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Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Maria Cristina Garcia Professor of History/Latino Studies (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)  
Office:M101E McGraw Hall
Telephone:255-4506, 255-0097
Contact: mcg20@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest: U.S. Latina/o history; immigration, folklore.
American Studies Faculty:
Glenn C. AltschulerThe Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session (Ph.D., Cornell University)  
Office:B20 Day Hall  
Telephone:255-4987  
Contact:gca1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American culture, American politics, American popular culture, history of education in America.  
Edward H. BaptistAssociate Professor of History (Ph.D. U of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia)  
Office:320 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-1881  
Contact:eeb36@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:U.S. political and 19th century American history.  
Richard F. BenselProfessor of Government (Ph.D. Cornell University)  
Office:312 White Hall  
Telephone:255-6763  
Contact:rfb2@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American political development; political economy, state theory.  
Mary P. BradyAssociate Professor of English (Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles)
Office:286 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone:255-9315
Contact:mpb23@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:U.S. Latino and Latina literatures and cultures; cultural studies, American multi-ethnic literatures.  
Derek ChangAssociate Professor of History (Ph.D. Duke University)  
Office:454 McGraw Halll  
Telephone:255-3705  
Contact:dsc37@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Asian American, African American, and 19th Century U.S. history; U.S. race relations; American religion.  
Eric T. CheyfitzErnest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins U.)
Office:157 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone:255-3546
Contact:etc7@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:American literatures, federal Indian law.
Jefferson CowieAssociate Professor of Industrial Labor Relations (Ph.D. University of North Carolina)
Office:371 Ives Hall  
Telephone:255-7097  
Contact:jrc32@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Postwar U.S. history, work and social class, class and popular culture, organized labor, globalization.  
Jason FrankAssistant Professor of Government (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University)  
Office:307 White Hall  
Telephone:255-6759  
Contact:jf273@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Modern and contemporary political theory; American political thought; democratic theory; political culture.  
J. Ellen GainorProfessor of Theater; Associate Dean of the Graduate School (Ph.D. Princeton U.)  
Office:350 Caldwell Hall  
Telephone:255-7374  
Contact:jeg11@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American Drama and Theatre; Women and Theatre.  
Maria Cristina GarciaProfessor of History (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)  
Office:455 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-6598  
Contact:mcg20@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:U.S. Latina/o history; immigration, folklore.  
Frederic GleachSenior Lecturer (half-time) and Curator of the Anthropology Collections (Ph.D., University of Chicago)
Office:163 McGraw Hall
Telephone:254-8688
Contact:fwg1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:Native North America, Puerto Rico and Cuba; textual, material and visual culture; tourism; history of American anthropology.
Sabine Haenni Associate Professor of American Studies/Theater, Film and Dance (Ph.D. University of Chicago)
Office:431 Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Telephone:254-2726
Contact:sh322@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:American cinema; silent film; mass culture; cinema in the context of other media (including theater); theories of race and ethnicity; immigrant cultures, urban studies.
Andrea HammerSenior Lecturer of Landscape Architecture (Ph.D University of California at Davis)  
Office:l 456 Kennedy Hal
Telephone:255-7195
Contact:sh322@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:
Robert HarrisProfessor of Africana Studies & Research Center (Ph.D. Northwestern University)  
Office:310 Triphammer Road  
Telephone:255-4625  
Contact:rlh10@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:African American History; Historiography, Thought and Culture, Leaders and Movements.  
Michael Jones-CorreaProfessor of Government (Ph.D. Princeton University)
Office:305 White Hall  
Telephone:255-3170  
Contact:mj64@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:immigration, race and ethnic politics, urban politics, and political participation.  
Kurt A. JordanAssistant Professor of Anthropology and American Indidan Studies (Ph.D. Columbia University)  
Office:210 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-3109  
Contact:kj21@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American Indian archaeology, especially Iroquois; Historical archaeology; Colonialism and cultural entanglement.  
Karim-Aly KassamAssociate Professor of American Indain Program/Natural Resources (Ph.D. Cornell University)  
Office: 8A Fernow hall  
Telephone: 255-9757  
Contact: ksk28@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:   
Mary KatzensteinStephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Government (Ph.D. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)  
Office:214 White Hall  
Telephone:255-8965  
Contact:mgk5@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Bridging comparative and American politics and largely focus on politics in India, gender issues, and the subject of incarceration and race.  
Jonathan KirshnerProfessor of Government (Ph.D Princeton University)  
Office:323 White Hall  
Telephone:255-4120  
Contact:mgk5@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:International relations, international political economy, political economy and national security.  
Ronald KlineBovay Professor in History and Ethics of Professional Engineering (Ph.D. U. of Wisconsin)  
Office:394 Rhodes Hall  
Telephone:255-4307  
Contact:rkk1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:History of technology; social history of "urbanizing" technologies in rural life; historical relationship between science and technology; history of the engineering profession and industrial research in the United States.  
Isaac KramnickRichard J. Schwartz Professor of Government (Ph.D. Harvard University)  
Office:433 Day Hall  
Telephone:255-9151  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to present.  
Clement LaiAssistant Professor of City and Regional Planning (Ph.D. U. of California, Berkeley)  
Office:317 Sibley Hall  
Telephone:254-6540  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:  
Fredrik LogevallProfessor of History (Ph.D Yale University)  
Office:348 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-4-4311  
Contact:fl57@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American foreign policy.  
Theodore J. LowiJohn L. Senior Professor of American Institutions (Ph.D. Yale University)
Office:115 White Hall
Telephone:255-6205
Contact:tjl7@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:American government and politics. Public policy and administration.
