Chair/Director: Emil Pocock

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: In-state $1,995 per semester including fees; Out-of-state $4,832 per semester including fees

Deadlines: Admissions: until first day of classes; financial aid: 3/15 (Fall), 11/15 (Spring)

Financial Aid: Scholarships, grants, loans, campus employment; 55% of students receive financial aid

Enrollment (2000-2001): 16

Affiliations and Internships: The University houses the David M. Roth Center for Connecticut Studies. Separate internship programs are run by the Art, History, and Political Science departments in cooperation with Connecticut museums, historic sites, and the state legislature.

Program Specializations: 19th-century social and cultural history, art, and literature; New England studies; African Americans

The American Studies Program, founded in 1972, provides history and English majors the opportunity to pursue a multidisciplinary course of study that explores United States society and culture. BA degrees are awarded in English/American Studies and History/American Studies. American Studies majors take Introduction to American Society in their sophomore year, the Seminar in American Civilization in their senior year, 15 hours of courses in history or literature, plus 15 course hours in American art, music, sociology, political science, philosophy, economics, and New England studies. The program is in a rebuilding stage.

American Studies Faculty

The program is coordinated by committee of six core faculty drawn participating departments. Affiliated faculty teach courses in United States subject matter approved for use in the American Studies majors.

Core Faculty

CLOSE, Stacey K. (PhD, Ohio State Univ., 1992) Assistant Professor of History; African Americans, the South

DAWSON, Anne E. (PhD, Brown Univ., 1995) Assistant Professor of Art; 19th- and 20th-century American art, theory and criticism

LACEY, James F. (PhD, New York Univ., 1968) Professor of English; 19th-century American literature; American Studies in Germany

MALENCZYK, Rita (PhD, New York Univ., 1994) Assistant Professor of English and Director of University Writing Program; 19th-century American literature, nationalism

POCOCK, Emil (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1984) Professor of History; 18th- and 19th-century social and cultural history, American frontier, communities, landscape

LOMBARD, John (PhD, Univ. of Connecticut, 1978) Professor of Economics; money, banking, macroeconomics

Affiliated Faculty

COBBLEDICK, James R. (PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) Professor of Political Science; foreign policy

JONES-BAMMAN, Richard W. (PhD, Univ. of Washington) Assistant Professor of Music; American music

KIRCHMANN, Anna (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) Assistant Professor of History; immigration, recent America

KRASSAS, Nicole (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) Assistant Professor of Political Science; American politics, women in politics

LIN, Jian-Zhong (PhD, Univ. of California, Riverside) Assistant Professor of English; 19th-century American literature

NEWELL, William L. (PhD, Univ. of Toronto) Professor of Philosophy; American philosophy

TAPIA, Elena (PhD, Indiana Univ.) Assistant Professor of English; linguistics

TUCKER, Barbara (PhD, Univ. of California, Davis, 1974) Professor of History; labor history, early America, New England studies

ECKERD COLLEGE

American Studies Program
4200 54th Avenue S.
St. Petersburg, FL 33711
Phone: 727-864-8298
Email: griggscm@eckerd.edu

http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/index.php?f=detail&m=AM&c=L

Program Coordinator: Catherine Griggs

Degrees Awarded: BA

Affiliations and Internships: St. Petersburg Museum of History, Environmental Film Festival at Eckerd College

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 30

American Studies is a broad, interdisciplinary major in American civilization that focuses upon American experience and identity, past and present, using the methods and approaches of a variety of academic disciplines, as well as the distinctive cultural perspective of American Studies.

At Eckerd College, the program is built around the core disciplines of history, literature, political science, museum studies, communication, and cultural anthropology. In order to allow students to shape their courses of study to their own intellectual goals, the major may also include courses in diverse fields such as philosophy, religion, art, economics, communication, women's and gender studies, and sociology, provided that the courses are related to understanding the society and culture of the United States. Each student's program should form a consistent pattern of courses in American culture and institutions.

American Studies Faculty

In addition to the core faculty listed below, many faculty in other disciplines offer courses in the American Studies program, including: international relations, sociology, literature, art history, and anthropology.

GRIGGS, Catherine (Ph.D., The George Washington University, 1996) Associate Professor of American Studies; twentieth-century United States culture, cultural history, media history, women adventurers, documentary film, American Indian film and video.

