| Glenn C. Altschuler | The Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session (Ph.D., Cornell University) |
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| Office: | B20 Day Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-4987 |
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| Contact: | gca1@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | American culture, American politics, American popular culture, history of education in America. |
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| Edward H. Baptist |
Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia) |
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| Office: |
433 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-1881 |
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| Contact: | eeb36@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
history of slavery, 19th century U.S. history. |
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| Richard F. Bensel |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., Cornell University) |
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| Office: | 312 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6763 |
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| Contact: | rfb2@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
American political development; political economy, state theory, political culture. |
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| Mary P. Brady |
Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles) |
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| Office: | 286 Goldwin Smith Hall |
| Telephone: |
255-7566 |
| Contact: | mpb23@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | U.S. Latino and Latina literatures and cultures; cultural studies, American multi-ethnic literatures. |
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| Derek Chang | Associate Professor of History (Ph.D. Duke University) |
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| Office: |
454 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-3705 |
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| Contact: | dsc37@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | Asian American, African American, and 19th Century U.S. history; U.S. race relations; American religion. |
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| Eric T. Cheyfitz |
Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) |
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| Office: | 157 Goldwin Smith Hall |
| Telephone: | 255-3546 |
| Contact: | etc7@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | American literatures, federal Indian law. |
| Jefferson Cowie |
Associate Professor of History, ILR (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) |
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| Office: | 371 Ives Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-7097 |
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| Contact: | jrc32@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | Postwar U.S. history, work and social class, class and popular culture, organized labor, globalization. |
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| Jason Frank |
the Gary S. Davis Associate Professor in the History of Political Thought (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) |
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| Office: | 307 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6759 |
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| Contact: | jf273@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | Modern and contemporary political theory; American political thought; democratic theory; political culture. |
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| J. Ellen Gainor |
Professor of Theater; Associate Dean of the Graduate School (Ph.D., Princeton University) |
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| Office: | 350 Caldwell Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-7374 |
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| Contact: | jeg11@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | American Drama and Theatre; Women and Theatre. |
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| Maria Cristina Garcia |
Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) |
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| Office: | 455 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6598 |
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| Contact: | mcg20@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
North American refugee/immigration policy; U.S. Latino history; migration in the Americas. |
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| Frederic Gleach |
Senior Lecturer and Curator of the Anthropology Collections (Ph.D., University of Chicago) |
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| Office: | 163 McGraw Hall |
| Telephone: | 254-8688 |
| Contact: | fwg1@cornell.edu
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| 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) |
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| Office: | 431 Schwartz Center for Performing Arts |
| Telephone: | 254-2726 |
| Contact: | sh322@cornell.edu
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| 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 Hammer |
Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture (Ph.D., University of California at Davis) |
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| Office:l | 456 Kennedy Hall |
| Telephone: | 255-7195 |
| Contact: |
agh24@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
literature, oral history, landscape studies, photography and audio recording. |
| Robert Harris | Professor of Africana Studies & Research Center (Ph.D. Northwestern University) |
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| Office: | 310 Triphammer Road |
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| Telephone: |
255-8536 |
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| Contact: | rlh10@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | African American History; Historiography, Thought and Culture, Leaders and Movements. |
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| Louis R. Hyman | Assistant Professor ILR, Labor Relations, Law, and History (Ph.D. Harvard University) |
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| Office: | 356 Ives Hall |
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| Telephone: 5-5831 |
255-8536 |
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| Contact: | lrh62@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | history of capitalism in the United States. Current research is on the rise of temporary labor in the postwar United States and its effects on the organization of American business. |
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| Michael Jones-Correa |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., Princeton University) |
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| Office: | 305 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-3170 |
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| Contact: | mj64@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | immigration, race and ethnic politics, urban politics, and political participation. |
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| Kurt A. Jordan |
Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies (Ph.D., Columbia University) |
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| Office: | 210 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-3109 |
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| Contact: | kj21@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
American Indian archaeology, especially Iroquois; Historical archaeology; Colonialism, Cultural entanglement, and Indigenous autonomy. |
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| Karim-Aly Kassam |
International Associate Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies, Department of Natural Resources & the American Indian Program (Ph.D., Cornell University) |
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| Office: |
8A Fernow Hall |
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| Telephone: |
255-9757 |
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| Contact: |
ksk28@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
Arctic social science; linkage between biological and cultural diversity; indigenous cultures and social change; climate change and its impacts; community economic development; food security and food sovereignty, gender analysis; human ecology; indigenous knowledge (ways of knowing); indigenous land and marine use; natural resource policy and management; Participatory action research; social history of Muslim societies , and pluralism. |
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| Mary Fainsod Katzenstein |
Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Government (Ph.D., Massachusetts Inst. of Technology) |
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| Office: |
319 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-8965 |
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| Contact: |
mfk2@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
incarceration, race, gender, social movements in comparative and American politics. |
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| Jonathan Kirshner |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., Princeton University) |
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| Office: | 323 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-4120 |
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| Contact: |
jdk5@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
International Relations, money and finance, political economy and national security, politics and film. |
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| Ronald Kline |
Bovay Professor in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) |
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| Office: | 394 Rhodes Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-4307 |
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| Contact: | rkk1@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
History of technology; history of cybernetics; 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. |
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| Isaac Kramnick |
Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government (Ph.D., Harvard University) |
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| Office: |
311 White Hall |
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| Telephone: |
255-9175 |
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| Contact: | ik15@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to present. |
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| Clement Lai |
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Asian American Studies (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) |
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| Office: |
317 West Sibley Hall |
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| Telephone: | 254-6540 |
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| Contact: |
CKL28@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: |
Race and space, social movements, multiracial politics, property, and anti-globalization struggles. |
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| Fredrik Logevall |
Professor of History; Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies (Ph.D., Yale University) |
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| Office: |