Barry MaxwellSenior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and American Studies (Ph.D. Stanford University)  
Office:143 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-5798  
Contact:bhm4@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:19th and 20th century American literature and culture; hemispheric American Studies; jazz; critical theory, particularly that of Kenneth Burke, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht; relations of anarchism, Marxism, and literature.  
Kate McCulloughAssociate Professor of English (Ph.D. U. of California at Berkely)  
Office:288 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-6796  
Contact:mkm23@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American literature after 1865; women's literature; feminist literary criticism and theory; lesbian/queer theory.  
Laura L. MeixnerAssociate Professor of History of Art (Ph.D. The Ohio State University)  
Office:GM07 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-7079  
Contact:llm4@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:19th century French-American cross-cultural influences; American labor culture and images of labor; art and consumerism; the art market and speculation.  
Ronald L. MizeAssistant Professor of Development Sociology and Latino Studies (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Office:320 Warren Hall
Telephone:255-2024
Contact:rlm65@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:Sociology of Latino/a-Chicano/a studies; critical migration studies; comparative race and ethnic relations; community sociology; political economy; cultural studies; social theory
R. Laurence MooreHoward A. Newman Professor of American Studies (Ph.D. Yale University)
Office:134 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-6750  
Contact:rlm8@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American intellectual, cultural, and religious history.  
Victor NeeGoldwin Smith Professor of Sociology (Ph.D. Harvard University)  
Office:330 Uris Hall  
Telephone:255-1415  
Contact:vgn1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Theory; economic sociology, stratification/inequality; immigration and race; transitions from State socialism.  
Mary Beth NortonMary Donlon Alger Professor of American History and History, (Ph.D. Harvard University)  
Office:325 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-7542  
Contact:mbn1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American history, 1760-1850: social, political and constitutional; history of women in America.  
Jon Parmenter Associate Professor of History (Ph.D. U. of Michigan)  
Office:304 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-1876  
Contact:jwp35@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Native American (esp. Iroquois) and early American history.  
Richard PolenbergGoldwin Smith Professor of American History (Ph.D. Columbia University)  
Office:136 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-6741  
Contact:rp19@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Modern American political and social history.  
Steven Pond Associate Professor of Music (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)
Office:120 Lincoln Hall  
Telephone:255-2916  
Contact:sfp8@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:World music; popular music; jazz.  
Margaret Rossiter Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science and Science & Technology Studies (Ph.D. Yale University)  
Office: 331 Rockefeller Hall  
Telephone: 255-2545  
Contact: mwr4@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: 19th and 20th century American science, especially agricultural sciences and women in science.  
Aaron SachsAssistant Professor of History  
Office:364 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-1978  
Contact:as475@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American culture.  
Nick SalvatoreMaurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial Labor Relations and American Studies (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)  
Office:369 Ives Hall; M101D McGraw Hall
Telephone:255-2240 or 255-5412
Contact:nas4@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:American social history, 19th & 20th centuries.
Shirley SamuelsProfessor of English (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)  
Office:141 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-4895  
Contact:srs8@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American literature and culture; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American fiction; feminist criticism, American studies.  
M. Elizabeth SandersProfessor of Government (Ph.D. Cornell University)  
Office:314 White Hall  
Telephone:255-2305  
Contact:mes14@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Political development, social movements, regulations.  
Vilma Santiago-IrizarryAssociate Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies (Ph.D. New York University)  
Office:212 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-6773  
Contact:vs23@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Ethnicity; language, institutional culture, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, urban anthropology, Latino cultures.  
Martin A. ShefterProfessor of Government (Ph.D. Harvard University)
Office:211 White Hall
Telephone:255-6767
Contact:mas34@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:Urban politics; American political development; American political institutions.
Anna Marie SmithProfessor of Government (Ph.D. U. of Essex [England])  
Office:309 White Hall Hall  
Telephone:255-2708  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Studying theoretical approaches to the regulation of sexuality; feminist legal theory and feminist theory in general; critical race theory; ideology and discourse analysis; social theories of identity and power relations; and Marxist and post-Marxist theory.  
Sofia VillenasAssociate Professor of Education (Ph.D. U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.)  
Office:419 Kennedy Hall  
Telephone:254-5263  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:educational anthropology; Latino education; issues in multiculturalism, language, and the social/political context of schooling.  
Margaret WashingtonProfessor of History (Ph.D. University of California at Davis)  
Office:305 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-6746  
Contact:mw26@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:African American cultrual/intellectual/religious, gender, American South.  
Sunn Shelley WongAssociate Professor of Asian American Studies and English (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)  
Office:282 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-8055  
Contact:ssw6@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures; Asian Canadian literature; cultural studies.  
Mary Woods Professor of Architecture (Ph.D. Columbia University)  
Office:121 C Rand Hall  
Telephone:255-6416  
Contact:mnw5@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:History of Architecture and Urbanism; history of architectural practice and profession; history of photography and film as they intersect with architecture and urbanism; 19th and 20th century European and American architecture and urbanism.  
Dagmawi WoubshetAssistant Professor of English (Ph.D. Harvard University)  
Office:341 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-9546  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:African American Literature; Ethiopian Poesis; Queer Studies; AIDS and Narratives of Loss; 1980s; Contemporary African and African-American Visual Culture.  
Professor EmeritusS.M. Blumin, J. Brumberg, M. Kammen, D. McCall, S. Silbey, S. C. Strout  
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