American Studies

Field Description

Although there is no formally structured graduate program in American Studies, graduate students in any field at Cornell can elect American Studies as a minor field. In order to declare a graduate minor in American Studies, students should discuss how an interdisciplinary minor in American Studies may fit into their overall interests with an Amerian Studies faculty member. They must also make sure that declaring a minor in American Studies is compatible with the requirements of their major field, and secure the approval of their special committee chair. They will have to constitute their special committee so that one special committee member represents American studies.

This is a minor field. Application for admission is made only to the major fields. After matriculation, a student may select minor subjects from the major or minor fields.

 

Contact Information

Website: https://as.cornell.edu/american-studies-major
Email: american_studies@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-0097

402 Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-0000

 

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

American Studies

• 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

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: American 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, transnationalism, 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

Sofia A. Villenas

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: American Studies: American studies
• Research Interests: anthropology of education, critical race studies, Latina/Chicana Germanisms, 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