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
Migration and border reinforcement • Anthropology of gardens and landscape • Health inequalities • Areas of interest: Haiti, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, European overseas territories
Sunil Bhatia
Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Human Development 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 • Crime, drugs and society • Punishment and its consequences • Families and parenthood • Childhood and adolescence • Youth peer culture
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
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
Sandy Grande
Professor of Education, Director of the Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
(On sabbatical, Fall 2018)
Native American/Indigenous education • Critical Indigenous theory
Anna Vallye
Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant garde art and architecture
James Dale Wilson
Associate Professor of Music, Ethnomusicologist, Jazz Composer/Arranger
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