http://www.kzoo.edu/

Chair/Director: Charlene Boyer Lewis

Degrees Awarded: BA

Degrees Awarded (2002): 1

Enrollment in the Concentration (2003-2004): 4

Academic System: Quarter

Tuition: $7,636 per quarter

Deadlines: Rolling admissions

Financial Aid: Merit and need based; special scholarships in the social sciences on a competitive basis.

Enrollment (2003-2004): 4 concentrators

Program Specializations: American culture(s), Native Americans, women

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 1

Number of Courses Offered by Related Programs: 40

The concentration in American Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of American culture. The concentration is open to students majoring in English, history, political science, anthropology, sociology, economics, music, art, philosophy, or religion. Nine courses, some of which may be taken in the major field, are required to complete the concentration.

American Studies Faculty

BOYER LEWIS, Charlene (PhD, Univ. of Virginia, 1997) Assistant Professor of American History; social and cultural history, family and women's history

DORRIEN, Gary J. (PhD, Union Graduate School) Associate Professor of Religion; American religion, social gospel movement

KATANSKI, Amelia (PhD, Tufts University, 2000) Assistant Professor of English; American Indian studies, ethnic literature, American literature 1865-present

LIPSON, Daniel (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 2002) Assistant Professor of Political Science; racial politics, civil rights oplicy, socio-legal studies.

MILLS, Bruce E. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa, 1992) Associate Professor of English; American and African American literature

STAUFFER, Robert (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1967) Professor of Sociology; sociology of religion, comparative societies

American Studies Program
1440 Jayhawk Blvd., 213 Bailey Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
Phone: 785/864-4011
Fax: 785/864-5772
E-mail: amerst@ku.edu
http://www.ku.edu/~amerst/

Chair: Cheryl Lester

Graduate Director: Ann Schofield

Degrees Awarded: BA, BGS, MA, PhD

Academic System: Semester

Enrollment (2006-2007): (BA/BS) 119 (MA) 21 (PhD) 44

Tuition: In-state undergraduate $183.75 per credit hour, out-of-state $482.75 per credit hour. In-state graduate $227.05 per credit hour; out-of-state $542.50 per credit hour

Deadlines: Undergraduate admissions and financial aid, N/A; graduate admissions 5/1, financial aid 12/21

Financial Aid: Graduate teaching assistantships, research assistantships, Chancellor’s Fellowships, First Year Graduate Fellowships, Graduate School Honors Fellowships, Melik Fellowships/Scholarships, Minority Graduate Teaching Assistantships, Dwight Eisenhower/Clifford Roberts Graduate Fellowships, Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Awards, Dissertation Fellowships, Summer Fellowships, Direct Exchange Scholarship Program, NDSL, GSL, SLS, and KU Endowment Association loans

Affiliations and Internships: Spencer Research Library, Spencer Museum of Art

Program Specializations: American social and cultural history; race and ethnicity; gender and sex roles; Plains cultures, social and cultural theory, cultural studies, popular culture; U.S. in global context. In addition, the Museum Studies Program offers an American Studies track.

Number of Undergraduate Courses Offered by Program: 33

Number of Undergraduate Courses Offered by Other Programs: 28

Number of Graduate Courses Offered by Program: 43

Number of Graduate Courses Offered by Other Programs: 22

American studies at the University of Kansas offers the opportunity for the interdisciplinary examination of American life and culture. Within broadly defined subject areas, students develop an area of concentration--a period or problem--and draw on appropriate university resources in developing an integrated program of study.

Students must demonstrate coherence in their course plans and show the relationships between their specialty areas and American society and culture.

Because of its selective admission policy and because of the diverse nature of individual student programs, the American studies program emphasizes close personal faculty attention to each student's program of study. Moreover, the program's flexibility grows logically from the view that American studies legitimately can include an analysis of any aspect of the American experience--past, present, and in cross-cultural perspective.

Faculty in the program work closely with graduate students. Program policy is determined by the American Studies Steering Committee, composed of active faculty drawn from American studies, African-American studies, economics, geography, history, history of art, literature, music history, political science, religious studies, sociology, theatre and film, and women's studies. Student representatives participate as full voting members and play an instrumental role in formulating policy.

