American Culture: People
charka@umich.edu
3634 Haven Hall
Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, queer studies
734.764.8363
Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, queer studies
734.764.8363
Evelyn Alsultany
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Associate Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor
alsultan@umich.edu
3527A Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Arab and Muslim American studies; Media and cultural studies, Ethnic studies and mixed-race studies
734.615.4627
Fields of study:
Arab and Muslim American studies; Media and cultural studies, Ethnic studies and mixed-race studies
734.615.4627
saune@umich.edu
Fields of study: 19th and 20th century Native American history, Cultural History, US Empire, Military Violence, Settler-Colonialism
maryamka@umich.edu
Fields of study: African American studies, Black power and the Black arts movement, martial arts in the 20th century social movements, Black popular culture imagery, people of color nationalisms, gender and self-defense
Juanrod@umich.edu
Fields of study: African American Literary Radicalism between the wars, Proletarian Literature, History of the U.S. Communist Movement in the 20th Century, the Cold War, Marxist theory
sergiogb@umich.edu
Fields of study: U.S-Mexico Borderlands, Fronterizo Masculinity, Latino Fraternities, and Sexuality on Social Media.
sberrey@umich.edu
3741 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Race and culture; African American History; U.S. South; 20th-century United States; cultural history
734.615.2936
Fields of study:
Race and culture; African American History; U.S. South; 20th-century United States; cultural history
734.615.2936
mborja@umich.edu
Fields of study: migration, religion, Asian American studies, politics, oral history.
wcalvo@umich.edu
3642 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Visual, material culture and consumption Studies;Speculative Fiction Studies;Latina/o Chicana/o Studies
734.647.3341
Fields of study:
Visual, material culture and consumption Studies;Speculative Fiction Studies;Latina/o Chicana/o Studies
734.647.3341
casidyc@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Performance Studies, Black Feminist Thought, Sexuality Studies, Black Girl(hood) Studies, Black Critical Theory
ichaar@umich.edu
Fields of study: Digital media history and theory, Latina/o Studies, STS, 20th-century U.S. history, history of U.S.-Mexico border
jchl@umich.edu
3527G Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Internet studies, cultural studies, code and algorithm studies
734.764.6799
Fields of study:
Internet studies, cultural studies, code and algorithm studies
734.764.6799
jwcook@umich.edu
1029 Tisch Hall
Fields of study:
19th-century, cultural and intellectual, African-American, popular/mass culture, visual culture, capitalism
734.763.7860
Fields of study:
19th-century, cultural and intellectual, African-American, popular/mass culture, visual culture, capitalism
734.763.7860
Maria Eugenia Cotera
Associate Professor; Director of Latina/o Studies, Undergraduate Advisor for the major and minor
Associate Professor; Director of Latina/o Studies, Undergraduate Advisor for the major and minor
mcotera@umich.edu
3666 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Latina/o studies, gender studies, digital studies, social movements, comparative ethnic studies
734.615.8867
Fields of study:
Latina/o studies, gender studies, digital studies, social movements, comparative ethnic studies
734.615.8867
mcountry@umich.edu
2759 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
African American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history
734.647.2434
Fields of study:
African American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history
734.647.2434
dowdg@umich.edu
3672 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history
734.936.6872
Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history
734.936.6872
belhadi@umich.edu
Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, media and cultural studies, women's and gender studies, race and ethnicity, representations of Muslim American women
jeson@umich.edu
3527F Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Atlantic studies, culture & citizenship, public engagement & community practice
734.647.0908
Fields of study:
Atlantic studies, culture & citizenship, public engagement & community practice
734.647.0908
annawfis@umich.edu
3640 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Digital studies, media theory, performance studies, contemporary art and visual culture, feminist and queer studies, critical theory
734.615.2936
Fields of study:
Digital studies, media theory, performance studies, contemporary art and visual culture, feminist and queer studies, critical theory
734.615.2936
zoid@umich.edu
3036 Tisch Hall
Fields of study:
Late 19th-century British American literature
734.764.0475
Fields of study:
Late 19th-century British American literature
734.764.0475
mlfr@umich.edu
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall;Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
734.615.6473
kfrisina@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: Interrelation of race, rights, and environment in 20th and 21st century literature, drama, and visual culture; performance studies; museum studies. Teaching: American Magazines; Performing American Culture; Contemporary American Drama.
Fields of study: Interrelation of race, rights, and environment in 20th and 21st century literature, drama, and visual culture; performance studies; museum studies. Teaching: American Magazines; Performing American Culture; Contemporary American Drama.
dmgarzo@umich.edu
Fields of study: Orientalism and Postcolonial Theory, Film and Media Studies, U.S. Empire, U.S. History (late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
gaudetj@umich.edu
Fields of study: Early and Nineteenth Century American History, Native American Studies, Environmental History, Borderlands, American West
Joseph P. Gone
Professor; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor
Professor; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor
jgone@umich.edu
2239 East Hall
Fields of study:
Mental health services for American Indians, cultural psychology
734.647.3958
Fields of study:
Mental health services for American Indians, cultural psychology
734.647.3958
judygray@umich.edu
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734.647.2103 (AC)
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734.647.2103 (AC)
gunckel@umich.edu
3632 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Chicano/Latino film and media, Latina American cinema, Mexican cinema
734.615.2935
Fields of study:
Chicano/Latino film and media, Latina American cinema, Mexican cinema
734.615.2935
sgunning@umich.edu
4733 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
American studies; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; African American literature; African diaspora studies; interdisciplinary approaches to literature, femininsm and gender studies, and travel writing
734.763.5525
Fields of study:
American studies; 19th- and 20th-century American literature; African American literature; African diaspora studies; interdisciplinary approaches to literature, femininsm and gender studies, and travel writing
734.763.5525
yhafez@umich.edu
Fields of Study: South West Asian and North African (SWANA) studies, Arab American and Diaspora Social Movements, Decolonial Theory, Queer Studies
kah@umich.edu
3759 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, 20th-century cultural history
734.615.8869
Fields of study:
Visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, 20th-century cultural history
734.615.8869
krisakh@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: Latino American history, U.S. Mexico borderlands, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Teiana/o studies, intersections of race, gender, nation, and sexuality, nineteenth century U.S. cultural history
Fields of study: Latino American history, U.S. Mexico borderlands, Chicana/o, Latina/o, Teiana/o studies, intersections of race, gender, nation, and sexuality, nineteenth century U.S. cultural history
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Associate Professor; AC Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Program
Associate Professor; AC Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Program
jessehg@umich.edu
3751 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Latino studies, Latin American and Caribbean history
734.647.0253
Fields of study:
Latino studies, Latin American and Caribbean history
734.647.0253
jmhoward@umich.edu
3058 Tisch Hall
Research and Teaching Interests: literature and culture in the United States from the mid-nineteenth-century to the present; genre studies; American Studies; gender studies; periodical history; cultural & social theory; disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and knowledge production.
Research and Teaching Interests: literature and culture in the United States from the mid-nineteenth-century to the present; genre studies; American Studies; gender studies; periodical history; cultural & social theory; disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and knowledge production.
bshughes@umich.edu
2518 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
North American religion, African American religious and intellectual history in the 20th century
734.647.4873
Fields of study:
North American religion, African American religious and intellectual history in the 20th century
734.647.4873
iinatty@umich.edu
Fields of study: Literary and critical food studies in the Global South, continental philosophy, queer studies and social change
jallicia@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: Women's, gender, and sexuality studies; African diaspora and Caribbean studies; cultural politics of HIV/AIDS, human rights, and humanitarianism.
Fields of study: Women's, gender, and sexuality studies; African diaspora and Caribbean studies; cultural politics of HIV/AIDS, human rights, and humanitarianism.
mkamil@umich.edu
Fields of study: Postcolonial studies, digital studies, ethnic studies, Palestine, social movements and activism
mckelley@umich.edu
2672 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
American Intellectual History, American Culture, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
734.834.0903
Fields of study:
American Intellectual History, American Culture, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
734.834.0903
drsuad@umich.edu
3527B Haven Hall
505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
Fax: 734.936.1967 734.936.5858
505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
Fax: 734.936.1967 734.936.5858
John Kuwada
Professor; Director of the A/PIA Studies Program and Advisor for the Undergraduate Minor
Professor; Director of the A/PIA Studies Program and Advisor for the Undergraduate Minor
kuwada@umich.edu
Fields of study:
General: Neurobiology
Topic of Research: Genetic and molecular analysis of how genes regulate the formation, activity and function of neural circuits in the brain.
General: Neurobiology
Topic of Research: Genetic and molecular analysis of how genes regulate the formation, activity and function of neural circuits in the brain.
lawrlafo@umich.edu
3757 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Latina/o studies, Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean studies, women’s, gender, & sexuality studies, lesbian, gay, & queer studies
734.647.0913
Fields of study:
Latina/o studies, Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean studies, women’s, gender, & sexuality studies, lesbian, gay, & queer studies
734.647.0913
elawsin@umich.edu
2137 Lane Hall
Fields of study:
Asian American studies, Filipina/o American history literature & communities, community service-learning, Asian American activism
734.763.2047
Fields of study:
Asian American studies, Filipina/o American history literature & communities, community service-learning, Asian American activism
734.763.2047
jooylee@umich.edu
Fields of study: Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Mixed Race Studies, Asian American Studies, African American Studies, Korean Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies
lepeggy@umich.edu
Fields of study: Asian/American and critical ethnic studies; citizenship, labor, and mental health; 20th c. women of color literature
tlombre@umich.edu
Fields of study: 19th and 20th century cultural history of African Americans in the mid-west, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz history and culture, Black music and community development
dmlouis@umich.edu
Lane Hall
Fields of study: 19th- and 20th century African American literature and culture, global black feminisms, history of medicine, slavery, mental illness, sustainability, and disability
734.936.0717
Fields of study: 19th- and 20th century African American literature and culture, global black feminisms, history of medicine, slavery, mental illness, sustainability, and disability
734.936.0717
lyonssr@umich.edu
3187 Angell Hall
Fields of study:
American literature;Native American studies;Critical theory
734.763.2269
Fields of study:
American literature;Native American studies;Critical theory
734.763.2269
maycurry@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: critical mixed-race studies, 20th and 21st century African American literature, and visual culture of the family
Fields of study: critical mixed-race studies, 20th and 21st century African American literature, and visual culture of the family
jhmci@umich.edu
3722 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
19th-century American literature
Fields of study:
19th-century American literature
tiya@umich.edu
3664 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories, especially 19th-century African American women's history and literature, Native American women's history and literature, and U.S. women's history
734.764.5513
Fields of study:
African American and Native American interrelated and comparative histories, especially 19th-century African American women's history and literature, Native American women's history and literature, and U.S. women's history
734.764.5513
ralomi@umich.edu
Fields of study: U.S. History, Labor History and Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Environmental History, Public Humanities
molldrem@umich.edu
Fields of study: LGBTQ/Sexuality Studies, Health Studies, HIV/AIDS studies, Infrastructure Studies, Data Studies, Digital Studies, Social and Political Theory, Theories of GovernmentalityHistory and Theory of Homosexuality
marlenem@umich.edu
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall;Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
734.647.9533
apmora@umich.edu
3767 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
19th-century United States; historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S.; Mexican-American history; Latino/a history; the history of sexuality734.615.5766 / apmora@umich.edu
734.615.5766
Fields of study:
19th-century United States; historical construction of race, gender, and sexuality in the U.S.; Mexican-American history; Latino/a history; the history of sexuality734.615.5766 / apmora@umich.edu
734.615.5766
obmora@umich.edu
Fields of study: Latina/o studies, Latina/o media studies, death and violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, horror films
janeeam@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: 20th C. African American Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender and Women Studies, 20th C. U.S. Social Movement History, Oral History
Fields of study: 20th C. African American Literary and Cultural Studies, Gender and Women Studies, 20th C. U.S. Social Movement History, Oral History
najita@umich.edu
3176 Angell hall
Fields of study:
Pacific literatures in English, Asian American literatures, U.S. minority literatures
734.764.6345
Fields of study:
Pacific literatures in English, Asian American literatures, U.S. minority literatures
734.764.6345
Lisa Nakamura
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor; Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor for the Digital Studies Minor
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor; Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor for the Digital Studies Minor
lnakamur@umich.edu
3735 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Asian American studies, digital media theory, digital game studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, race and gender in new media 734.615.6472
Fields of study:
Asian American studies, digital media theory, digital game studies, feminist theory, film and television studies, race and gender in new media 734.615.6472
navapau@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Latina/o studies, Chicana/o Art, Mexican History in the Midwest, Public art, Transgender studies, Queer Latinidad, Queercore, Queer of color critique.
