Field Description

Contact Information

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

American Studies (minor)

• American studies (minor)

Faculty

Glenn C. Altschuler

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies

Edward E. Baptist

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American studies

Richard F Bensel

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American political development; state formation; comparative political economy; the United States Congress

Jeremy H. Braddock

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: 20th century american literature and culture, modernism, cultural institutions, media and book history

Mary Pat Brady

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies

Derek S Chang

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: Asian American, African American, and 19th Century U.S. history; U.S. race relations; American religion

Eric T Cheyfitz

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American studies

J. Ellen Gainor

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American Drama and Theatre; Women and Theatre

Maria Cristina Garcia

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: immigration and ethnic history; folklore

William Gaskins

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: race and representation; cinema and portraiture; contemporary art and the politics of visual culture

Frederic Wright Gleach

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: Native North America, Puerto Rico and Cuba; textual, material and visual culture; tourism; history of American anthropology.

Sabine Haenni

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: merican cinema; silent film; mass culture; cinema in the context of other media (including theater); theories of race and ethnicity; immigrant cultures, urban studies

Anna R. Haskins

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: social stratification and inequality; sociology of education; race and ethnicity, mass incarceration

George Hutchinson

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: american modernism; african-american literature; race in american culture; Walt Whitman

Karen Jaime

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: film and culture; spoken word poetry; hip-hop theatre studies; critical race theory; women of color feminisms and queer color critique

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies

Jonathan David Kirshner

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: international relations, money and finance, political economy and national security, politics and film

Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: US political and social history after World War II; the welfare-state and mass-incarceration

Oneka LaBennett

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: popular youth culture; race, gender and consumption; urban anthropology; caribbean migration and diaspora

Alexander Livingston

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: democratic theory, american pragmatism, 19th - 20th century american political thought

Alejandro Madrid

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: latino music; masculinities; U.S.-Mexico border; transnationalsim; embodied culture

Kate McCullough

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American studies

Robert Laurence Moore

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American intellectual, cultural, and religious history

Mary Beth Norton

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: Women, Early America

Jon William Parmenter

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American studies

Benjamin Piekut

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: experimental music, improvisation, cultural studies, jazz, popular music and sound studies

Steven F Pond

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies

Noliwe Rooks

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: racial implication of beauty and fashion; racial inequality in education; race, migration and urbanization; black women's studies

Aaron J. Sachs

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: american culture, environmental studies

Nicholas G. Salvato

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: american cinema and media; 20th century theatre and performance; television and popular culture; feminist and queer theory

Shirley R Samuels

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: 18th and 19th century American fiction; American women writers

Mildred Elizabeth Sanders

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: american political development, social movements, economics regulation, foreign policy

Vilma Santiago-Irizarry

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: ethnicity; language, institutional culture, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, urban anthropology, Latino cultures

Martin Allen Shefter

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: American political history; Urban studies

Sofia A. Villenas

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: anthropology of education, critical race studies, latina/chicana germinisms, civic education, ethnography and narrative

Sara L. Warner

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: performance studies; theories of sex, gender and sexuality; theater and social change; the American prison system

Margaret Washington

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies

Christopher Wildeman

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: consequences of mass imprisonment for inequality, with emphasis on families, health, and children; child welfare and the foster care system