Unit Director
Monica Trieu- Unit Director of African American Studies, American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latin American & Latino Studies, and Native American & Indigenous Studies
[Please note that names with an * indicate that the faculty member is currently accepting students.]
Core Faculty
*Cheryl Cooky // School of Interdisciplinary Studies Professor // Research Focus: Gender, Sport, Media, American Culture, feminist theories and methodologies
*Monica Trieu // School of Interdisciplinary Studies Professor // Research Focus: Immigration, Transnational American Studies, Asian American Studies, Race
Affiliated Faculty
*David Atkinson // History // Research Focus: U.S. Foreign Relations history; The U.S. and the World; Migration history
*Jake Burdick // Curriculum and Instruction // Research Focus: Curriculum theory, social theory, informal spaces of education
*Risa Cromer // Anthropology // Research Focus: Reproductive politics, US
Jennifer Freeman Marshall // School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Stacy E. Holden // History // Research Focus: American literature on broadly constructed Islamic East
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler // Rueff School // Research Focus: Design history, history of technology, disability studies, labor history, business history
*Cara Kinnally // Spanish // Research Focus: Latinx Literature and Culture, Latin American Literature and Culture, Borderlands Studies
Alfred J. López // History // Research Focus: Global South & postcolonial studies; Cuban & Cuban-American studies; Latin American & Caribbean studies
Christopher Lukasik // English // Research Focus: American literature; visual studied and theory; American cultural history to 1900
*Stephanie Masta // Curriculum and Instruction // Research Focus: Indigenous contexts, qualitative research, race and racism in education
*Shannon McMullen // Rueff School // Research Focus: New media, new media art, visual/material culture, media archaeology
Kali Rubaii // Anthropology // Research Focus: Military supply chains, ecologies of war, Middle East, environmental health
*Ronald J. Stephens // School of Interdisciplinary Studies // Research Focus: Black Leisure and Recreation, Civil Rights and Black Power Studies, and African American Biography
Maurice Tetne // School of Interdisciplinary Studies // Research Focus: African American history and culture, and Francophone Louisiana literature and culture
Graduate Coordinator
Aimee Mansfield // Graduate Coordinator
Graduate Students
Araba Fobin Dennis //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
Carina Olaru //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
David Williams Tortolini //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
Jehan M Mullin //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
Juanita M Crider //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
Kadari N Taylor-Watson //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
Michelle Tran //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS
William P Caise //Graduate Student // American Studies // SIS