People

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Associate Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23

drsuad@umich.edu 3527B Haven Hall,
734-936-5858

Fields of study:
race, Blackness, Black Islam, Black women's history, popular culture

Arab and Muslim American Studies; American Culture

Retika Adhikari
Assistant Professor

retika@umich.edu Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of study:
critical refugee studies, Asian American studies, multi-sited ethnography, humanitarianism, displacement, postindustrial United States, South Asian Borderlands

American Culture

Sigrid Anderson
Adjunct Lecturer

sigrid@umich.edu Haven Hall, 1045
Hatcher 209 North, 1190
734-615-6519

Fields of Study:
English and American literature, ethnic studies, social justice

American Culture

Sara Awartani
2022 LSA Collegiate Fellow

awartani@umich.edu 3651 Haven Hall

Fields of Study: transnational and comparative history, social movements, race and ethnicity, Latinx studies, Arab American studies, U.S. in the World

American Culture; Latina-o; Arab and Muslim American Studies

Stephen A. Berrey
Associate Professor
On Leave WN23

sberrey@umich.edu 3741 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-2936

Fields of Study:
race and culture, African American history, U.S. South, 20th-century United States, cultural history

American Culture

Glenesha Berryman
Graduate Student

gberrym@umich.edu Fields of study: Black feminisms, cultural studies, pop music studies, and the Obama era

American Culture

Melissa Borja
Assistant Professor

Mborja@umich.edu 3767 Haven Hall, 1045

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

American Culture

Loveleen Brar
Graduate Student

lbrar@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian American Studies, Migrant Labor, Critical Food Studies, and Women of Color Feminisms

American Culture

Michael Brier
Graduate Student

mbrier@umich.edu Fields of study: History of anti-discrimination law and colorblind rhetoric in the US; political technologies; intellectual history

American Culture

Dmitri Brown
Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

dmjbrown@umich.edu Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Study: history, science and Indigenous history and philosophy

American Culture; Native American Studies

Kathleen Brown
Graduate Student

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 3527c Haven Hall

American Culture

William Calvo-Quirós
Assistant Professor

wcalvo@umich.edu 3642 Haven Hall, 1045
734-647-3341

Fields of Study:
visual, material culture, and consumption studies;speculative fiction studies;Latina/o Chicana/o studies

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

Lorena Chambers
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History and American Culture

lorenac@umich.edu Fields of Study:
U.S. history 1865 - pesent, Borderlands history, intellectual and cultural history, race and ethnicity, gender studies and sexuality, politics and power, American West, public history, visual culture

American Culture; History

Henry Chen
Graduate Student

hechen@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian American history and culture; critical mixed race studies; and queer of color critique

American Culture

John Cheney-Lippold
Associate Professor; AC Associate Chair and Director of the Undergraduate Studies Program

jchl@umich.edu 3527G Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Study:
cultural studies, code and algorithm studies, future studies, surveillance, identity, privacy, critical theory, philosophy

American Culture

Juan Cole
Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History; Director of the Program in Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

jrcole@umich.edu 2527 Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Study: modern Middle East, Muslim South Asia, intellectual and cultural history, religion, history

American Culture; Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies; Center for South Asian Studies; Arab and Muslim American Studies

Jay Cook
Professor by Courtesy in American Culture

jwcook@umich.edu 1029 Tisch Hall, 1003
734-763-7860

Fields of Study:
19th-century cultural and intellectual, African American, popular/mass culture, visual culture, capitalism

American Culture

Clare Croft
Associate Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23

chcroft@umich.edu 3735 Haven Hall, 1045
734-764-4463

Fields of Study:
dance and performance studies, U.S. social movements, cultural policy, gender & sexuality, dramaturgy

American Culture

Manan Desai
Associate Professor; Director of the A/PIA Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

mrdesai@umich.edu 3749 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-2524

Fields of Study:
Literature, Asian American Studies, Popular Culture

American Culture

May Jean Dong
Academic Program Specialist

ac.curriculum@umich.edu 3725 Haven Hall 734-763-0031

American Culture

Gregory E. Dowd
Helen Hornbeck Tanner Collegiate Professor; LSA Associate Dean for the Humanities

humanitiesad@umich.edu Office of the Dean:
LSA 2256, 500 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1382
Executive Assistant: Stella Bublitz, bublitzs@umich.edu, 734-647-2115

Fields of Study:
Native American and Early American history

American Culture

Sena Duran
Graduate Student

sduran@umich.edu Fields of Study: Arab and Muslim American Studies; Film Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; Post/Decolonial Studies; Race, Gender, Sexuality and U.S. Film Industries

American Culture

Dejan Duric
PhD Candidate

duric@umich.edu

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 Emerita

jeson@umich.edu

American Culture

Anna Watkins Fisher
Associate Professor

annawfis@umich.edu 3640 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-2936

Fields of Study:
digital studies, media theory, performance studies, contemporary art, visual culture, feminist and queer studies, critical theory

American Culture

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Professor of American Culture and the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law

nimrod@umich.edu 314 Hutchins Hall

Fields of Study: Federal & tribal Indian law, Anishinaabe legal and political philosophy, administrative & Constitutional law, legal ethics.