kateoco@umich.edu
Fields of study: Disability studies, institutionalization, medicine, and reproductive justice; youth and the family; gender, sexuality, and queer theory
pascualm@umich.edu
Fields of study: U.S. Empire in the Philippines, Queer of Color Critique, Asian-American Studies, Visual Culture, and Museum Studies
spedraza@umich.edu
4226 LSA
Fields of study:
Sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, and the Cuban revolution and exodus; Puerto Rican history and exodus.
734.647.3659
Fields of study:
Sociology of immigration, race, and ethnicity in America, and the Cuban revolution and exodus; Puerto Rican history and exodus.
734.647.3659
apitawan@umich.edu
3732 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction
734.615.8896
Fields of study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction
734.615.8896
raramasw@umich.edu
Fields of study: 20th century US; urban history; labor history; history of capitalism; gender; feminist theory; Marxist theory
csalman@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Digital Studies, Surveillance, Censorship, Neocolonialism
xiomara@umich.edu
4177 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
African-American, American: Nineteenth-Century American, Twentieth-Century American; Autobiography Studies; Caribbean; Gender and Sexuality; Global and Transnational; Novel and Narrative; Theory; Women's Literature 764-6368
Fields of study:
African-American, American: Nineteenth-Century American, Twentieth-Century American; Autobiography Studies; Caribbean; Gender and Sexuality; Global and Transnational; Novel and Narrative; Theory; Women's Literature 764-6368
jaslsing@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Sikh diaspora, activism and subjectivities in the post-9/11 era, transnational narratives, feminist and queer theories, digital assemblages and community development.
Alexandra Minna Stern
Professor and Chair of American Culture, Professor in History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor and Chair of American Culture, Professor in History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology
amstern@umich.edu
3703 Haven Hall
FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
contact: amcult-chair@umich.edu
calendar: invitations and appointment requests should be directed to Prof. Stern c/o mlfr@umich.edu
Fields of study:
Health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice 734.615.6473
FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
contact: amcult-chair@umich.edu
calendar: invitations and appointment requests should be directed to Prof. Stern c/o mlfr@umich.edu
Fields of study:
Health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice 734.615.6473
akstill@umich.edu
3765 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology
734.763.5559
Fields of study:
Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology
734.763.5559
hanahsti@umich.edu
Fields of study: Representations of race and gender in new media, Comic Studies, Film Studies
aurelis@umich.edu
Fields of Study: African Diaspora and Gender Studies, Intersectionalities of race, gender, (queer) sexuality, Afro-Latinidad in the Caribbean and U.S., Black Feminist Queer Theory, West African Spirituality in Cuba and the U.S. post colonization
vltruong@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Asian American Studies, Urban History, Social Movements, Women of Color Feminisms, Public History, and Oral History
mwhited@umich.edu
Fields of study: Native American Studies; Anishinabe kinship narratives and ontology; Native literature and literary theory; land, language and belonging
katcw@umich.edu
3504 Haven Hall
Fields of study: Native American Studies, Native American History, gender and women’s history
Fields of study: Native American Studies, Native American History, gender and women’s history
mwitgen@umich.edu
3749 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
American Indian and early American history, the North American West, borderlands history, and pre-confederation Canada
734.647.5419
Fields of study:
American Indian and early American history, the North American West, borderlands history, and pre-confederation Canada
734.647.5419
mzaborow@umich.edu
3743 Haven Hall
Fields of study:
African American and American literary and cultural studies
734.615.8866
Fields of study:
African American and American literary and cultural studies
734.615.8866