Virginia Anderson
Associate Professor of Theater
The AIDS Epidemic in Theater and Film • Theater History • Musical Theater • Theater and Social Change • Theater for Young Audiences • Dramaturgy • Performance Studies
Catherine Benoit
Professor of Anthropology
Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories, Union of Comoros, Mayotte • Necropolitics, borders, (im)mobilities, maritime cemeteries • Garden and Landscape studies
Sunil Bhatia
Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Human Development Department Acting Chair of the Education Department
Racial, ethnic and migrant identity in global and transnational cultures • Cultural psychology and narrative theory • Ethnography and qualitative methods
MaryAnne Borrelli
Susan Eckert Lynch '62 Professor of Government
United States politics and government • Gender and United States politics • The Presidency • Congress
Ana Lilia Campos Manzo
Associate Professor of Sociology
Law and Society • Critical Childhood • Sociology of Health
David Canton
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Africana Studies Program
20th-Century American social history • Civil rights movement • Urban history • Hip Hop music and Black culture in post-industrial America
Jeffrey Cole
Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Anthropology
Food and agriculture • Migration • Race and ethnicity
Michelle R. Dunlap
Professor of Human Development
IMPROVING COLLEGE STUDENT COPING AND SKILLS IN COMMUNITY SERVICE LEARNING SETTINGS • SHOPPING WHILE BLACK, MINORITY EXPERIENCES IN CONSUMER MARKETPLACES, BLACK BODIES IN PUBLIC SPACES • CONTEMPORARY FAMILY ISSUES (E.G. SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES, KINSHIP CARE FAMILIES), SOCIAL AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT • MULTICULTURAL ISSUES, RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, AND METHODS FOR INCREASING SERVICE PROVIDER CULTURAL COMPETENCY
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of Art History
Contemporary art (1945-present) • Experimental art • Performance studies • Contemporary art and the body • American studies; contemporary art in America • Religion in contemporary art • Trauma studies • Art and ethics
Cherise A. Harris
Associate Professor of Sociology
Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology
Catherine McNicol Stock
Barbara Zaccheo Kohn '72 Professor of History
Rural radicalism, domestic terrorism • Social, cultural and political history of the United States, 1877 to present, including the American West • Rural America • The Great Depression and the New Deal
Michelle Neely
Associate Professor of English
American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory
Julie Rivkin
Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies , Professor of English
American literature • Gender studies and contemporary literature • Literary theory • Henry James
Rosemarie Roberts
Dayton Professor of Dance, Bodies/Embodiment Pathway Coordinator
Body, knowledge, power and difference • Dance studies • Intersection of arts and social justice in education • Social psychology of performance and dance
Anna Vallye
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
(On Sabbatical: Fall 2020 - Fall 2021)
History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture
James Dale Wilson
Associate Professor of Music
Ethnomusicology • Jazz • Guangdong ritual and ritual music • Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism
George J. Willauer
Professor of English Emeritus , Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of American Studies Emeritus
American literature and literary figures, 1890-present • William Faulkner • Emily Dickinson • Robert Frost • Society of Friends