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The American Studies Program borrows its faculty from departments throughout the University. These faculty members are noteworthy for their intellectual breadth and their dedication to undergraduate education. Since its founding, the Program has drawn on the talents of dozens of different instructors from ten different humanities and social science departments in the College, as well as from the University's schools of Communication, Journalism, Law, Music, Education and Social Policy, and Engineering. Program faculty are regularly appear on the student-elected Honor Roll of best teachers on campus, and several have won prestigious College and University teaching awards.
2008-2009 Faculty
Kate Baldwin
Josef Barton
William Haarlow
Martin Redish
Julia Stern
Lawrence Stuelpnagel
James Wascher
Ivy Wilson
American Studies Program Teaching Faculty
KATE BALDWIN, Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of American Studies |
JOSEF BARTON, Associate Professor of U.S. Ethnic "immigration" and Labor history; Latin America |
NICOLA BEISEL, Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies |
KATHLEEN BELEW, Graduate Student in American Studies at Yale University |
JASON DeSANTO, Senior Lecturer of Communication and Law |
BRIAN EDWARDS, Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literary Studies & American Studies |
BETSY ERKKILA, Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature |
LANE FENRICH, Distinguished Senior Lecturer & WCAS Assistant Dean for Freshmen |
JAY GROSSMAN, Associate Professor of English |
WILLIAM HAARLOW, Director of College-Admission Relations and Undergraduate Research |
SUSAN MANNING, Professor of English & Theatre, Chair of English |
KATE MASUR, Assistant Professor of History |
SEAMUS O’DRISCOLL, Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literature |
SUSAN PEARSON, Assistant Professor of History |
MARTIN REDISH, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy |
MONICA RUSSEL Y RODRIGUEZ, Senior Lecturer of Anthropology & Interim Director for Latina and Latino Studies |
CARL SMITH, Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English & American Studies |
JULIA STERN, Associate Professor of English & American Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies |
LAWRENCE STUELPNAGEL, Assistant Professor, Clinical, Jour Editorial |
JAMES WASCHER, Attorney of Law |
IVY WILSON, Assistant Professor of English |