JOHNSTON, Carolyn (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) Professor of American Studies and History; women's history, environmental history, Native American history

PADGETT, Gregory (Ph.D., Florida State University) Associate Professor of History; African American History, Civil Rights

History/American Studies
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
16007 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA 90506
Phone: 310/660-3735
Fax: 310/660-6085
E-mail: GMIRANDA@elcamino.cc.ca.us
http://www.elcamino.edu/academics/behavioralsocial/americanstudies/

Chair/Director: Gloria E. Miranda

Degrees Awarded: AA

Tuition: $11.00 per unit (CA Residents); $139 per unit (out-of-state); $149 per unit (non-U.S. citizen)

Affiliations and Internships: Community College Internship Program with California State University, Dominguez Hills

Program Specializations: Introduction to American Studies

American Studies Faculty

EULA, Michael (PhD) Professor of History
 

Department of American Studies
Elmira, NY 14901
Phone: 607/735-1937
E-mail: charlesmitchell@elmira.edu

http://www.elmira.edu/academics/majors/american_studies/index

Chair/Director: Charles Mitchell

Degrees Awarded: BA

Affiliations and Internships: Center for Mark Twain Studies at Quarry Farm

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 20

American Studies at Elmira is an interdisciplinary major focusing on the nature and character of American life and culture as a whole. The major requires 36 credit hours, including six credits in American History, "Introduction to American Studies," nine hours of additional course work in American Studies including the Senior Seminar, three credits in European, or Non-Western, Culture and Civilization, and 15 credits from other American content courses selected in consultation with the advisor.

Elmira College is the home of the Center for Mark Twain Studies at nearby Quarry Farm where Samuel Clemens did much of his most productive writing. The original Langdon family farmhouse and the new Gannett Conference Center now serve respectively as a residence for visiting Twain and Americanist scholars and as the site for meetings. Each of the American Studies core courses leads off with a key Twain text as a "way into" the great issues of American culture. The courses were developed with the assistance of funding from the NEH.

American Studies Faculty

MITCHELL, Charles (PhD, Claremont Graduate School, 1994) Associate Professor of American Studies; 19th- and 20th-century American intellectual and cultural, post-1945 political and social, environmental history and literature
 

American Studies Program
Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Phone: 404/727-7601
Fax: 404/727-2370
e-mail: tblando@emory.edu
http://www.ila.emory.edu/

Program Director: Walter Reed

Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $25,100

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 1/3

Financial Aid: All students admitted are offered funding renewable for a total of five years contingent upon satisfactory progress in the program. Funding for each entering student includes a full-tuition fellowship and a stipend of $15,000 annually (2004-05). Students are required to provide service to the Institute. Eligible applicants may also be nominated by the ILA for the Graduate School's Woodruff Fellowship, Emory Minority Graduate Fellowship and A & S

Fellowship competitions. Each of those special fellowship programs offers five years of full support for graduate study in any program of the university. Regardless of funding status, all students are required to carry health insurance and pay computer fees.

Enrollment: 4-5 new graduate students admitted each year Affiliations and Internships: Internships are possible with a variety of Atlanta area organizations, e.g., Atlanta History Center and the Southern Regional Council Program

Specializations: Regionalism, popular culture, the South

Affiliations and Special Resources: Graduate work in American Studies at Emory University is organized within the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts (ILA). The ILA is designed to serve students whose interests cross traditional disciplinary boundaries and draws upon faculty from several departments of Emory University, from Atlanta University Center institutions, from the High Museum of Art, and from the Atlanta History Center.

MA Requirements: Students must take at least 24 paid credit hours, write an interdisciplinary research paper, demonstrate reading fluency in a second language, and take either a written or oral MA examination. Students choosing not to continue in the PhD program must also write a thesis.

PhD Requirements: Doctoral students must take at least 48 paid hours past the MA, write an interdisciplinary research paper, demonstrate reading fluency in a second language, and pass both written examinations and an oral review. Completion of the dissertation is followed by a final presentation, open to the public.

American Studies Faculty

In addition to the core faculty listed below, numerous faculty members from other departments are associated with the American Studies Program.

BAMMER, Angelika (PhD, Wisconsin, 1982) Associate Professor, Narrative and theories of representation, historical memory, nation and cultural identity, feminist and Marxist theory.

BAY, Edna (PhD, Boston, 1977) Associate Professor, African and Caribbean culture and history, women's history, women and development, art and material culture.

BYRD, Rudolph P. (PhD, Yale Univ., 1985) Associate Professor; African American studies

CIENKI, Alan (PhD, Brown, 1988) Associate Professor, Language and cognition, semantics, metaphor (esp. in political discourse), gesture with speech.

