnet.bgsu.edu

HESS, Gary, Department of History; American foreign relations, especially U.S. relations with Asia and the Third World ghess@bgnet.bgsu.edu

HOLMBERG, Carl, Department of Popular Culture (Horror Literature, Popular Culture of Sex, Japanese Popular Culture, Popular Culture and Mass Media, Popular Culture and the Environment) cholmbe@bgnet.bgsu.edu

LABBIE, Erin, Director, Great Ideas Program; Department of English (Medieval Studies; Cultural Discourses and Comparative Literature; Psychoanalysis and Marxism in Pre-Modern Texts) labbie@bgnet.bgsu.edu

LOCKFORD, Lesa, Department of theater (Performance Theory and Methods; Gender, Sexuality, and Performance; Women and Representation) lockford@earthlink.net

MAH, Theresa, Department of Ethnic Studies (Race, Class, and Housing in 20th Century; US Consumer Culture; Asian-American History and Racial Formation) tmah@bgnet.bgsu.edu

MAKAY, John, School of Communication Studies; political rhetoric, freedom of expression, rhetorical theory and criticism, leadership and communication jmakay@bgnet.bgsu.edu

MARTIN, Michael, Department of Ethnic Studies; race relations, film/media studies: "minoritarian" and Third World, sociology of development, documentary video production mtmart@bgnet.bgsu.edu

MORGAN-RUSSELL, Simon, Department of English (Seventeenth Century Drama; Early Modern Cultural Studies; M.M. Bakhtin) smorgan@bgnet.bgsu.edu

NELSON, Angela, Department of Popular Culture; African-American popular culture, American television and television situation comedies, American popular music (with particular attention to black) anelson@bgnet.bgsu.edu

NIEMAN, Donald, Department of History; 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 dnieman@bgnet.bgsu.edu

OSUMARE, Halifu, School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies (Modern Dance; Hip-Hop Music and Performance)

REN, Hai, Department of Popular Culture (Public Culture and Citizenship; Urban Life; Globalization; Museums and Theme Parks; China and the US) hren@bgnet.bgsu.edu

ROHY, Valerie, Department of English; American literature 1850-1950, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, psychoanalytic criticism vrohy@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SANTINO, Jack, Department of Popular Culture Studies (Folklore; Northern Irish Folk Customs; Popular Music of the 1950s; Popular Music of the 1960s; Holidays and Celebrations) jsantin@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SCHERER, Donald, Department of Philosophy; environmental discourse, American institutions
dschere@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SHIELD, Ronald, Director, Department of Theater (Performance Studies; Opera and Operatic Performance as Cultural Text) rshield@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SHIELDS, Peter, Department of Telecommunications; political economy of the media, critical approaches to policy and law, information-communication technologies and surveillance pshield@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SHIELDS, Vicki, Department of Telecommunications; 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 vshield@bgnet.bgsu.edu

SKINNER, Ewart, Department of Telecommunications; 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 eskinne@bgnet.bgsu.edu

ZONGO, Opportune, Acting Director, Women's Studies Program, Department of Romance Languages (Francophone and Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures) ozongo@bgnet.bgsu.edu

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Ethnic Studies
228 Shatzel Hall
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Phone: 419/372-2796
Fax: 419/372-0330
E-mail: krahrig@bgnet.bgsu.edu
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/ethn/

Chair: Michael Martin
Graduate Director: Theresa Mah

Degrees Awarded: BA, Ph.D.Certificate

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2001-2002): BA 18, Ph.D. Cert. 3

Tuition: Instate undergraduate $6,742, graduate $7,312; Out of state undergraduate $13,370, graduate $13, 564

Deadlines: Admissions 12/1, financial aid 1/15

Financial Aid Available: Grants, scholarships, employment, and loans

The undergraduate interdisciplinary major explores the socioeconomic and historical forces that have shaped the development of ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States. Focusing on immigration, slavery, and colonial conquest, among other social and historical processes that combined to create in the U.S. a nation of nations, ethnic studies examines population groups in their geopolitical and diasporan contexts, in their relationship to each other and within the formation of the U.S. as a global power.

Within the interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary framework, the graduate certificate curriculum contributes to societal needs and it addresses issues of racial and ethnic diversify in the workplace, community, nation, and world during a period of profound demographic change. It is designed to provide professional study in an area of increasing importance to practitioners in social, health, and immigration service agencies; law, and K-12 and community college education , among other occupations. The certificate also offers a graduate credential to students pursuing advanced degrees and seeking to broaden their teaching and research competencies in order to enhance their career options and employment prospects. Students may either enroll in the certificate program or they may complete the certificate in conjunction with a graduate degree at the university. Satisfactory completion of the requirements for the certificate will be noted on the student's transcript as "Graduate Certificate in Ethnic Studies."

