Degrees Awarded: BA

Degrees Awarded (2003-2004): 7

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2003-2004): 27

Tuition: In-state $3,448/year, out-of-state $10,048/year

Deadlines: Admissions 8/1 (Fall), 12/1 (Spring), open (Summer); financial aid 2/1

Financial Aid: Employment, Grants/Loans (Federal and State), Non-Resident Tuition Waivers, Scholarships

Program Specializations: History, literature, sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology; American Indian Studies, Latino/a Studies, Women's Studies

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 3

Number of Courses Offered by Other Programs: variable

American Studies Faculty

All faculty have affiliations in other departments and teach courses in American literature, folklore, history, music, sociology, political science, anthropology, and rhetoric, among others

ADKISON, Jennifer A.D. (PhD, University of Nevada-Reno, 2002) Assistant Professor of English; Western American literature, women's literature

ADLER, David (PhD, Univ. of Utah, 1985) Professor of Political Science; Constitutional Law

AHO, James (PhD, Washington State Univ., 1971) Professor of Sociology; sociological theory, the religious right

ATTEBERY, Brian (PhD, Brown Univ., 1979) Professor of English; American literature, American Studies

ATTEBERY, Jennifer Eastman (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1985) Professor of English; American Studies, folklore

CARTWRIGHT, Elizabeth (PhD, Univ. of Arizona, 1998) Assistant Professor of Anthropology

ENGEBRETSON, Terry (PhD, Washington State Univ., 1988) Associate Professor of English; early American literature, American Studies, contemporary literature

GABARDI, Wayne (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, 1990) Professor of Political Science; U.S. Government, governmental theory

HATZENBUEHLER, Ronald (PhD, Kent State Univ., 1972) Professor of History; colonial and Revolutionary history

HELLWIG, Harold H. (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1987) Associate Professor of English; nineteenth-century American literature

HOLMER, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Utah, 1983) Professor of Anthropology; Great Basin peoples

KUHLMAN, Erika (PhD, Washington State University, 1995) Assistant Professor of History; American studies, women's history

LOETHER, Christopher (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) Professor of Anthropology; American Indian languages and cultures

MARSH, Kevin (PhD, Washington State University, 2002) Assistant Professor of History; Western history, environmental history

NILSON, Douglas (PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976) Associate Professor of Political Science; the presidency

SIMPSON, Bradley R. (PhD, Northwestern University, 2003) Assistant Professor of History; 20th century American history, urban and labor history

WOODWORTH-NEY, Laura (PhD, Washinton State University, 1996) Assistant Professor of History; Western history, women's history

Department of History
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright St
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217/333-1155
Fax: 217/333-2297
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/

Chair: Peter Fritzsche
Graduate Director: Clare Crowston
American Civilization Option Contact (Undergraduate): Sharon Michalove

Degrees Awarded: BA, PhD (administered through Department of History)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate instate $1,704 per semester, out-of-state $5,112; Graduate instate $1,942 per semester, out-of-state $5,380

Deadlines: Undergraduate admissions 1/1 (Fall), 11/1 (Spring), financial aid 3/15; graduate admissions 1/5 (Fall), financial aid 1/5

The American Civilization Option is located within the larger interdisciplinary field of humanities. This option offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of American Civilization through the study of art, history, literature, philosophy, and the social sciences. Humanities departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, in addition to their own disciplinary majors, have developed and sponsor an interdisciplinary program of study, which encompasses several distinct programs designed to acquaint students in a coherent manner with topics that cross disciplinary boundaries. At present, the major in humanities includes program options in American civilization, cinema studies, history and philosophy of science, medieval civilization, and Renaissance studies.

Graduate students are currently able to assembly an American Studies curriculum within the History and/or English Departments. An American Studies Working Group is currently at work reorganizing the graduate American Studies program as a certificate, and, eventually, a degree program.

Chair/Director: Sundiata Cha-Jua

Degrees Awarded: Minor

The Afro-American Studies and Research Program offers a certificate, equivalent to a department minor, as a complement to a selected field of concentration, for students enrolled in a concentration in the Sciences and Letters Curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will certify that the student has completed the program on the recommendation of the Director of the Afro-American Studies and Research Program.