The program consists of core faculty members who hold budgeted appointments in American Studies and affiliated faculty members from African and African-American studies, anthropology, art history, communication studies, economics, education, English, geography, health services administration, history, human development and family life, humanities, journalism, law, literature, music, philosophy, political science, religious studies, sociology, theater and film, and women's studies.

Core Faculty

ANDERSON, Crystal (PhD, William & Mary) Assistant Professor of American Studies and Undergraduate Director. Comparative ethnic studies (specifically Afro-Asian/American studies) focusing on literature and visual culture, African American cultural studies, modernism and transnational Asian film

FLORES, Ruben (PhD University of California, Berkeley) is Assistant Professor of American Studies). Latin American migration to the United States, the comparative histories of Mexico and the US, and the development of the social sciences during the era of industrialization

GOLASH-BOZA, Tanya (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Studies. Race and ethnicity, Latin America, immigration, and ethnography

HART, Tanya. (PhD Yale) Assistant professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies. Women’s studies, African American studies, public health and medicine in U.S. history, and migration studies, all with an overarching emphasis on identity formation

KATZMAN, David M. (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 1969) Professor of American Studies. Race, ethnicity, and communities; work culture; migration; social history

LESTER, Cheryl (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, 1987) Associate Professor of American Studies and English. American literature and culture (African-American, Jewish), race and ethnicity, literary and cultural theory, family, migration and immigration, William Faulkner

SCHOFIELD, Ann (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, 1980) Professor of American Studies and Women's Studies. American social history; women's history; American labor history

TUCKER, Sherrie (PhD, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1999) Assistant Associate Professor of American Studies. Popular culture during World War II; theories of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and nation; cultural studies; oral history; and jazz studies

TUTTLE, William M. Jr. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1967) Professor of American Studies. Recent U.S. social, political, and cultural history; childhood and the family; African-American history

WHITEHEAD , Kevin (MA, Syracuse Univ., 1978) Lecturer for American Studies and English. Jazz studies

YETMAN, Norman R. (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1969) Professor Emeritus. Racial and ethnic relations; sport in American society; American religion

Affiliated Faculty

AJAYI, Omofolabo Soyinka (PhD, Univ. of Ife) Associate Professor of Theatre and Film and Women's Studies. Feminist criticism, post-modern theory and criticism in theatre, African-American literature

ANATOL, Giselle (PhD, Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of English. Caribbean and African-American literature

ANTONIO, Robert J. (PhD, Notre Dame Univ.) Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of Sociology. Social theory, American political economy

BARNARD, Philip (PhD, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) Associate Professor of English. Early American and 19th-century American literature, Charles Brockden Brown, theory and history of the novel, Poststructuralism to cultural studies, translation theory

BERG, Charles (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) Professor of Theatre and Film. Film, popular culture, jazz

BROOKS, Karl (Ph.D., Kansas) Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies. Environmental law, policy, and history in North America; American social and political history since 1945

CAMINERO-SANTANGELO, Marta. (Ph.D., California, Irvine) Associate Professor. Race and ethnicity in literature; U.S. Latino/a and African-American fiction

CARDENAS, Soraya (Ph.D., Nebraska, Lincoln) Associate Professor of Sociology. Environmental sociology with an emphasis on global water scarcity; qualitative research; race and ethnicity

CAROTHERS, James B. (PhD, Univ. of Virginia) Professor of English. Literature of baseball, modern American novel, William Faulkner

CATEFORIS, David (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Associate Professor of History of Art. American art

CIGLER, Allan (PhD, Indiana Univ.) Chancellors Club Teaching Professor of Political Science. Contemporary political systems, political behavior, agriculture

DONOVAN, Brian (PhD, Northwestern Univ.) Assistant Professor of Sociology. Social control, social movements, culture, sexualities, and race

EARLE, Jonathan (PhD, Princeton Univ.) Assistant Professor of History. History and American culture, 19th-century U.S.

EKERDT, David. (Ph.D., Boston) Professor of Sociology:. Aging; work and organizations; medical sociology; family

ELDREDGE, Charles (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of History of Art. American art

FAWCETT, Stephen (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) Kansas Health Foundations Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Life. American community development.

FISCHER, Iris Smith (Ph.D., Indiana) Associate Professor of English. Semiotics; comparative literature; Pierce studies; modern and contemporary literary and performance theory; cultural studies; drama; the avant garde

FOWLER, Doreen (Ph.D., Brown) Professor of English. Twentieth-century American literature; literature of the American South; Faulkner studies; race studies; literary applications of psychoanalytic theory

GRAHAM, Maryemma (PhD, Cornell Univ.) Professor of English. African American and 19th century American literature; literary history; cultural studies; autobiography; biographical criticism

HANLEY, Eric (Ph.D., California, Los Angeles) Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Sociology. Political and economic sociology; sociology of organizations; social stratification; globalization; and post-communist societies

HANSON, Allan (PhD, Univ. of Chicago) Professor of Anthropology. Social anthropology; semiotics; world view; social theory; Polynesia; contemporary U.S.

HARRINGTON, Joseph (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor of English. Globalization; U.S. literatures; 20th-century poetry and poetics; cultural studies; American culture

HARRIS, Susan (PhD, Cornell Univ.) Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture. American women writers; Mark Twain; 19th-century American literature and culture; early twentieth-century American literature; historical and cultural criticism; biography; immigrant literature; American regionalism

HARRIS, William J. (Ph.D., Stanford) Associate Professor of English. American Literature; African American Literature; jazz studies; American poetry; creative writing

HARTMAN, James (Ph.D., Michigan) Professor of English. Lxicography; American dialects; American English

HEMENWAY, Robert (Ph.D., Kent State) Chancellor of the University and Professor of English. American literature

HILL, Shirley (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) Associate Professor of Sociology. Family; medical systems; social inequality

KELTON, Paul (PhD, Oklahoma) Assistant Professor of History. Indigenous peoples; early America.

LOOMIS, Burdett (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) Professor of Political Science. Political institutions

McLENDON, M.J. (PhD Univ. of California) Assistant Professor of English. The Holocaust literature

MENDOZA, Valerie (Ph.D., Berkeley) Assistant Professor of History. Chicano history

MILLER, Tim (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) Professor of Religious Studies. Religion in America, past and present

MORAN, Jeff (Harvard Univ.) Associate Professor of History. Modern U.S.; cultural and intellectual history; history of sexuality; history of education; Asian-American history

MYERS, Garth (Ph.D., Southern California) Associate Professor of Geography. Sub-Saharan Africa development; cultural and political geography; research on urban and regional development in Eastern Africa; cultural studies and social theory in geography; pastoralism

NAGEL, Joane (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Professor of Sociology. Race; ethnicity; nationalism; sexuality; culture; social movements; comparative-historical sociology

PENNINGTON, Dorthy (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) Associate Professor of Communication Studies and African and African-American Studies. African-American women, communications

PRESTON, Catherine (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Associate Professor of Theater and Film. Film history and theory

PULTZ, John (PhD, New York Univ.) Associate Professor of History of Art. Photography and 20th century art

ROSENBLOOM, Joshua (PhD, Stanford Univ.) Professor of Economics. American economic history

SHARISTANIAN, Janet (PhD, Brown Univ.) Associate Professor of English. 20th-century American literature, feminist critical theory, women writers (Cather, Slesinger, Wharton), modernism, World War I literature, fiction, biography

SHORTRIDGE, James (PhD, Univ. of Kansas) Professor of Geography. American cultural geography; the Midwest

SKRTIC, Thomas M. (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) Professor of Special Education. Mainstreaming educational policy

SMITH, David (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Sociology. Social theory; race and ethnicity; political and economic sociology; comparative and historical sociology

SPANO, Rick (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) Associate Professor of Social Welfare. Child welfare, particularly foster care, sexual abuse; the history of social work and social welfare, ethics, and values as they impact practice

SPRAGUE, Joey (Ph.D., Wisconsin) Associate Professor of Sociology. Sex and gender; cultural sociology; social theory.

STAPLES, William G. (PhD, Univ. of Southern California) Professor of Sociology. Comparative, historical, medical and legal systems, political sociology, theory, work and organizations

STULL, Donald D. (PhD, Univ. of Colorado) Professor of Anthropology. Applied; policy studies; ethnic relations; rapid-growth communities; North American Indians; Anglo-Americans

TIDWELL, J. Edgar (Ph.D., Minnesota) Associate Professor of English. African American and American literatures

WARREN, Kim (Ph.D., Stanford) Assistant Professor of History. 19th century U.S. women's history

WILSON, Theodore (PhD, Indiana Univ.) Professor of History. Diplomatic and military history; 20th century America; Atlantic world; global history

WOELFEL, James E. (PhD, St. Andrews Univ.) Professor of Philosophy and Humanities and Western Civilization. Philosophy of religion

WORSTER, Donald E. (PhD, Yale Univ.) Hall Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of History. U.S. History, Environmental history, North America and world, U.S. Western history, U.S. cultural and social history

YELLOWBIRD, Michael (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) Professor of Indigenous Nations Studies: effects of colonialism and methods of decolonization

ZIMMERMAN, Mary K. (PhD, Univ. of Minnesota) Associate Professor of Health Services Administration and Sociology. Gender; medical sociology; methodology

Chair: Peter Ukpokodu

Degrees Awarded: BA, BGS

The academic program has a focus on African-America studies and deepens the knowledge and enriches understanding of the history and culture of African peoples in the United States of America as a necessary and desirable end in itself, but also as a useful background for professionals whose careers may involve them in this geographical and cultural area. Essentially interdisciplinary, the major gives students a basis for interpreting the historical and contemporary experiences of African peoples in the United States, both broadly and in relation to a particular region, historical period, or cultural manifestation. The major, with its flexibility and the opportunity for fieldwork, encourages students to engage in independent study, if possible in a Black community.

African & African-American Studies Faculty

DRAYTON, Arthur; Professor Emeritus of African and African-American Studies, African Literature, Caribbean Literature, African-American Literature

FREEMAN, Bryant; Director, Institute of Haitian Studies, Haitian studies, Haitian Creole

GORDON, Jacob; African-American studies, African studies

HERBISON, Chico; African-American studies, military history

MACGONAGLE, Elizabeth; History, African History and African-American History

MACK, Beverly; African Studies, Hausa, Islam in West Africa Women's studies, language coordinator

MCLAUGHLIN, Fiona; African studies, linguistics, Wolof

MYERS, Garth; African studies, geography

OMAR, Naima Boussofara; Linguistics, Arabic language and North African and Arabic culture

PENNINGTON, Dorthy; African-American studies, communication studies, African studies

UKPOKODU, Peter; Chair, Department of African and  American Studies African studies, African-American Studies, African Studies, Theater and Film, religious studies

Chair/Director: Donald L. Fixico

Degrees Awarded: MA

The Master of Arts degree in Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas is an interdisciplinary program designed to prepare graduate students for academic careers, to conduct basic and applied scholarly research from a cross-cultural perspective, to develop innovative theories, methodologies, and research tools appropriate for indigenous cultures, and to train candidates to assume leadership and policy-making roles in indigenous communities, in higher education, and in state, national, and international institutions and organizations.

Indigenous Nations Studies Faculty

FIXICO, Donald L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Oklahoma) Professor of History; Director, Indigenous Nations Studies Program

CALHOON, Anne (Ph.D. Marquette Univ.) Assistant Professor of Teaching and Leadership

CRAWFORD, Michael H. (Ph.D., Univ. of Washington) Professor of Anthropology

DEAN, Bartholomew C. (Ph.D. Harvard Univ.) Assistant. Professor of Anthropology

HERLIHY, Peter H. (Ph.D., Louisiana State Univ.) Assistant Professor of Geography

HIRSCH, Bernard A. (Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois) Associate Professor of English

HOFMAN, Jack L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Tennessee) Associate Professor of Anthropology

HOOPES, John W. (Ph.D., Harvard Univ.) Associate Professor of Anthropology

KELTON, Paul (PhD, Univ. of Oklahoma) Associate Professor of History

JOHNSON, Alfred (Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona) Professor of Anthropology; Director, Museum of Anthropology

NAGEL, Joane (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.) Professor of Sociology

NAPIER, Rita (PhD, American Univ.) Associate Professor of History

O'BRIEN, Sharon (Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon) Associate Professor of Political Science and Indigenous Nations Studies

PEWEWARDY, Cornel (D.Ed., Pennsylvania State Univ.) Assistant Professor of Teaching and Leadership

PIEROTTI, Raymond (Ph.D., Dalhousie Univ.) Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

PORTER, Robert B. (J.D., Harvard Univ.) Associate Professor of Law; Director, Tribal Law and Government Center

PYE, Clifton L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh) Professor of Linguistics

RANKIN, Robert L. (Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago) Professor of Linguistics

STULL, Donald D. (Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado) Professor of Anthropology

THURMAIER, Kurt (Ph.D., Syracuse Univ.) Associate Professor of Public Administration, Russian and East European Studies Program

YAMAMOTO, Akira Y. (Ph.D., Indiana Univ.) Professor of Anthropology

American Studies Program
Parker Hall
Keene, NH 03431-1402
Phone: 603/358-2685
Fax: 603/352-2773
E-mail: rlebeaux@keene.edu
http://www.keene.edu/programs/amst/

Program Coordinator: Richard Lebaux

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Instate $4,220, out-of-state $9,720 per year

Deadlines: Admissions 4/1 (Fall), 12/1 (Spring); financial aid 3/1

Financial Aid: Scholarships and grants, Pell grants, SEOG, Keene State College, state, and federal loan programs, work-study

Enrollment (2000-2001): 10 majors

Program Specializations: American literature and culture, literature and environment, popular culture (including music and film) New England studies, Native American literature, multicultural literature, and Caribbean literature.

The major and minor in American Studies offers students the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the American multicultural identity, its past and present cultural values, conflicts and experiences.  Each American Studies major will confer with a core American Studies faculty member in planning a course of study.  Special features of the program include access to the Cheshire County Historical Society, a rich source for research in regional studies; a state-of-the-art film facility with a large holding of films; internships; and opportunities for upper level independent study.

Affiliate faculty from various disciplines offer courses to meet the distribution requirements of the American Studies major and minor, including art, communications, economics, English, film, history, philosophy, political science, sociology, theater, women's studies and journalism.  These courses may also be cross-listed with American Studies.

DIZARD, Robin (PhD Unov. of Massachusetts, 1984) Associate Professor; the 1950s, race relations, autobiographical narratives, the man-and-woman-of words in Carnival

LEBEAUX, Richard M. (PhD, Boston Univ., 1985) Professor; 19th- and 20th-century studies, 19th century American literature, popular culture, the 1960s and 1930s, Thoreau, the Transcendentalists, writers of the American Renaissance, folk music revival, psychological approaches to American culture

LONG, Mark C. (PhD, Univ. of Washington, 1996) Assistant Professor; American literature from the colonial period to the twentieth century, American poetry and poetics, literature-and-environment studies, American intellectual histories, literary criticism and theory, Western American literature
 

Department of History
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Phone: 330/672-2882
Fax: 330/672-2943
E-mail: amst@kent.edu
http://dept.kent.edu/history/

Chair/Director: Shirley Teresa Wajda

Degrees Awarded: BA, MA (minor), PhD (minor)

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: Undergraduate: (instate) $5,598/year; (out-of-state) $11,086/year; Graduate: (instate) $5,954/year; (out-of-state) $11,442/year

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 2/1

Financial Aid: Teaching fellowships

Affiliations and Internships: Area museums and historical societies

Program Specializations: Popular culture, popular music, media, gender studies, environment, material and visual culture, museum studies and historic preservation

American Studies Faculty

Core Faculty

JAMESON, John R (PhD, Toronto) Professor; American Studies and American history; West, environmental

KENNEY, William (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1966) Professor of American Studies and History; popular music, jazz, recording industry

WAJDA, Shirley Teresa (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1992) Assistant Professor of American Studies and History; history of consumption, material and visual culture, women's studies, nineteenth-century American culture

Affiliated Faculty

BADEJO, Diedre (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1985) Professor of Pan African Studies, Director of Institute for African American Affairs; comparative world literatures, culture studies

BINDAS, Kenneth (PhD, Univ. of Toledo, 1988) Associate Professor of History; music in American cultures

CUTTER, Martha (PhD, Brown Univ., 1991) Associate Professor of English; nineteenth-century women's ethnic literature

FRIED, Lewis (PhD, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1969) Professor of English; American Jewish literature

HEAPHY, Leslie A. (PhD, Univ. of Toledo, 1995) Assistant Professor of History; American history, popular culture, sports

JAMESON, John (PhD, Univ. of Toledo, 1974) Professor of History; American west, environmental studies

MERRYMAN, Molly (PhD, Bowling Green State Univ., 1995) Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies; gender and film, women's studies, culture studies

RYAN, Frank X. (PhD, Emory Univ., 1996) Assistant Professor of Philosophy; American philosophy, pragmatism, John Dewey

VIEYRA, Daniel I. (PhD, Case Western Reverse Univ., 1995) Associate Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design

American Studies Major or Concentration
Gambier, OH 43022
Phone: 740/427-5346 (Administrative Assistant); 740/427-5317 (Chair)
E-mail: Rutkoff@kenyon.edu
http://www.kenyon.edu/americanstudies.xml

Chair: Peter Rutkoff

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: Semester

Tuition: $27,850 per academic year

Deadlines: Admissions and financial aid 2/1

Financial Aid: Grants, loans, and employment to 40% of Kenyon students; Merit scholarships; African American/Latino Merit Scholarships, Pell grants, SEOG, work-study, Perkins loans, Stafford loan program, Parents plus loan program

Program Specializations: Art and literature, history and society, ethnicity, and politics and economics, politics and gender, writing

Number of Courses Offered by Program: 5

Number of Cross-listed Courses: 50+

American Studies at Kenyon College provides a framework for the exploration of the people, places, society, and culture of the United States--with special emphasis on the unique and diverse cultures of central Ohio. The major program consists of four components: a one-semester introductory course; five semester courses in curricular options (as noted above in program specializations); and a two-semester senior seminar.

American Studies Faculty

DABAKIS, Melissa (PhD, Boston Univ.) Associate Professor of Art History; women's and gender studies

ELLIOTT, John M.; Professor of Political Science

EMMERT, Kirk; Professor of Political Science

FAGAN, Judith C.; Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

HYDE, Lewis (PhD) Luce Professor of Art and Politics

LYNN, David H. (PhD, Univ. of Virginia) Associate Professor of English

McMULLEN, Kim A. (PhD, Duke Univ.) Associate Professor of English; women's and gender studies

RUTKOFF, Peter (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Professor of History, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in History

SACKS, Howard L. (Univ. of North Carolina) Professor of Sociology; African and African American Studies

SCOTT, William B. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin) Professor of History, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in History

SHEFFIELD, Ric S. (JD, Case Western Reserve Law School) Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Legal
Studies Program; African and African American Studies, women's and gender studies

SMITH, Judy R. (PhD) Professor of English

SPAID, Gregory P. (MFA, Indiana Univ.) Professor of Studio Art; photography

Chair/Director: Theodore O Jr. Mason

Degrees Awarded: Concentration

The concentration has four central goals: (1) to offer students a structured program in African and African-American studies, (2) to help students explore the variety of cultural types and formations in the African Diaspora, (3) to expose students to the connections between African studies and African-American studies, and (4) to promote curricular and extracurricular interest in and awareness of African and African-American culture for the campus as a whole. The program in African and African-American studies consists of (1) AAAS 110 Introduction to African and African-American Studies; (2) 1 unit of foundation courses (1/2 unit in African studies and 1/2 unit in African-American studies); (3) 1 1/2 units of advanced courses (in no fewer than two departments); and (4) a 1/2-unit senior seminar. Each spring the director of the concentration, in consultation with the program's advisory committee, will list the courses offered during the upcoming academic year that will fulfill the various program requirements. Courses counted toward a student's major may be counted toward concentration requirements.

African and African-American Studies Faculty

CRAIS, Clifton C.; Associate Professor of History

ENGELKE, Matthew E.; Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

FAGAN, Judith C.; Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

FOY, Anthony; Visiting Instructor of English and Dissertation Fellow

KOHLMAN, Marla R.; Assistant Professor of Psychology

MASON, Theodore O., Jr.; Director, Associate Professor of English

McFARLANE, Hewlet G.; Assistant Professor of Psychology

McNAIR, Glenn; Instructor of History

RUTKOFF, Peter (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania) Professor of History, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor in History

SACKS, Howard L.; Professor of Sociology

SHEFFIELD, Ric S.; Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies

SUGGS, David N.; Associate Professor of Anthropology

TAZEWELL, Jonathan E.; Assistant Professor of Drama
 

Chair/Director: Mark Spence

Degrees Awarded: BA

Academic System: 3-3

Tuition: $23,235 per year

Deadlines: Admissions 2/1

Financial Aid: Scholarships, grants, loans, campus employment

Enrollment (2001-2002): 6 majors

American Studies Faculty

HAMILTON, Konrad (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1998) American and African-American history, history of affirmative action and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

ROY-FEQUIRE, Magali (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1993) Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies; Feminist Writers of Color, Puerto Rican Nationalism, Slavery in the Americas

SMITH, Robert McClure (PhD, Univ. of Massachussets, 1992) Associate Professor of English; American Literature, Literary Theory, The American Renaissance, Film Studies

SPENCE, Mark David (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1996) Associate Professor of History and American Studies; American Indian history, tourism in the American West, environmental history, public lands and national parks

SUNDERLAND, Lane V. (PhD, Claremont Graduate School, 1972) Chancie Ferris Booth Professor of Political Science; US Constitution and the Supreme Court, Constitutional law, political philosophy

WAGNER, Jon (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1975) Professor of Anthropology; utopias, folklore, "mythology" of Star Trek in American popular culture

Chair/Director: Fred Hord

Degrees Awarded: BA

The major in Black Studies is a program of study which focuses critically on the contributions of African and Diasporan cultures and peoples to human civilizations. It provides an understanding of how Black people have negotiated the forces and events shaping the Black experience, and critiques that negotiation. The program is interdisciplinary and international, using the knowledge and tools of a wide range of disciplines to study the cultures and societies of African and African-descended peoples worldwide. Principal focus is given to Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. Students learn to think critically about the role of race in: the distribution of power, status and resources; the definition of individual and group identities; and the construction and impact of social structures. Students also examine how race connects to culture, gender and class. The Black Studies major seeks to produce knowledgeable, well-rounded individuals with strong analytical, writing and interpersonal skills. Graduates in Black Studies can look forward to careers in law, foreign services, business, academia, public affairs and other opportunities.

Black Studies Faculty

AKUETEY, Caesar (Ph.D., Universite de Franche Comte, France, 1989) Assistant professor of modern languages

COHN, Steven (Ph.D., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986) Associate professor of economics

GRANT, Tony (M.F.A., Yale Univ., 1988) Associate professor of art

GARLOCK, Scott (D.Mus., Univ. of Iowa, 1996) Associate professor of music

HAMILTON, Konrad (Ph.D., Stanford Univ., 1998) Assistant professor of history

HORD, Frederick (Ph.D., Union Graduate School, 1987) Professor of Black Studies

PETTY, Audrey (M.F.A., Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997) Assistant professor of English

ROY-FEQUIERE, Magali (Ph.D., Stanford Univ., 1993) Assistant professor of women's studies

WRIGHT, David (M.F.A., Univ. of Massachusetts, 1996) Assistant professor of English