Faculty

ANRADE, A. Ronaldo (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma)

LUIBHEID, Eithne (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Ethnic Studies with emphasis in women, gender and sexuality

MAH, Theresa J. (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) History

MARTIN, Michael T. (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts) Psychology

MENON, Sridevi (PhD, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa) Philosophy

MWAUWA, Apollos O. (PhD Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, N.S., Canada) African history

PENA, Susan (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) Sociology

PERTUSATI, Linda (PhD, Univ. of Michigan) Sociology and Social Work

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

Chair/Director: Jacob Cohen

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $26,281 plus fees ($3,285)

Deadlines: Admissions 2/1

Financial Aid: All types

Enrollment (2000-2001): 186 majors

An interdisciplinary approach to myriad cultures, institutions, and behavior of the peoples of the United States and to the questions raised by the influence of the United States in shaping the modern world, the American Studies major is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the history and major features of American societies. Students anticipating careers in law, business, public policy, media and communication, education, journalism, teaching, careers as professors of American Studies, history, and literature, have typically enrolled in the department. As a sponsor of programs in law, journalism, environmental studies and film studies, the department encourages students who seek active engagement with the contemporary world through firm grounding in a sound liberal arts education.

American Studies Faculty

ANTLER, Joyce (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook) Professor; US Jewish women's history, women's history, history of education

COHEN, Jacob (MA, Yale Univ.) Associate Professor; intellectual history, violence, sports

DAVIS, Mary E. (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; JD, Yale Law School) Adjunct Associate Professor of Law and Literature

DOHERTY, Thomas (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) Associate Professor; film, popular culture

DONAHUE, Brian (PhD, Brandeis Univ.) Assistant Professor of American Environmental Studies on the Jack Meyerhoff Foundations; environment issues, environmental history

FELT, Henry (BA, Goddard College) Lecturer in American Studies

FUCHS, Lawrence H. (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Professor; ethnicity and race, immigration, family

GASKINS, Richard (JD & PhD, Yale Univ.) Professor of American Studies and Director of Legal Studies Program

GOLDIN, Laura (JD, Cornell Univ.) Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

SOCOLOW, Michael (PhD, Georgetown Univ.) Assistant Professor of American Studies

WHITFIELD, Stephen J. (PhD, Brandeis Univ.) Professor; political and intellectual history, journalism

Chair/Director: Kerry Soper

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate Latter-day Saints $1,415 per semester, Undergraduate non-Latter-day Saints $2,125 per semester

Deadlines: Undergraduate admissions 2/15 (Fall), 10/1 (Spring), financial aid 3/1 and 10/1

Financial Aid: Scholarships, fellowships, assistantships

Enrollment (1998-1999): 60 undergraduate majors

Affiliations and Internships: David M. Kennedy Center for International and Area Studies has extensive contacts for internships

Program Specializations: American West, Film, Politics

American Studies examines the culture of the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.  In doing so, it attempts to accommodate the historical and contemporary reality of the United States as a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, multi-racial collective of people engaged in the self-conscious project of inventing a community.  The study of this culture can inform a historical and contemporary understanding of problems and opportunities that confront Americans as well as all people who face the problems and opportunities of making a community of the global community of the 21st century.

The purpose of American Studies in the IAS program is to examine various kinds of texts that document and express the culture of the United States within a global context.  The general project of the program is to enable students to examine this culture from an interdisciplinary perspective in order to better understand its international significance and role.  With the advice of the American Studies program director, students build their programs upon the required core courses by drawing from the disciplines of art, economics, English, geography, history, humanities, and political science.

American Studies Faculty

BASSETT, Arthur R. (PhD, Syracuse Univ., 1975)) Professor of Humanities; American literature and culture to 1900

CRACROFT, Richard H. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1970) Professor of English; Western American literature, 19th-century American literature

CLARK, Gregory (PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985) Professor of English; American literature and culture to 1900, American rhetorical style and practice

CUTLER, Edward (PhD, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1997) Assistant Professor of English; 19th century American literature and culture, modernism

D'ARC, James V. (PhD, Brigham Young, 1986) Associate Professor of Theater and Film; American film, archivist of BYU film collection

DAYNES, Gary (PhD, Univ. of Delaware, 1996)) Assistant Professor of History; public history, public memory

FOX, Frank W. (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1973) Professor of History; popular culture,

POPE,  C. Arden (PhD, Iowa State Univ., 1981) Professor of Economics; environmental economics

RUGH, Susan (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1993) Assistant Professor of History; rural America

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

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

Chair/Director: Mari Jo Buhle
Graduate Director: Robert Lee

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD (also Masters in Museum Studies)

Degrees Awarded 2001: 6 (D); 3 (M)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $32,264 per year

Deadlines: Undergraduate admissions and financial aid 1/1; graduate admissions and financial aid 1/2

Financial Aid: University fellowships, teaching assistantships, teaching fellowships, research proctorships