343 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: |
254-4311 or 255-8927 |
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| Contact: |
FL57@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | American foreign policy. |
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| Theodore J. Lowi |
John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions (Ph.D., Yale University) |
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| Office: | 115 White Hall |
| Telephone: | 255-6205 |
| Contact: |
TJL7@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | American government and politics. Public policy and administration. |
| Barry Maxwell |
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature and American Studies (Ph.D., Stanford University) |
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| Office: | 143 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-5798 |
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| Contact: | bhm4@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| 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. |
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| Kate McCullough |
Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) |
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| Office: | 288 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6796 |
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| Contact: | mkm23@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
U.S. literature after 1865; 20th and 21st century U.S. literature; women's literature; race and ethnicity in U.S. fiction; feminist theory; queer theory; diaspora studies. |
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| Laura L. Meixner |
Associate Professor of History of Art (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) |
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| Office: | GM07 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-7079 |
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| Contact: | llm4@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
popular and mass culture including caricatures, political cartoons, photography. Also art and the marketplace as well as consumer culture and its by-products including photojournalism (Life, Look), film, advertising, fashion, comics, and early TV sitcoms. |
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| Ronald L. Mize |
Assistant Professor of Development Sociology and Latino Studies (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
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| Office: |
341 Warren Hall |
| Telephone: | 255-2024 |
| Contact: | rlm65@cornell.edu
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| 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. |
| Victor Nee |
Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology (Ph.D., Harvard University) |
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| Office: | 330 Uris Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-1415 |
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| Contact: | vgn1@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | Theory; economic sociology, stratification/inequality; immigration and race; transitions from State socialism. |
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| Mary Beth Norton |
Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History and History, (Ph.D., Harvard University) |
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| Office: | 325 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-7542 |
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| Contact: | mbn1@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
American history, 1607-1800: social, intellectual, legal and political; women and gender in Anglo-America. |
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| Jon Parmenter |
Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Michigan) |
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| Office: |
452 McGraw Hall |
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| Contact: | jwp35@cornell.edu
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| Areas of Interest: | Native American (esp. Iroquois) and early American history. |
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| Richard Polenberg |
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History (Ph.D., Columbia University) |
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| Office: | 136 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6741 |
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| Contact: | rp19@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | Modern American political and social history. |
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| Steven Pond |
Associate Professor of Music (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) |
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| Office: | 120 Lincoln Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-2916 |
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| Contact: | sfp8@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | World music; popular music; jazz. |
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| Margaret Rossiter |
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science and Science & Technology Studies (Ph.D., Yale University) |
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| Office: |
331 Rockefeller Hall |
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| Telephone: |
255-2545 |
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| Contact: |
mwr4@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
19th and 20th century American science, especially agricultural sciences and women in science. |
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| Aaron Sachs |
Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Yale University) |
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| Office: |
350 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-1978 |
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| Contact: | as475@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
American culture, environmental studies. |
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| Nick Salvatore |
Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) |
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| 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 Samuels |
Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) |
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| Office: |
257 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: |
255-3994 |
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| Contact: | srs8@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | American literature and culture; eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American fiction; feminist criticism, American studies. |
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| M. Elizabeth Sanders |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., Cornell University) |
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| Office: | 314 White Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-2305 |
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| Contact: | mes14@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
American political development, social movements, economic regulation, foreign policy, national government institutions (especially the presidency and bureaucracy). |
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| Vilma Santiago-Irizarry |
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies (Ph.D., New York University) |
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| Office: | 212 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6773 |
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| Contact: | vs23@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
Ethnoracial identity; language, institutional culture, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, urban anthropology, Latino cultures. |
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| Martin A. Shefter |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., Harvard University) |
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| 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 Smith |
Professor of Government (Ph.D., U. of Essex [England]) |
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| Office: | 309 White Hall Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-2708 |
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| Contact: |
ams3@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
Jurisprudence and normative political theory; distributive justice and socioeconomic rights; public policy: education, poverty assistance; feminist theory and feminist legal studies; critical race theory; the rhetoric of modern State power and citizenship. |
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| Sofia Villenas |
Director, Latino Studies and Associate Professor of Education/Latino Studies(Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.) |
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| Office: | 419 Kennedy Hall |
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| Telephone: | 254-5263 |
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| Contact: |
sav33@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | educational anthropology; Latino education; issues in multiculturalism, language, and the social/political context of schooling. |
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| Margaret Washington |
Professor of History (Ph.D., University of California at Davis) |
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| Office: | 305 McGraw Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6746 |
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| Contact: | mw26@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: |
African American cultural/intellectual/religious, gender, American South. |
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| Sunn Shelley Wong |
Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) |
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| Office: | 282 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-9310 |
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| Contact: | ssw6@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures; Asian Canadian literature; cultural studies. |
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| Mary Woods |
Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory (Ph.D., Columbia University) |
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| Office: |
121C Rand Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-6416 |
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| Contact: | mnw5@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| 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. |
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| Dagmawi Woubshet |
Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., Harvard University) |
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| Office: | 341 Goldwin Smith Hall |
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| Telephone: | 255-9546 |
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| Contact: |
dw242@cornell.edu
Cornell Directory Search |
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| Areas of Interest: | African American Literature; Ethiopian Poesis; Queer Studies; AIDS and Narratives of Loss; 1980s; Contemporary African and African-American Visual Culture. |
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| Professor Emeritus | S.M. Blumin, J. Brumberg, M. Kammen, D. McCall, R.L. Moore, S. Silbey, S. C. Strout |
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