Core Faculty

PINDERHUGHES, Dianne M. Pinderhughes (University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1977) Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies and Research Program

DECK, Alice; African and Afro-American literature, Professor of English

DASH, Leon

LITTLEFIELD, Daniel (on leave)

PORTER, Aaron; Assistant Professor of Sociology

Interum Director: Arlene Torres

Degrees Awarded: Minor

The Latina/Latino Studies Program offers an Interdisciplinary Minor in Latina/Latino Studies to supplement a major for students enrolled in any college across the campus. The Interdisciplinary Minor in Latina/Latino Studies is not a degree program per se; students will follow a currently approved degree program for their field of concentration. The Latina/Latino Studies Program wants to ensure that students gain extensive knowledge in Latina/Latino Studies.

The Program organizes activities that enhance curricular offerings through conferences, lectures, colloquia, etc. that reach out to the campus at large and to the communities of Illinois. Thus, the offerings will benefit not only those who minor in Latina/Latino Studies but also enhance scholarly discussions on the UIUC campus. Additionally, the Program provides both a location and support for interdisciplinary research, teaching and outreach (campus wide and to the community at large) in Latina/Latino Studies. Latina/Latino Studies refers to the study of those US populations whose roots are traced to original Spanish speaking citizens of this country, and immigrants from countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Program also coordinates the offering of a range of courses in various disciplines whose content either completely or partially covers subject matter on issues relevant to Latina/Latino Studies. Latina/Latino Studies courses are those with at least 50% Latina/Latino course content and are defined according to a list maintained and to be regularly updated by the Latina/Latino Studies Program and taught by an instructor with expertise in Latina/Latino Studies.

Latina/Latino Studies Faculty

BARERRA, Cecilio; Associate Dean Graduate College Admin

BARRERA, Rosalinda; Professor Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction

BERRY, William; Associate Professor Dept. of Inst. of Communications Research

BURGA, Adrian; Assistant Professor Deparment of History

CERVANTES, Christi; Assistant Professor Dept. of Educational Psychology

de ANDA, Roberto; Assistant Professor Dept. of Sociology

DeSIPIO, Louis; Associate Professor /Interim Director Dept. of Political Science/Latina/Latino Studies Program

GARCIA, Georgia; Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction

GUTIERREZ, Rochelle; Assistant Professor Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction

JAQUE, Eva-Lynn; Assistant Professor of Spanish, Italian, and Portugese

JIMENEZ, Robert; Associate Professor Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction

LUGO, Alejandro; Assistant Professor Dept. of Anthropology

MELENDES, Mariselle; Associate Professor Department of Spanish, Italian and Portugese

PILLOW, Wanda; Assistant Professor Dept. of Educational Policy Studies

ROITHMAYR, Daria; Associate Professor Dept. of Law

ROMERO, Rolando; Associate Professor Dept. of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

TORRES, Arlene; Assistant Professor Dept. of Anthropology

VALDIVIA, Angharad N.; Associate Professor Dept. of Inst. of Communications Research
 

American Studies Program
Box 2900
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL 61701
Phone: 309/556-3414
Fax: 309/556-3719
E-mail: aschultz@titan.iwu.edu

Chair/Director: April Schultz

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester, 4-4-1

Tuition: $26,834 (inluces room and board) per year

Financial Aid: loans; work-study

Affiliations and Internships: Urban Life Center, Chicago, IL; local history sites

Program Specializations: Individualized study

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 5

Number of Courses Offered by Other Programs: 104

American Studies is a multi-disciplinary program that offers students the flexibility to work across disciplines to address major questions about American culture and society. Since its inception. Since its inception at Harvard in the 1920's, scholars in Ameican Studies have recognized that no one discipline can adequately come to terms with American culture.

All majors take foundation coures that introduce them to the field of American Studies and its roots in literature, history, and more recently, anthropology. In two requirements titled, respectively, "Social Structure and Institutions" and "Cultural Representations," students are introduced to divergent methods for understanding and interpreting the American experience. In their three-course concentration and senior seminar, American Studies major will have the opportunity to fashion their own unique program. Working closely with the Director of American Studies and American Studies faculty, students may focus their course work and senior research on a time period and study it from a number of disciplinary angles; or they may focus on a theme such as popular culture, ethnicity, gender, political culture, and so on.