American Culture; Native American Studies

Jonathan Freedman
Marvin Felheim Collegiate Professor Emeritus

zoid@umich.edu

American Culture

Mary Freiman
Executive Secretary

mlfr@umich.edu 3727 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

Kayla Gonyon
Lecturer I

kgonyon@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-8896

Fields of Study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction

American Culture

Judith Gray
Chief Administrator

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

American Culture

Colin Gunckel
Associate Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23

gunckel@umich.edu 3632 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-2935

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

American Culture

Sandra Gunning
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; AC Director of the Graduate Studies Program

amcult-dgs@umich.edu 4733 Haven Hall, 1045
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

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 Ann Hass
Professor

kah@umich.edu 3759 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-8869

Fields of Study:
Memorials, memory, material culture, cultural infrastructure, structures of inequity, race, and racism, U.S. cultural history and museum studies.

American Culture

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emerita

jmhoward@umich.edu 3058 Tisch Hall, 1003

Fields of Study:
novel and narrative; women's literature and culture in the United States from the mid-19th-century to the present; periodical history; genre studies; American studies; gender studies; cultural & social theory; disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and knowledge production

American Culture

Caroline Hsu
Graduate Student

cahsu@umich.edu Fields of study: media and cultural studies, Asian American studies, Internet and digital studies, film studies, contemporary literary fiction.

American Culture

Bethany Hughes
Assistant Professor

drbh@umich.edu 3664 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th and 20th century Native American representation, contemporary Indigenous performance
734.936.4374

American Culture

Melisa Hussain
Graduate Student

hmelisa@umich.edu Fields of study: Ethnographic Writing, Arab & Muslim American Studies, Media & Surveillance Studies, Representations of Visibly Muslim Women, Civil Rights & Social Activism, Race + Racialization of Muslim Americans, FBI/JTTF, Education Policy, Human Rights Violation.

American Culture

Roland Hwang
Lecturer I

hwangr@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall, 1045
(mobile) 925-586-4613

Fields of Study:
Asian/Pacific Islander American history, A/PIAs in the civil rights movement; A/PIA community activism

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

Luke Jacobson
Office Assistant

lukejac@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall, 505 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 734-763-1460

American Culture

Daniel Jin
Graduate Student

danjin@umich.edu Fields of study: urban history, small cities, Latina/o/x Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Asian American Studies, migration, race and ethnicity.

American Culture

Charlotte Juergens
Graduate Student

cejj@umich.edu Fields of study: Memory Studies, Public History, Oral History, Visual Culture, Material Culture, Museum Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Archives.

American Culture

Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Assistant Professor

charka@umich.edu 3634 Haven Hall, 1045
734-764-8363

Fields of Study:
Arab American studies, queer of color critique, interdisciplinary and historical methods, history of gender and sexuality, women of color and transnational feminisms

American Culture

Yarden Katz
Assistant Professor

yarden@umich.edu Haven Hall

Fields of Study: imperialism, white supremacy, and racial capitalism; science and technology studies; history and politics of biomedicine; eugenics and exploited labor in science; radical social movements

American Culture; Digital Studies

Leila Kawar
Associate Professor

lckawar@umich.edu Residential College: 1516 East Quad, 1245
734-647-4351

Fields of Study:
law and society; migration and migrant labor; transnational social movements; social, cultural, and institutional dynamics of legal systems

American Culture

Mary C. Kelley
Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23

mckelley@umich.edu 2672 Haven Hall, 1045
734-834-0903

Fields of Study:
American & women’s iIntellectual history, 19th-century women writers, American culture, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies

American Culture

Nancy A. Khalil
Assistant Professor

nancyak@umich.edu 3527A Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Study:
Muslims, politics, authority, racialization, advertising, ethnographic methods

American Culture

Michelle pruneah Kim
Graduate Student

pruneah@umich.edu Fields of study: Critical Food Studies, Critical Race Theory, Migrant Studies, and Diaspora Studies

American Culture

Yoon Kim
Graphic Designer

yoonjk@umich.edu

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

amcult.gc@umich.edu 3719 Haven Hall
734-647-9533

American Culture

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Professor and Chair of American Culture

amcult-chair@umich.edu 3703 Haven Hall, 1045
Chair's Office (voicemail only) 734-615-6473

FOR DEPARTMENTAL BUSINESS
email messages:
amcult-chair@umich.edu
Google calendar guest invitations:
lsa-ac-chair-calendar@umich.edu
Executive Assistant
Mary Freiman mlfr@umich.edu

Fields of Study:
American and ethnic studies, Latina/o studies, Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean studies, women’s, gender, & sexuality studies, lesbian, gay, & queer studies

American Culture; Department Administration

Scott Larson
Lecturer IV; AC Undergraduate Advisor

smlarson@umich.edu 3733 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-6474

