People

Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Assistant Professor

charka@umich.edu 3634 Haven Hall

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

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

Stefan Aune
Graduate Student

saune@umich.edu Fields of study: 19th and 20th century Native American history, Cultural History, US Empire, Military Violence, Settler-Colonialism

Maryam Aziz
Graduate Student

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

Juan Rodriguez Barrera
Graduate Student

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

Sergio Barrera
Graduate Student Instructor

sergiogb@umich.edu Fields of study: U.S-Mexico Borderlands, Fronterizo Masculinity, Latino Fraternities, and Sexuality on Social Media.

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor and AC Director of Graduate Studies

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

Melissa Borja
Assistant Professor

mborja@umich.edu Fields of study: migration, religion, Asian American studies, politics, oral history.

William Calvo-Quirós
Assistant Professor

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

Casidy Campbell
Graduate Student

casidyc@umich.edu Fields of Study: Performance Studies, Black Feminist Thought, Sexuality Studies, Black Girl(hood) Studies, Black Critical Theory

Iván Chaar-López
Graduate Student

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

John Cheney-Lippold
Associate Professor

jchl@umich.edu 3527G Haven Hall

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

Jay Cook
Professor
On Leave FA17

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

Maria Eugenia Cotera
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

Matthew Countryman
Associate Professor

mcountry@umich.edu 2759 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
African American social movements, 20th-century U.S. history
734.647.2434

Manan Desai
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA17 & WN18

mrdesai@umich.edu 3658 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
South Asian American studies
734.615.2524

Gregory E. Dowd
Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor

dowdg@umich.edu 3672 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Native American and Early American history
734.936.6872

Sena Duran
Graduate Student

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

Dejan Duric
Graduate Student

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

Abigail Dykstra
Academic Program Specialist

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

Jasmine Ehrhardt

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

Belquis Elhadi
Graduate Student Instructor

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

Julie Ellison
Professor
On Leave FA17

jeson@umich.edu 3527F Haven Hall

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

Anna Watkins Fisher
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA17

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

Jonathan Freedman
Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor

zoid@umich.edu 3036 Tisch Hall

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

Mary Freiman
Executive Secretary

mlfr@umich.edu Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall;Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734.615.6473

Kyle Frisina
Graduate Student

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.

Dominic Garzonio
Graduate Student

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)

Joseph Gaudet
Graduate Student

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

jgone@umich.edu 2239 East Hall

Fields of study:
Mental health services for American Indians, cultural psychology
734.647.3958

Judith Gray
Chief Administrator

judygray@umich.edu
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734.647.2103 (AC)

Colin Gunckel
Associate Professor

gunckel@umich.edu 3632 Haven Hall

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

Sandra Gunning
Professor

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

Yahya Alami Hafez
Graduate Student

yhafez@umich.edu Fields of Study: South West Asian and North African (SWANA) studies, Arab American and Diaspora Social Movements, Decolonial Theory, Queer Studies

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

Kris Klein Hernandez
Graduate Student

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

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
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

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
On Leave WN18

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.

Brandi Hughes
Assistant Professor

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

Irene Inatty
Graduate Student Instructor

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

Jallicia Jolly
Graduate Student Instructor

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.

Meryem Kamil
Graduate Student

mkamil@umich.edu Fields of study: Postcolonial studies, digital studies, ethnic studies, Palestine, social movements and activism

Mary C. Kelley
Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor

mckelley@umich.edu 2672 Haven Hall

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

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Associate Professor
On Leave FA17 & WN18

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

Fax: 734.936.1967 734.936.5858

Arab and Muslim American Studies

Katelynn Klemm
Events and Communications Coordinator

klemmkat@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall 734.764.5322

John Kuwada
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.

