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
Associate Professor of Theater, Public Health Pathway Coordinator
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
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
Jeffrey Cole
Professor of Anthropology
North America and Europe • Food and Agriculture • Migration • Race and Ethnicity • Labor Markets
Karen Gonzalez Rice
Associate Professor 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, Director of Africana Studies
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,, 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, 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
Associate Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies
(On Sabbatical 2023-2024 Academic Year)
History of 20th century architecture • History of urban planning • Interwar avant-garde art and architecture
Larry Vogel
Brigida Pacchiani Ardenghi Professor of Philosophy
Ethics • Applied ethics • Phenomenology and existentialism
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