Enrollment: 80 undergraduate majors, 48 graduate students

Affiliations and Internships: Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity provides research assistance to students and faculty

Program Specializations: race, ethnicity and gender; material culture/technology; public policy; popular culture, ethnography and oral history

Number of Courses Given by Program: 24

The Program in American Civilization was founded in 1945, having as its purpose, as the first catalogue statement explained; to provide the student with more comprehensive and better unified knowledge of American Civilization... than would be possible within the limits of a single department. This eclectic approach still informs the program's goals and structure: the commitment has been to rigorous interdisciplinary study of various aspects of American life and thought, rather than to the development of an isolated and separate field called American Civilization. Through a broad and flexible training, the program gives students the knowledge and experience to draw on the information and techniques of more than one discipline. While the core of the program traditionally has been American history and literature, in recent years students have also taken innovative approaches to studies outside of these disciplines. The program encourages individual initiative and educational experiment within a framework loosely defined by faculty who respect both the utility and the limits of experience.

Special features include the John Carter Brown Library of (pre-1830) Americana; John Hay Library Harris Collection of Songs, Plays, and Poetry and Native American ethnographic material of the Haffenreffer Museum

American Studies Faculty

BUHLE, Mari Jo (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1974) Professor of American Studies; histories of women/gender, cultural history, feminism, psychoanalysis

BUHLE, Paul (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1975) Visiting Professor of American Civilization; Left/labor history, oral history, popular culture, Blacklist film

CAMPBELL, James (PhD. Stanford Univ., 1989) Associate Professor; African American history

DAVIDMAN, Lynn (PhD, Brandeis Univ., 1986) Associate Professor; sociology of gender, ethnography, sociology of religion

EMLEN, Robert (MA, Univ. of Vermont, 1976) Senior Lecturer of American Civilization and University Curator; decorative arts, material culture

GARCIA, Matthew (PhD, Claremont, 1997) Associate Professor; Chicano/Latino identity and community formation, race and ethnicity in the U.S, labor history, Latina/o education, American popular culture, and urban/suburbanization.

HAVILAND, Beverly, Visiting Associate Professor; Ways that race is implicated in cultural institutions, such as film and copyright, at the turn of the twentieth-century and 2) on the representation of child sexual abuse in film, television and literature.

KEIZER, Arlene, Associate Professor; Theoretical implications of literary form, as well as with race, gender, and sexuality as categories of analysis and forces shaping textual production.

LEE, Robert (PhD, Brown Univ., 1980) Associate Professor; Asian American studies, ethnic and racial studies

LUBAR, Steven (PhD, University of Chicago, 1983) Professor; Museums and memorials, material culture studies, and cultural theory in the study of history of technology.

MALONE, Patrick (PhD, Brown Univ., 1971) Associate Professor; material culture, history of technology, industrial archaeology

MECKEL, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1980) Associate Professor; social welfare history, medical history, immigration history, history of childhood

RODRIGUEZ, Ralph (PhD, University of Texas, Austin, 1997) Associate Professor; Latina/o literature and culture, graphic novels/comic books, queer theory, cultural theory, race, ethnicity, feminism, and identity construction

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

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

Chair/Director: Lewis R. Gordon

Degrees Awarded: Concentration

The Afro-American Studies Program focuses on theoretical, historical, and artistic exploration of the culture, philosophy, and literature of the Afro-Americas, embracing North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean and their historic and present linkages to continental Africa.  The program's course offerings and other academic activities are supplemented by extracurricular activities which emphasize the global reach and implications of Afro-America without losing sight of the specific concerns of Afro-America USA.

Faculty

BOGUES, B. Anthony;  Visiting Associate Professor of African-American Studies

CAMPBELL, James T., (Ph.D. Stanford Univ., 1989) Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and American
Civilization

CHRISMAN, Laura ; Visiting Associate Professor

DAUBEY, Madhu; Associate Professor Afro-American Studies and English

DZIDZIENYO, Anani; Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

GORDON, Lewis R.  (Ph.D., Yale Univ., 1993) Professor of Afro-American Studies, Religious Studies, and Modern Culture and Media

JACOBS, Nancy (Ph.D. Indiana Univ., 1995) Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and History

JONES, Rhett (Ph.D, Brown Univ.) Professor of Afro-American Studies and History and Research Director of Rites & Reason

PLATER, Michael; Associate Adjunct Professor, Afro-American Studies and American Civilization, Associate Dean of the Graduate School

PERRY, Leonard D., Jr.; Adjunct Lecturer of Afro-American Studies and Associate Dean of Student Life

SEREQUEBERHAN, Tsenay; Visiting Associate Professor, Afro-American Studies

SHANGE, Ntozake; Visiting University Professor Afro-American Studies and Leeds Theater

TERRY-MORGAN, Elmo (MFA, Univ. of California San Diego) Associate Professor in the Afro-American  Studies Program and Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance; and Artistic Director of Rites and Reason Theatre