The American Studies program also recognized that to be an American is to be a member of a culture of cultures, both within the geographic boundaries of the United States and across borders. In addition to the foundation courses in historical diversity and cultural anthropology, which provide students with a framework for thinking about the tremendous diversity in American life and culture, American Studies offers a unique requirement titled "The Americas." This requirement recognized both the importance of internationalizing the study of the United States and the need for a deeper understanding of the complex relationships among African, European, and Native American cultures in the "New World."

American Studies Steering Committee

BRAY, Bob, Professor of English

BUSHNELL, Paul, Professor of History

GARVEY, Tim, Associate Professor of Art

SCHULTZ, April, Associate Professor of History

SCHULTZ, Robert, Assistant Professor of History

SIMEONE, Jim, Associate Professor of Political Science

SRINGWOOD, Chuck, Associate Professor of Anthropology

American Studies Program
Ballantine 520
1020 Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7103
Phone: 812/855-7748
Fax: 812/855-0001
E-mail: nam@indiana.edu
www.indiana.edu/~amst/

Chair/Director: Matthew Pratt Guterl

Degrees Awarded: Undergraduate minor; [TBA: Undergraduate BA Degree], Ph.D. minor and Ph.D. Combined Degree

Academic System: Semester

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 1/15

Financial Aid: Associate instructorships (for students who have completed AMST core courses), student loans, grants-in-aid of study & research, dissertation year fellowships.

Enrollment (2005-2006): 100 graduate students

Affiliations and Internships: American Historical Review, American Indian Research Institute, Archives of Traditional Music, Art Museum, Folklore Archives, Indiana History, Journal of American History, Lilly Library, Oral History Archives,

Program Specializations: Literature, history, folklore, criminal justice, communication & culture, religious studies

Description: The graduate program in American Studies at Indiana University offers a Ph.D. minor and a combined Ph.D. degree only, which means, students must first be admitted to another cooperating Ph.D. department before they can be considered for admission to AMST. Cooperating schools/departments include: Anthropology, Art History, Communication & Culture, Criminal Justice, School of Education, English, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, History, School of Journalism, School of Law, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, Telecommunication, Theatre and Drama.

Added Faculty: Over 80 faculty in the American Studies Program are drawn from a wide range of cooperating departments within the university. An even larger group of faculty serve in an auxiliary fashion, offering courses in various aspects of American culture and experience.

Chair/Director: John H.Stanfield II

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD minor

Afro-American Studies, as we have developed it from the founding of the department in 1970, is an interdisciplinary field. We encourage all students, junior scholars, and faculty members to apply their unique focus from the traditionally separate humanities and social sciences disciplines: history, literature, drama, folklore, dance, the fine arts, and political science. Additionally, the scholars and course work within the department explore the social and political problems faced by all minorities, and by women.

The department has grown to 80 majors and 14 minors with a total of over 1000 students in our classes each semester. Our majors have been highly successful in competing for scholarships, internships, and job placement. A department Honors program was established in 1994. A Master's Degree in Afro-American Studies was formally approved in the winter of 1997. There are 8 students now enrolled in this program. The department also offers a Ph.D. minor with a concentration in the same areas as our undergraduate major.

Faculty members teach and conduct research on African American topics in various fields, including music, folklore, religion, sports, political science, literature, history, and film studies. Our adjunct faculty specialize in several areas of the performing and visual arts, criminal justice, political science, African literature and law.

Afro-American Studies Faculty

ALEX-ASSENSOH, Yvette (Ph.D., The Ohio State Univ.) Adjunct Professor

ASSENOH, A.B. (Ph.D., New York Univ.) Associate Professor

BAKER, David (M.M.Ed., Indiana Univ.) Adjunct Professor

CALLOWAY-THOMAS, Carolyn (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Adjunct Professor

COOPER, Tyron; Lecturer

GRIM, Valerie (Ph.D., Iowa State Univ.) Associate Professor

HUDSON, Herman C. (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan) Professor Emeritus

JULIEN, Eileen (Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) Adjunct Professor

KLOTMAN, Phyllis R. (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ.) Professor Emeritus

McCLUSKEY, Audrey Thomas (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Associate Professor.

McCLUSKEY, John, Jr. (M.A., Stanford Univ.) Chairperson and Professor

McELROY, Frederick (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Associate Professor

MITCHELL, Carolyn (Ph.D. Boston College) Adjunct Professor

MOTLEY, Frank (J.D., Columbia Univ.) Adjunct Professor

MUMFORD, James (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Lecturer

ROSA, Iris (M.S., Indiana Univ.) Associate Professor, Director of the Afro-American Dance Company

SAILES, Gary (Ph.D., Univ. of Minnesota) Adjunct Professor

STANFIELD, John (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1977) Chair and Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies

SYKES, Charles (D.M.E. Indiana Univ.) Lecturer

TAYLOR, William (MS, Indiana Univ.) Lecturer

WIGGINS, William H. Jr. (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Professor

INDIANA UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST

Department of Minority Studies
Tamarach Hall
3400 Broadway
Gary, IN 46408
Phone: 219/980-6629
Fax: 219/980-6866
E-mail: dtaylorg@iun.edu
www.uin.edu/~minority/

Chair: Danille Taylor-Guthrie

Degrees Awarded: BA

Affiliations and Internships: Community development internships

Program Specializations: Urban studies, community development

The Department of Minority Studies at Indiana University Northwest offers programs leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree in Afro-American Studies and a minor in Latino Studies. The curriculum is designed to acquaint the student with the unique Black and Latino experiences and minority groups in general. It prepares the student to assume positions in fields, such as social services, minority group relations, and community development. Students also pursue graduate level study in the humanities and social sciences.

Minority Studies Faculty:

CONTRERAS, Raoul (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1993) Associate Professor of Latino Studies; Chicano studies, Latino studies, race-ethnic studies, political science (theory)

JONES, Earl R. (PhD, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1980) Associate Profesor of Afro-American Studies; African American studies, race-ethnic studies, urban policy/affairs, community development and change dynamics, social policy planning and the planning process

TAYLOR-GUTHRIE, Danille (PhD, Brown University, 1984) Chair Department of Minority Studies; African American literature and culture, Black cultural studies, Black music, race-ethnic studies, Women's studies, Native American literature, literature by American women of color, folklore and arts
 

American Studies Department
202 Jefferson Building (JB)
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: 319/335-0320
Fax: 319/335-0314 (attn: American Studies)
E-mail: american-studies@uiowa.edu
www.uiowa.edu/~amstud/

Chair: Lauren Rabinovitz

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2001-2002): (BA/BS) 27  (MA) 1  (PhD) 33

Tuition: Instate undergraduate $1,558 per semester, out-of-state $5,772; instate graduate $2,054 per semester, out- of-state $6,165

Deadlines: Graduate admissions and financial aid January 10

Financial Aid: 4-year and 2-year fellowships, teaching assistantships, research assistantships

Affiliations and Internships: Numerous local/regional archives, museums, and public institutions

Program Specializations: Popular culture, film, and television, feminist and queer theories, the performing arts, ethnography and fieldwork, literature and history, documentary and photography, international views of America, and technology and culture.

The Iowa American Studies Department encourages its students to refine their abilities in cultural analysis, cultural criticism, and cultural history, through mastery of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary bodies of materials and modes of understanding. The core American Studies faculty members are interdisciplinary scholars whose first allegiance is to the program and its holistic assumptions. Interdisciplinary courses and seminars in the American Studies Department are complemented by disciplinary courses focused on particular features of American culture from over twenty departments and programs of the university. Undergraduate and graduate students at Iowa design with an advisor their own plan of study, one that meets the particular intellectual needs they wish to satisfy with a blend of interdisciplinary and disciplinary courses.

The Department faculty's special interests include interdisciplinary theory and method, ethnography, film and video studies, performing arts, performance studies, material cultural, photography, popular culture, gender and sexuality, and interrelationships between literature and history. Strong disciplinary courses are offered in English and history, but also in art history, film, communication studies, among others. Minority and/or gender issues are examined in numerous courses, either singly or in combination with more traditional materials, and these are also the focus of courses offered by the Women's Studies Program and the African American World Studies Program. Iowa offers a rich range of possibilities for focus to students of American culture.