Fields of Study:
18th- and 19th- century American cultural history; American religious cultures; disability studies; transgender history; women's, gender, & sexuality studies

American Culture; Arab and Muslim American Studies; Administration

Erin Leary
Graduate Student

lerinl@umich.edu Fields of study: Native American/ Indigenous studies; environmental/ climate humanities, science, and culture; Indigenous and environmental futurities; (de)colonial imaginations; place-making; literary and historical studies; visual culture

American Culture

Kyle Lindsey
Graduate Candidate

kylelind@umich.edu Fields of study: digital studies, black cultural studies, feminist and queer studies, cultural criticism

American Culture

Julianna Loera-Wiggins
Graduate Student Candidate

wigginsj@umich.edu Fields of study: Chicana/o/x Studies, Latina/o/x Studies; Performance Studies; Ethnography; Latina Feminist Phenomenology; Stand-up Comedy & Humor; Social Movements & Activism; Oral History & Testimonio

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, 1290
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

American Culture

Ashley Lucas
Professor; Director of the Program in Latina/o Studies and Undergraduate Advisor for the Major and Minor

lucasash@umich.edu Residential College: 1516 East Quad, 1245
734-763-1860

Fields of Study:
U.S. Latina/o theatre, prison-related theatre, theatre for social change, and related topics in acting, playwriting, and comparative ethnic studies

American Culture

Cherry Meyer
Assistant Professor

cherryme@umich.edu Haven Hall 3641
Lorch 453C

Fields of Study:
Ojibwe (Algonquian), morphology, semantics, noun categorization, gender, classifiers,language documentation, language typology, word order

American Culture

Alice Mishkin
Graduate Student

amishkin@umich.edu Fields of Study: Intersections of White supremacy, Zionism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia; Palestinian solidarity movements in the United States; Self-narrative and activist identity development

American Culture

Anthony P. Mora
Associate Professor by Courtesy in American Culture

apmora@umich.edu 2510 Haven Hall, 1045
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 sexuality

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, 1003
734-764-6345

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

American Culture

Lisa Nakamura
ON LEAVE 2023-2024 Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor

lnakamur@umich.edu 3527F 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

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

Hayley North
Student Services Assistant

haynorth@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall 734.763.1460

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

Wren Palmer
Graduate Student

wrengen@umich.edu

American Culture

Doo Jae Park
Lecturer I

doojae@umich.edu Haven Hall, 1045

Fields of Studies:
Race, Diaspora, Immigration, Identity Politics, Asian American Studies, Physical Cultural Studies

American Culture; Asian Pacific Islander American Studies

Silvia Pedraza
Professor

spedraza@umich.edu 4226 LSA, 1382
734-647-3659

Fields of Study:
international sociology; inequalities and stratification; politics and social change; qualitative approaches; race and ethnicity; sociology

American Culture

Chloe Perry
Graduate Student

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

American Culture

Alphonse Pitawanakwat
Lecturer

apitawan@umich.edu 3732 Haven Hall, 1045
734-615-8896

Fields of Study:
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) language instruction

American Culture

Anastazija Pomelov
Office Assistant

apomelov@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall, 505 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1045 734-763-1460

American Culture

Ava Purkiss
Assistant Professor
On Leave FA22 & WN23

apurkiss@umich.edu Lane Hall, 1290

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 by Courtesy in American Culture

yrivero@umich.edu 6330 North Quad, 1285
734-615-4614

Fields of study:
television studies, race and media,global media, Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African diaspora studies

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

Wesley Ruiz
Graduate Student

wruiz@umich.edu Fields of study: Queer and Trans Studies, Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Performance Studies.

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, 1045

Fields of Study:
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

Matthew Stiffler
Lecturer II

mattws@umich.edu 3639 Haven Hall, 1045
734-647-9536

Fields of Study:
Arab American studies

American Culture

Amy Stillman
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Director of the Native American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

akstill@umich.edu 3765 Haven Hall, 1045
734-763-5559

Fields of Study:
ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology

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

Giota Tachtara
Events & Communications Coordinator

tachtara@umich.edu 734 764 5322

American Culture; Comparative Literature

Aurelis Troncoso
Doctoral Candidate

aurelis@umich.edu Troncoso’s fields of study include intersectionalities of race, gender, (queer) sexuality, Afro-Latinidad in the Caribbean and the United States, transnational Black feminism, queer and trans theory, and African Diaspora religions. Her dissertation project focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ practitioners in Santería and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico and how practitioners negotiate race, nationality, queerness and transness within sacred spaces and beyond.

American Culture

Alan Wald
H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus

awald@umich.edu

American Culture

Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies; Assistant Professor of American Culture

walkerjk@umich.edu 4658 Haven Hall, 1045
734-763-5518

Fields of Study:
Black feminist theory, critical food studies, space and place

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

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor

mzaborow@umich.edu 3743 Haven Hall
734-615-8866

Fields of Study:
African American and American literary and cultural studies

American Culture

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