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Associate 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

Scott Larson
Lecturer III

smlarson@umich.edu 3733 Haven Hall 734.615.6474

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

Joo Young Lee
Graduate Student

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

Peggy Lee
Graduate Student

lepeggy@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian/American and critical ethnic studies; citizenship, labor, and mental health; 20th c. women of color literature

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

Diana Louis
Assistant Professor

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

Michelle May-Curry
Graduate Student Instructor

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

James McIntosh
Professor Emeritus

jhmci@umich.edu 3722 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th-century American literature

Tiya Miles
Mary Henrietta Graham Distinguished University Professor of African American Women

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

Rachel Miller
Graduate Student

ralomi@umich.edu Fields of study: U.S. History, Labor History and Political Economy, Cultural Studies, Environmental History, Public Humanities

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

Stephen Molldrem
Graduate Student

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

Marlene Moore
Graduate Program Coordinator

marlenem@umich.edu Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall;Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734.647.9533

Anthony P. Mora
Associate Professor

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

Orquidea Morales
Graduate Student

obmora@umich.edu Fields of study: Latina/o studies, Latina/o media studies, death and violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, horror films

Janee Moses
Graduate Student

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

Emily Na
Graduate Student

naemily@umich.edu Fields of Study: African American literary and cultural production, gender and sexuality studies, Afrofuturism, and visual cultural studies

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

Lisa Nakamura
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

Pau Nava
Graduate Student Instructor

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.

Cecily Nobles
Student Services Assistant

cnobles@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall

Kate O'Connor
Graduate Student Instructor

kateoco@umich.edu Fields of study: Disability studies, institutionalization, medicine, and reproductive justice; youth and the family; gender, sexuality, and queer theory

Michael Pascual
Graduate Student

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

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

Alphonse Pitawanakwat
Lecturer

apitawan@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction
734.615.8896

Ava Purkiss
Assistant Professor

apurkiss@umich.edu Lane Hall

Fields of study: race, gender, and health
734.936.0717

Robert Ramaswamy
Graduate Student Instructor

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

Megan Rim
Graduate Student Instructor

meganrim@umich.edu

Yeidy Rivero
Professor

yrivero@umich.edu 3645 Haven Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285 734.615.4614

Cengiz Salman
Graduate Student

csalman@umich.edu Fields of Study: Digital Studies; Technology, innovation, and idealism; Planetary computation; Venture capital and private equity; Value and surplus; Critical theory

Xiomara Santamarina
Associate Professor

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

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.

Kyera Singleton
Graduate Student

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

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor Emerita

csmithro@umich.edu

Alexandra Minna Stern
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

Matthew Stiffler
Lecturer

mattws@umich.edu 3639 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
Arab American studies
734.647.9536

Amy Stillman
Professor
On Leave FA17 & WN18

akstill@umich.edu 3765 Haven Hall

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

Hanah Stiverson
Graduate Student Instructor

hanahsti@umich.edu Fields of study: Representations of race and gender in new media, Comic Studies, Film Studies

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

Vivian Truong
Graduate Student

vltruong@umich.edu Fields of Study: Asian American Studies, Urban History, Social Movements, Women of Color Feminisms, Public History, and Oral History

Alan Wald
H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus

awald@umich.edu 3271 Angell Hall

Fields of study:
20th-century U.S. cultural Left
734.995.1499

Kerry White
Graduate Student

kpwhite@umich.edu Fields of Study: transgender and other gender non-normative subjectivities in the Americas, particularly in the circum-Caribbean; ethnography; and queer of color critique

Mallory Whiteduck
Graduate Student Instructor

mwhited@umich.edu Fields of study: Native American Studies; Anishinabe kinship narratives and ontology; Native literature and literary theory; land, language and belonging

Kathleen Whiteley
Graduate Student

katcw@umich.edu 3504 Haven Hall

Fields of study: Native American Studies, Native American History, gender and women’s history

Michael Witgen
Associate Professor
On Leave WN18

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

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor
On Leave FA 17 & WN18

mzaborow@umich.edu 3743 Haven Hall

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

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