American Studies Faculty

ADAMS, Bluford (PhD, Virginia, 1993) Associate Professor; Nineteenth century US culture, fiction and ethnicity

BIRRELL, Susan (PhD, UMass, 1978) Professor; Critical cultural analyses of sport and leisure, Feminist theory and analysis, Mt. Everest as cultural site, Cultural history of the American vacation

CMIEL, Ken (PhD, Chicago, 1986) Professor; American Cultural & Intellectual History, Twentieth-Century Global Politics

DESMOND, Jane (PhD, Yale, 1993) Associate professor; cultural theory; feminist theory; contemporary arts; popular culture; media and live performance; physicality and social identity.

HORWITZ, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1975) Professor; fieldwork, theory and method, community studies

LATHAM, Robert (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1995)

MARRA, Kimberly (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1990)

PORTER, Horace; Professor; African American studies

RABINOVITZ, Lauren (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1982) Associate Professor; popular culture, cinema and television, cultures of American women, technology and culture

RAEBURN, John (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1969) Professor; photography and film, popular culture, literature and culture

RIGAL, Laura (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1989) Associate Professor; technology, the environment, literature and culture of the Revolution and early Republic

YABLON, Nick (PhD, Chicago, 2002) Assistant professor; Nineteenth and twentieth century American cultural, social, politcal, and intellectual history. Urbanism, architecture, and the built environment; and the experiential impact of moden urbanization (on memory, the senses, etc). c

Chair: Horace Porter

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA, PhD (American Studies with African-American concentration)

The African American World Studies Program focuses on the study of people of the African diaspora, particularly in the United States, and on the peoples of Africa. The program is interdisciplinary, drawing cooperating faculty from American studies, anthropology, art, education, English, French, geography, history, political science, Spanish and Portuguese, sociology, and women's studies.

Because a thorough understanding of African American and African cultures cannot be achieved through study restricted to the perspective of a single discipline, all students in the program are required to pursue courses in both humanities and social sciences. The African American World Studies Program continually expands its perspectives by developing or cross-listing courses that fuse the knowledge drawn from many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

The program originated in 1969 through courses intended to foster awareness of African Americans' role in the development of the United States; those courses also were designed to promote understanding of the conditions and concerns of African Americans. Since then, the courses have been organized into a curriculum that includes a program leading to a Bachelor of Arts in African American world studies, an undergraduate minor in African American studies, a Master of Arts in African American studies, and concentrations of African American studies in programs leading to a B.A., MA, or Ph.D. in American studies. Students seeking the Ph.D. in English or history also can organize courses in African American literature or African American history into a special field or cognate area.

African American World Studies Faculty

CRICHLOW, Michaeline; Assistant Professor of African American World Studies

GIBLIN, James; Associate Professor of History/African American World Studies

JEFFERSON, Robert; Assistant Professor of History/ African American World Studies

MacCANN, Donnarae; Visiting Professor of African American World Studies

McPHERSON, James; Visiting Professor of Writer's Workshop/African American World Studies

NAZARETH, Peter; Professor of English/African American World Studies

PIERCE, Harriette M.; Visiting Professor of Drama/ African American World Studies

ROBERTS, Allen; Professor of Anthropology/African American World Studies

WOODARD, Fredrick; Associate Professor of English/African American World Studies

Chair/Director: Helena Dettmer

Degrees Awarded: Certificate, Minor, Graduate Certificate

The American Indian and Native Studies Program (AINSP) is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the histories, cultures, languages, literatures, and contemporary legal and political issues of Native American Indians of the United States and other indigenous peoples of the Americas.

By taking courses in AINSP, students understand historical and contemporary social issues among indigenous peoples of the Americas; they acquire expertise for jobs involving cross-cultural work through experience with ethnic, social, and political diversity; and they gain a background form more specialized or advanced work in a variety of social science areas including anthropology, psychology, geography, economics, education, history, and political science. A certificate in AINSP provides preparation for professional training in museum work, health care, business, and law.

American Indian and Native Studies Faculty

BOLTON, Linda; English

COLLEREDO-MANSFELD, Rudi; Anthropology

COULTER, Joe Dan; Anatomy

DOERSHUK, John; Anthropology

GRAHAM, Laura; Anthropology

LENSINK, Steven; Anthropology

PORTMAN, Gerald; Education

PORTMAN, Tarrell; Education

RAND, Jacki; History and American Indian & Native Studies

REIMER, Toni Tripp; Nursing

ROHRBOUGH, Malcolm; History

ROUND, Phillip; English

THUNDER-McGUIRE, Steven; Art and Art History