Michelle Neely
Associate Professor of English, Director of American Studies
American literature to 1900 • American Studies • African American Literature • Environmental Humanities • Food Studies • Animal Studies • Feminist Theory
Virginia Anderson
Professor of Theater, Interim Director of the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy
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
Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Human Development, Chair of the Department of Human Development
Identity Formation In Global, Local and Transnational Cultural Practices • 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, Public Health Coordinator
Law and Society • Critical Childhood • Sociology of Health
Jeffrey Cole
Professor of Anthropology
North America and Europe • Food and Agriculture • Migration • Race and Ethnicity • Labor Markets
Hubert Cook
Assistant Professor of English
Black studies • African American and Caribbean literature and culture • Black sentience • Narrative theory • Affect studies • Gender studies
Leo J. Garofalo
Virginia Eason Weinmann '51 Professor of History, Social Justice and Sustainability Pathway Coordinator
Latin American and Caribbean history • The history of race and ethnicity • African diaspora and Afro-Latin America • Peru and the Andes
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Professor of Art History
(ON LEAVE ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-26)
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
Isaac Gottesman
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair
History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present • Critical Theories of Education • History of Education as an Academic Field of Study
Andrew Greenwald
Associate Professor of Music
Music Theory • Composition • Algorithmic Music • Hip-Hop • Rock and Roll • American Music • Experimental Music • Electronic Music, Intermedia, Jazz
Karen Buenavista Hanna
Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
Social Movements • Filipinx Studies • Women of Color and Transnational Feminism • Diaspora Studies • Disability Justice • Queer of Color Critique • Radical Pedagogy • Decolonial Praxis
Cherise A. Harris
Professor of Sociology
Race, class and gender • Marriage and the family • Social psychology
Yibing Huang
Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art, and culture • Modernism and postmodernism • Chinese American literature and art • Indigenous poetics and global modernity • Cultural translations between Chinese and American poetry
Kris Klein Hernández
Assistant Professor of History
(Sabbatical Fall 2025)
Borderlands History • Comparative Ethnic Studies • U.S. History • Comparative Racialization
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, Director of American Studies
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, Chair of the Department of Dance
(Chair of the Department of Dance)
Body, knowledge, power and difference • Dance studies • Intersection of arts and social justice in education • Social psychology of performance and dance
Ariella R. Rotramel
Vandana Shiva Associate Professor of Gender Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
Social movements • Gender and women's history • Women and work • Ethnic studies • Queer and sexuality studies • Feminist praxis • Community-based learning • Digital Humanities
Jennifer L. Rudolph
Associate Professor of Sociology
Latino cultural studies • Critical race theory • Masculinity theory
C. Mara Suttmann-Lea
Associate Professor of Government
American politics • Election administration • Voting reforms • Political campaigns • Political participation
Anna Vallye
Associate 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
Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department
Ethnomusicology • Jazz Composition • Guangdong ritual and ritual music • Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism