Research

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).

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American Studies 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, Africo-American Studies*  Steven C. Tracy, Afro-American Studies*  Ron Welburn, English Caroline Yang, English   *Affiliate Faculty