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Publications by American Studies Alumni

Lucy San Pablo Burns, Ph.D. 2004: Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Puro Arte: Filipinos on the States of Empire (New York University Press, 2012; Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award in Cultural Studies, Association for Asian American Studies)

Anna Creadick, Ph.D. 2002: Associate Professor of English, Hobart and William Smith College
Perfectly Average: The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010).

Nancy Frazier, Ph.D. 2004: Founding editor, Hampshire Life, a weekly of the Daily Hampshire Gazette
I, Lobster: A Crustacean Odyssey (University Press of New England, 2012).

Chris Hanlon, Ph.D. 2001: Professor of English, Eastern Illinois University
America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Robert Hayashi, Ph.D. 2002: Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Amherst College
Haunted by Waters: A Journey through Race and Place in the American West (University of Iowa Press, 2007).

Cathy Schlund-Vials, Ph.D. 2006: Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Modeling Citizenship: Naturalization in Jewish and Asian American Writing (Temple University Press, 2011).
War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).
Disability, Human Rights and the Limits of Humanitarianism, co-edited with Michael Gill (Ashgate Publishing, 2014).
Keywords in Asian American Studies, co-edited with Linda Trinh Võ and K. Scott Wong (New York University Press, 2015).

Chris Vials, Ph.D. 2006: Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1933-1947 (University Press of Mississippi, 2009).
Haunted by Hitler: Liberals, the Left, and the Fight Against Fascism in the United States (University of Massachusetts Press, 2014).

American Studies Faculty

*Affiliate faculty

  • Chris Appy, History*
  • Stephen Arons, Legal Studies*
  • Joyce Berkman, History*
  • John Bracey, Afro-American Studies*
  • Laura Briggs, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies*
  • Nicholas Bromell, English
  • Julio Capo, History*
  • Donal Carbaugh, Communication*
  • Mari Castañeda, Communication*
  • Dingo, Rebecca, English
  • Laura Doyle, English
  • Jennifer Fronc, History*
  • Laura Furlan, English 
  • David Glassberg, History*
  • Lisa Henderson, Communication*
  • Ruth Jennison, English 
  • A. Yemisi Jimoh, Afro-American Studies* 
  • Laura Lovett, History 
  • Mason Lowance, English
  • Randall Knoper, English
  • Barbara Krauthamer, History*
  • Luis Marentes, Spanish & Portuguese *
  • Marla Miller, History* 
  • Agustin Lao Montes, Sociology* 
  • Rachel Mordecai, English
  • Asha Nadkarni, English 
  • Mazen Naous, English
  • William Oedel, Art History*
  • Max Page, Art History* 
  • Robert Paynter, Anthropology* 
  • Hoang Phan, English
  • Emily Redman, History*
  • Sam Redman, History*
  • Britt Russert, Afro-American Studies*
  • TreaAndrea Russworm, English 
  • Daniel Sack, English
  • Elizabeth Sharrow, Political Science and History*
  • Shawn Shimpach, Communications*
  • James Smethhurst, Afro-American Studies* 
  • Steven C. Tracy, Afro-American Studies* 
  • Ron Welburn, English
  • Caroline Yang, English