People

Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
Associate Professor; Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program and Undergraduate Advisor for the minor

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
On Leave FA19 & WN20

charka@umich.edu 3634 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

Sigrid Anderson
Lecturer I

sigrid@umich.edu

American Culture

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Sergio Barrera
Graduate Student Instructor

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

American Culture

Matthew Bellamy
Lecturer I

matbel@umich.edu

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: Black feminist thought, movement history, radical education praxis, Black cultural production, and the digital

American Culture

Melissa Borja
Assistant Professor

mborja@umich.edu 3657 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

Loveleen Brar
Graduate Student

lbrar@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian and South Asian American studies, race, religion, ethnicity, second generation narratives, diaspora politics, and community activism.

American Culture

Kathleen Brown
Graduate Student

kbrowns@umich.edu Fields of study: 20th-century literary radicalism, anti-imperialist modernism(s), race and gender in the Spanish Civil War, fascism and antifascism, transnational social movements, historical memory.

American Culture

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

American Culture

Casidy Campbell
Graduate Student

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Maria Eugenia Cotera
Associate Professor
Director of the Program in Latina/o Studies and 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

American Culture

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

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
Assistant Professor

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

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

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

American Culture

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

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

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
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall;Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045 734-615-6473

American Culture

Kyle Frisina
Graduate Student

kfrisina@umich.edu 3504 Haven Hall

Fields of study: 20th and 21st century American and African American literature, drama/performance, and visual culture; performance studies; queer and feminist studies

American Culture

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)

American Culture

Colin Gunckel
Associate Professor, AC Director of Graduate Studies

gunckel@umich.edu 3632 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

Sandra Gunning
Arthur F. Thurnau 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

American Culture

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

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

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Jenny Hong
Student Services Associate

hongiam@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall 734-763-1460

American Culture

June Howard
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

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

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Jallicia Jolly
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellow of American Studies and Black Studies (Amherst College)

jallicia@umich.edu Fields of study: Race, gender, sexuality and HIV/AIDS; Black feminist health science; transnational and women of color feminisms; ethnography and qualitative research methods.

American Culture

Meryem Kamil
Graduate Student

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

American Culture

Leila Kawar
Associate Professor
On Leave FA19 & WN20

lckawar@umich.edu B821 East Quad, Residential College

Fields of study: Law and Society
734.615.8430

American Culture

Mary C. Kelley
Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor
On Leave WN20

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
LSA Collegiate Fellow in American Culture

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 Gender and Sexuality Studies, Trans Studies, Queer of Color Critique, Visual Culture

American Culture

Katelynn Klemm
Events and Communications Coordinator

klemmkat@umich.edu 3700 Haven Hall 734.764.5322

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 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

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

Peggy Lee
Graduate Student

lepeggy@umich.edu Fields of study: Asian American cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; contemporary multi-ethnic literature and poetry; performance studies; sound studies; women of color feminism and queer of color critique; postcolonial studies; affect, emotion, and racial capitalism

American Culture

Kyle Lindsey
Graduate Student

kylelind@umich.edu

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

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

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

American Culture

James McIntosh
Professor Emeritus

jhmci@umich.edu 3722 Haven Hall

Fields of study:
19th-century American literature

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

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

American Culture

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 sexuality
734.615.5766

American Culture

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

American Culture

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

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 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.

American Culture

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

American Culture

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

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

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

apurkiss@umich.edu Lane Hall

Fields of study: race, gender, and health
734.936.0717

American Culture

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

American Culture

Andrew Reiter
Academic Program Specialist

anreiter@umich.edu 3725 Haven Hall 734.763.0031

American Culture

Megan Rim
Graduate Student Instructor

meganrim@umich.edu

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; Technology, innovation, and idealism; Planetary computation; Venture capital and private equity; Value and surplus; Critical theory

American Culture

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

American Culture

Ian Shin
Assistant Professor

ianshin@umich.edu 2640 Haven Hall

Fields of study: Asian American history, U.S. 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
Associate Dean for the Humanities - Academic Affairs - Office of the Dean, Professor of American Culture, Professor in History, Women's Studies, and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab

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 Instructor

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

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

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Jessica Kenyatta Walker
Collegiate Postdoc in American Culture

walkerjk@umich.edu 4658 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

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

American Culture

Kathleen Whiteley
Graduate Student

katcw@umich.edu 3504 Haven Hall

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

American Culture

Julianna Wiggins

wigginsj@umich.edu Fields of study: Chicana/o, Latina/o Studies and Literature, Oral History, institutional activism and mobilization, 20th Century US cultural history, social movements, women's, gender, and ethnic studies

American Culture

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

American Culture

Magdalena Zaborowska
Professor

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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