People

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Associate Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

drsuad@umich.edu 3527B Haven Hall
505 S. State Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045

Fields of study: race, religion, popular culture

Fax: 734.936.1967 734.936.5858

Arab and Muslim American Studies; American Culture

Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Assistant Professor

charka@umich.edu 3634 Haven Hall

Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, queer studies
734.764.8363

American Culture

Sigrid Anderson
Adjunct Lecturer

sigrid@umich.edu

American Culture

Ron Aramaki
Intermittent Lecturer

raramaki@umich.edu

American Culture

Juan Rodriguez Barrera
Graduate Student

juanrod@umich.edu Fields of study: 20th-century African-American history and culture, the cultural Cold War, proletarian fiction and poetry

American Culture

Sergio Barrera
Graduate Student

sergiogb@umich.edu Fields of study: Critical Masculinities and Anti-Patriarchy Studies, Women of Color Feminisms, Queer of Color Critique, Dance and Performance Studies, Latina/o/x student experiences at universities, and embodiment in gendered spaces.

American Culture

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor

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

American Culture

Glenesha Berryman
Graduate Student

gberrym@umich.edu Fields of study: Contemporary Black cultural production and digital practices.

American Culture

Melissa Borja
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

mborja@umich.edu 3657 Haven Hall

Fields of study: migration, religion, Asian American studies, politics, oral history

American Culture

Loveleen Brar
Graduate Student instructor FA20

lbrar@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian American studies, critical food studies and transnational feminism

American Culture

Michael Brier
Graduate Student

mbrier@umich.edu Fields of study: History of Capitalism, Critical Race Theory, Political Technologies

American Culture

Kathleen Brown
Graduate Student Instructor FA20

kbrowns@umich.edu Fields of study: Contribute to the recovery of marginalized Spanish Civil War writers and place them in transnational networks of cultural exchange and solidarity.

American Culture

Umayyah Cable
Assistant Professor

ucable@umich.edu Haven Hall

Fields of study: Arab & Muslim American studies, diaspora studies, media activism, Palestinian cinema, postcolonial theory queer theory

American Culture

William Calvo-Quirós
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA20

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

American Culture

Casidy Campbell
Graduate Student

casidyc@umich.edu Fields of Study: Black Girlhood, Black Feminism and Black Women's History, Internet and Digital Studies, Tech History

American Culture

John Cheney-Lippold
Associate Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

jchl@umich.edu 3527G Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Internet studies, cultural studies, code and algorithm studies
734.764.6799

American Culture

Jay Cook
Professor by Courtesy in American Culture

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

American Culture

Clare Croft
Associate Professor

chcroft@umich.edu 2105 Geddes, Dance

Fields of study:
Dance and performance studies, cultural policy, race, gender, sexuality, dramaturgy
734-764-4463

American Culture

Manan Desai
Associate Professor
On Leave WN21

mrdesai@umich.edu 3658 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
South Asian American studies
734.615.2524

American Culture

Gregory E. Dowd
Interim Chair of American Culture, Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor

amcult-chair@umich.edu 3703 Haven Hall

FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
contact: amcult-chair@umich.edu
calendar: invitations and appointment requests should be directed to Prof. Dowd c/o mlfr@umich.edu

Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history
734.615.6473

American Culture

Sena Duran
Graduate Student

sduran@umich.edu Fields of Study: Muslim-American studies, gender studies, transnationalism, and the queer of color critique.

American Culture

Dejan Duric
Graduate Student Instructor FA20

duric@umich.edu Fields of Study: Religion, law, migration, social activism, undocumented youth, the sanctuary movement, Central American, and Chicana/o studies.

American Culture

Jasmine Ehrhardt
Graduate Student

jlehrhar@umich.edu Fields of Study: Ethnonationalism, digital media studies, social networks, visual cultures, and Asian American studies.

American Culture

Belquis Elhadi
Graduate Student

belhadi@umich.edu Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, media and cultural studies, women of color feminisms, race and racialization, representations of visibly Muslim women.

American Culture

Julie Ellison
Professor

jeson@umich.edu 3527F Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Atlantic studies, culture & citizenship, public engagement & community practice
734.647.0908

American Culture

Anna Watkins Fisher
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

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

American Culture

Jonathan Freedman
Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor
On Leave

zoid@umich.edu 3036 Tisch Hall

Fields of study:
Late 19th-century British American literature
734.764.0475

American Culture

Mary Freiman
Executive Secretary

mlfr@umich.edu 3727 Haven Hall

Contact Mary: to schedule an appointment with the chair; if you have questions about Budgeted Faculty and Executive Committee Meetings; and for matters related to tenure-track faculty reviews, sabbatical & leave requests, and FARs
(voicemail only) 734-615-6473

American Culture

Judith Gray
Chief Administrator

judygray@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall
734-647-2103 (AC)

American Culture

Colin Gunckel
Associate Professor, AC Director of Graduate Studies

gunckel@umich.edu 3632 Haven Hall

FOR GRADUATE STUDIES BUSINESS
contact: amcult-dgs@umich.edu

Fields of study:
Chicano/Latino film and media, Latina American cinema, Mexican cinema
734.615.2935

American Culture

Sandra Gunning
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
On Leave WN21

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

American Culture

Mona Hagmagid
Graduate Student

hagmagid@umich.edu Fields of study: Historical impact of Muslim-Americans on the fabric of American culture, concentrating on the racial, class, and sectarian differences that made up 20th-century Muslim-American communities.