CORRIGAN, Kevin (PhD, Dalhousie, 1980) Professor; Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Patristics, Literature, Theory

GILMAN, Sander (PhD, Tulane, 1968) Professor; History of Medicine, History of Psychiatry, Jewish Cultural Studies, Visual Studies, European Comparative Literary Studies, Cultural History

GOODSTEIN, Elizabeth (PhD, Berkeley, 1996) Associate Professor; Literature and culture of modernity in France, Germany, and Austria; Theories of subjectivity, history, and temporality

GRIMSHAW, Anna (PhD, Cambridge, 1984) Associate Professor; Visual anthropology, documentary cinema, experimental ethnography

KARP, Ivan (PhD, Virginia, 1974) Professor, Anthropology and comparative culture studies, museums and cultural displays, African social organization, religion and systems of thought, culture and power, social and cultural theory

KUSHNER, Howard (PhD, Cornell) Professor, History of Medicine and Disease, Psychiatry and Neurology, and Addiction

LEVENDUSKI, Cristine (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota, 1989) Associate Professor; early American literature and culture, autobiography, popular culture

NICKERSON, Catherine (PhD, Yale Univ., 1991) Associate Professor; 20th-century American literature and culture

OTIS, Laura (PhD, Cornell, 1991) Professor; Science and literature, memory

REED, Walter (PhD, Yale, 1969) Professor and Director; comparative literature

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

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

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

Chair/Director: Rudolph P. Byrd

Degrees Awarded: BA

African American Studies is a multidisciplinary program in which a student may concentrate for the Bachelor of Arts degree. Study abroad is deemed an important part of the program of study for all majors, as well as an internship embodying appropriate practical experience in both public and private institutions, as well as community projects. Majors are encouraged to explore the interrelationship between class, gender, race, sexuality and theories of culture as they influence the formation of identity and community.

African American Studies Faculty

ALDRIDGE, Delores P. (Ph.D., Purdue Univ.) Grace Towns Hamilton Professor of Sociology

ANDREWS, Dwight D. (Ph.D., Yale Univ.) Associate Professor of Music

BARNES, Natasha (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan) Assistant Professor of English

BAY, Edna G. (Ph.D., Boston Univ.) Associate Professor of History, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts

BROWN, Robert (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan) Assistant Professor of Political Science

BYRD, Rudolph P. (Ph.D., Yale Univ.) Associate Professor of American Studies, The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and Director of the Program of African American Studies

DAVIS, Leroy (Ph.D., Kent State Univ.) Associate Professor of History

DOWELL, Peter (Ph.D., Univ. of Minnesota) Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Emory
College

FOSTER, Francis Smith (Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego) Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies

GILEAD, Maggie (Ph.D, Emory Univ.) Associate Professor in the School of Nursing

HARRIS, Leslie M. (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.) Assistant Professor of History

JOSEPH, Richard (Ph.D., Oxford Univ.) Asa G. Candler Professor of Political Science

KASFIR, Sidney (Ph.D., Univ. of London) Associate Professor of Art History

LACY, Karyn (PhD, Harvard Univ.) Assistant Professor of Sociology

McCALL, Nathan (B.A. Norfolk State Univ.) Visiting Professor of Journalism, African American Studies, and Creative Writing

MANN, Kristen (Ph.D, Stanford Univ.) Associate Professor of History

PRUDE, Jonathan (Ph.D, Harvard Univ.) Associate Professor of History

ROARK, James L. (Ph.D, Stanford Univ.) Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History

ROBINS, Rosemary Gay (Ph.D, Univ. of Oxford) Professor and Department Chair of Art History

RONE, Tracy (PhD, Univ. of Mississippi) Associate Dean of Emory College

SANDERS, Mark (Ph.D, Brown Univ.) Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Program of African American Studies

SINGH, Yvonne (PhD, Cornell Univ.) Assistant professor of Theater Studies

SMITH, Theophus (Ph.D, Graduate Theological Seminary) Associate Professor of Religion

SOYINKA, Wole (MA, Univ. of Leeds, England) Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts

STEWART, Dianne (PhD, Union Theological Seminary) Assistant Professor of Religion

TULLOS, Allen E. (Ph.D, Yale Univ.) Associate Professor in The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts

WALLACE-SANDERS, Kimberly (Ph.D, Boston Univ.) Assistant Professor of The Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts and Women's Studies

WARREN, Nagueyalti (Ph.D, Univ. of Mississippi) Associate Dean of Emory College

WERUM, Regina (Ph.D, Indiana Univ.) Assistant Professor of Sociology

WHITE, Dana (Ph.D, George Washington Univ.) Professor in The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts