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
Nancy Lewandowski
Academic Department Assistant
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