American Culture

Kristin Hass
Associate Professor

kah@umich.edu 3759 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Visual culture, material culture, museum studies, memory, 20th-century cultural history
734.615.8869

American Culture

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

jessehg@umich.edu 3751 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Latino studies, Latin American and Caribbean history
734.647.0253

American Culture

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
On Leave WN21

jmhoward@umich.edu 3058 Tisch Hall

Fields of study:
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

American Culture

Bethany Hughes
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA20 & WN21

drbh@umich.edu 3664 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th- & 20th-century Native American portrayal, dramaturgy
734.936.4374

American Culture

Roland Hwang
Lecturer I

hwangr@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall 925-586-4613

American Culture

Irene Inatty
Graduate Student

iinatty@umich.edu Fields of study: Literary and critical food studies in the Global South, continental philosophy, queer studies, and social change.

American Culture

Leila Kawar
Associate Professor

lckawar@umich.edu 1516 East Quad, Residential College

Fields of study: Law and Society, migration and migrant labor, transnational social movements
734-647-4351

American Culture

Mary C. Kelley
Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor
On Leave WN21

mckelley@umich.edu 2672 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
American Intellectual History, American Culture, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
734.834.0903

American Culture

Nancy A. Khalil
Assistant Professor

nancyak@umich.edu Fields of study:
Muslims, politics, authority, racialization, advertising, ethnographic methods

American Culture

Adrian King
Graduate Student

adrking@umich.edu Fields of study: Black Trans Studies, Trans and Queer of Color Critique, Popular Culture Studies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies

American Culture

Katia Kitchen
Graduate Coordinator

kitchenk@umich.edu 3719 Haven Hall
734-647-9533

American Culture

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Professor

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

American Culture

Scott Larson
Lecturer IV, AC Undergraduate Advisor

smlarson@umich.edu 3733 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
18th- and 19th- century American Cultural History; American Religious Cultures; Disability Studies; Transgender History; Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
734.615.6474

American Culture

Emily Lawsin
Lecturer IV

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

American Culture

Joo Young Lee
Lecturer I, A/PIA Core Faculty

jooylee@umich.edu

American Culture

Kyle Lindsey
Graduate Student Instructor FA20

kylelind@umich.edu Fields of study: On- and offline experiences of asexual people of color, and analyze U.S. sexual politics in our contemporary moment.

American Culture

Traci Lombre
Graduate Student

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.

American Culture

Diana Louis
Assistant Professor by Courtesy in American Culture

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

American Culture

Khaled Mattawa
Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

kmattawa@umich.edu 3240 Angell Hall

Fields of study: Postcolonial Studies; Twentieth Century American; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics

734-764-9208

American Culture

Michelle May-Curry
Graduate Student

maycurry@umich.edu 3504 Haven Hall

Fields of study: Critical mixed-race studies, 20th and 21st-century visual narratives of race and gender, representations of mixed-race families in new and alternative media.

American Culture

James McIntosh
Professor Emeritus

jhmci@umich.edu 3722 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th-century American literature

American Culture

Barbra A. Meek
Professor; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

bameek@umich.edu Office: 234-C West Hall
Lab: 238-B West Hall
1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Fields of study: language endangerment & revitalization, discrimination & difference, media, North America
734-936-3192

American Culture

Cherry Meyer
LSA Collegiate Fellow in American Culture

cherryme@umich.edu Haven Hall

Fields of study: Ojibwe (Algonquian), morphology, semantics, noun categorization, gender, classifiers,language documentation and revitalization, language typology, word order, information structure, figurative language processing, idioms

American Culture

Alice Mishkin
Graduate Student

amishkin@umich.edu Fields of Study: Anti-Occupation Jewish organizations in the United States, Palestinian solidarity, Zionism, White nationalism, and anti-Semitism.

American Culture

Anthony P. Mora
Associate Professor;
Interim Director of the Program in Latina/o Studies and Undergraduate Advisor for the major and minor

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 sexuality
734.615.5766

American Culture

Emily Na
Graduate Student

naemily@umich.edu Fields of Study: African American literature, visual culture, American slavery, memory, museums

American Culture

Susan Najita
Associate Professor

najita@umich.edu 3176 Angell hall

Fields of study:
Pacific literatures in English, Asian American literatures, U.S. minority literatures
734.764.6345

American Culture

Lisa Nakamura
Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor; Director of the Digital Studies Institute

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

American Culture

Pau Nava
Graduate Student

navapau@umich.edu Fields of Study: Chicana/o art, Latina/o studies, Mexican Chicago, Feminist Archival Studies, Queer Latinidad, Visual Culture

American Culture

Kate O'Connor
Graduate Student

kateoco@umich.edu Fields of study: Disability studies; 19th and 20th century US; Institutionalization; History of Childhood and Youth; History of Medicine; Migration & Industrialization on Detroit/Canada border.

