People

Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA18 & WN19

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 FA18

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.

Matthew Bellamy
Lecturer I

matbel@umich.edu

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor
On Leave WN19

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
On Leave FA18 & WN19

mborja@umich.edu 3657 Haven Hall

William Calvo-Quirós
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA18 & WN19

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
On Leave WN19

jchl@umich.edu 3527G Haven Hall

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

Jay Cook
Professor

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

Sigrid Cordell
Lecturer I

scordell@umich.edu

Maria Eugenia Cotera
Associate Professor
On Leave FA18 & WN19

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

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 and AC Director of Graduate Studies

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

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
On Leave

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 3727 Haven Hall
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

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

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.

Bethany Hughes
Assistant Professor

drbh@umich.edu 3664 Haven Hall

Roland Hwang
Lecturer I

hwangr@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall

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
On Leave WN19

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; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor WN19

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

Nancy A. Khalil
LSA Collegiate Fellow in American Culture

nancyak@umich.edu

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; Acting Director of Latina/o Studies and Undergraduate Advisor for the major and minor

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

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

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

Brittany Maugeri
Lecturer I

maugerib@umich.edu

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

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
On Leave WN19

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
On Leave WN19

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
On Leave FA18 & WN19

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

Ian Shin
Assistant Professor

ianshin@umich.edu 2640 Haven Hall

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

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

Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Collegiate Postdoc in American Culture

walkerjk@umich.edu 4658 Haven Hall 734-763-5518

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; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

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

mzaborow@umich.edu 3743 Haven Hall

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

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