American Culture

Michael Pascual
Graduate Student Instructor FA20

pascualm@umich.edu Fields of study: U.S. Empire in the Philippines, Queer of Color Critique, Asian-American Studies, Visual Culture, and Museum Studies.

American Culture

Silvia Pedraza
Professor

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

American Culture

Chloe Perry
Graduate Student

chloeper@umich.edu Fields of study: Digital Studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and social media / online forums.

American Culture

Alphonse Pitawanakwat
Lecturer

apitawan@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction
734.615.8896

American Culture

Ava Purkiss
Assistant Professor
On Leave WN21

apurkiss@umich.edu Lane Hall

Fields of study: black women’s history; African American history; race, gender, and heath; fitness culture
734.936.0717

American Culture

Robert Ramaswamy
Graduate Student

raramasw@umich.edu Fields of study: 20th century US; urban history; labor history; history of capitalism; gender; feminist theory; Marxist theory.

American Culture

Andrew Reiter
Academic Program Specialist

anreiter@umich.edu 3725 Haven Hall
734-763-0031

American Culture

Megan Rim
Graduate Student

meganrim@umich.edu Fields of study: How people of color in contemporary social movements utilize media and digital technologies.

American Culture

Yeidy Rivero
Professor

yrivero@umich.edu 6330 North Quad
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

Fields of study:
Television studies, Race and media, Global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies
734.615.4614

American Culture

Cengiz Salman
Graduate Student

csalman@umich.edu Fields of Study: Digital studies, unemployment and labor (formal and informal), critiques of capitalism, and racial capitalism.

American Culture

Ian Shin
Assistant Professor

ianshin@umich.edu 2640 Haven Hall hours: TBA for Fall 2020

Intellectual & Cultural History; Race & Ethnicity; United States; History

American Culture

Jasleen Singh
Graduate Student

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.

American Culture

Kyera Singleton
Graduate Student

kyera@umich.edu Fields of study: Black women’s bodies and diaspora.

American Culture

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor Emerita

csmithro@umich.edu

American Culture

Alexandra Minna Stern
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture and Women's and Gender Studies; Associate Dean for the Humanities, Office of the LSA Dean

humanitiesad@umich.edu LSA 2256
FOR LSA BUSINESS
contact: humanitiesad@umich.edu

For everything else
contact: amstern@umich.edu

Fields of study: Health and society, reproductive politics, genetics and social justice
734-647-2115

Administration; Academic Affairs; American Culture

Matthew Stiffler
Lecturer

mattws@umich.edu 3639 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Arab American studies
734.647.9536

American Culture

Amy Stillman
Professor

akstill@umich.edu 3765 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology
734.763.5559

American Culture

Hanah Stiverson
Graduate Student

hanahsti@umich.edu Fields of study: Digital Studies, Cultural Studies, New Media, Far-right ideologies, and Extremism

American Culture

Hitomi Tonomura
Professor; Director of A/PIA Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

tomitono@umich.edu 1719 Haven Hall 734.647.7298

American Culture

Aurelis Troncoso
Graduate Student

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.

American Culture

Lisa Tune
Events and Communications Coordinator

ltune@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall
734-764-5322

American Culture

Alan Wald
H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus

awald@umich.edu 3187 Angell Hall,
Ann Arbor, Mi. 48109-1003.

Fields of study:
20th-century U.S. cultural Left
734-995-1499

American Culture

Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Assistant Professor

walkerjk@umich.edu 4658 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Black Feminist Theory, Critical Food Studies, Space and Place
734-763-5518

American Culture

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang
Intermittent Lecturer: Department of American Culture, Program in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

fkwang@umich.edu Fields of Study: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies: Asian/Pacific Islander American Media, Civil Rights, Activism, Arts, History, and Journalism

American Culture

Kerry White
Graduate Student

kpwhite@umich.edu Fields of Study: Trans and Queer of Color Critique, Cuban and Caribbean Studies, Ethnographic Writing"

American Culture

Mallory Whiteduck
Graduate Student

mwhited@umich.edu Fields of study: Native American literature, Native American studies, feminist life writing.

American Culture

Julianna Loera Wiggins
Graduate Student Instructor FA20

wigginsj@umich.edu Fields of study: Latina/o/x Studies; Chicana/o/x Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; Social Movements; 20th Century Southwest (Counter) Culture and History; and Oral History/Testimonio

American Culture

Michael Witgen
Professor

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

American Culture

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor; AC Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Program

mzaborow@umich.edu 3743 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
African American and American literary and cultural studies
734.615.8866

American Culture

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