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Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies:
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Government (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Techonology)  
Office:319 White Hall
Telephone:255-4506, 255-8965
Contact: mfk2@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest: incarceration, race, gender, social movements in comparative and American politics.
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. Baptist Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia)  
Office: 433 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-1881  
Contact:eeb36@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: history of slavery, 19th century U.S. history.  
Richard F. Bensel Professor 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, political culture.  
Mary P. Brady Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles)
Office:286 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone: 255-7566
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 Hall  
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. Cheyfitz Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University)
Office:157 Goldwin Smith Hall
Telephone:255-3546
Contact:etc7@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest:American literatures, federal Indian law.
Jefferson Cowie Associate Professor of History, ILR (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 Frank the Gary S. Davis Associate Professor in the History of Political Thought (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 Gainor Professor of Theater; Associate Dean of the Graduate School (Ph.D., Princeton University)  
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 Garcia Professor 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: North American refugee/immigration policy; U.S. Latino history; migration in the Americas.  
Frederic Gleach Senior Lecturer 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 Hammer Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture (Ph.D., University of California at Davis)  
Office:l 456 Kennedy Hall
Telephone:255-7195
Contact: agh24@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search
Areas of Interest: literature, oral history, landscape studies, photography and audio recording.
Robert HarrisProfessor of Africana Studies & Research Center (Ph.D. Northwestern University)  
Office:310 Triphammer Road  
Telephone: 255-8536  
Contact:rlh10@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:African American History; Historiography, Thought and Culture, Leaders and Movements.  
Louis R. HymanAssistant Professor ILR, Labor Relations, Law, and History (Ph.D. Harvard University)  
Office:356 Ives Hall  
Telephone: 5-5831 255-8536  
Contact:lrh62@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
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.  
Michael Jones-Correa Professor 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. Jordan Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Indian 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, Cultural entanglement, and Indigenous autonomy.  
Karim-Aly Kassam International Associate Professor of Environmental and Indigenous Studies, Department of Natural Resources & the American Indian Program (Ph.D., Cornell University)  
Office: 8A Fernow Hall  
Telephone: 255-9757  
Contact: ksk28@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
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.  
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies, Government (Ph.D., Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)  
Office: 319 White Hall  
Telephone:255-8965  
Contact: mfk2@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: incarceration, race, gender, social movements in comparative and American politics.  
Jonathan Kirshner Professor of Government (Ph.D., Princeton University)  
Office:323 White Hall  
Telephone:255-4120  
Contact: jdk5@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: International Relations, money and finance, political economy and national security, politics and film.  
Ronald Kline Bovay Professor in the History and Ethics of Professional Engineering (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)  
Office:394 Rhodes Hall  
Telephone:255-4307  
Contact:rkk1@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
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.  
Isaac Kramnick Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government (Ph.D., Harvard University)  
Office: 311 White Hall  
Telephone: 255-9175  
Contact:ik15@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to present.  
Clement Lai Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Asian American Studies (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)  
Office: 317 West Sibley Hall  
Telephone:254-6540  
Contact: CKL28@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: Race and space, social movements, multiracial politics, property, and anti-globalization struggles.  
Fredrik Logevall Professor of History; Director, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies (Ph.D., Yale University)  
Office: 343 McGraw Hall  
Telephone: 254-4311 or 255-8927  
Contact: FL57@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:American foreign policy.  
Theodore J. Lowi John 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 Maxwell Senior 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 McCullough Associate Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)  
Office:288 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-6796  
Contact:mkm23@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
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.  
Laura L. Meixner Associate 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: 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.  
Ronald L. Mize Assistant Professor of Development Sociology and Latino Studies (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Office: 341 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.
Victor Nee Goldwin 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 Norton Mary 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, 1607-1800: social, intellectual, legal and political; women and gender in Anglo-America.  
Jon Parmenter Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Michigan)  
Office: 452 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:    
Contact:jwp35@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Native American (esp. Iroquois) and early American history.  
Richard Polenberg Marie Underhill Noll Professor of 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 Sachs Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Yale University)  
Office: 350 McGraw Hall  
Telephone:255-1978  
Contact:as475@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: American culture, environmental studies.  
Nick Salvatore Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial Labor Relations and Professor of 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 Samuels Professor of English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)  
Office: 257 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone: 255-3994  
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 Sanders Professor of Government (Ph.D., Cornell University)  
Office:314 White Hall  
Telephone:255-2305  
Contact:mes14@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest: American political development, social movements, economic regulation, foreign policy, national government institutions (especially the presidency and bureaucracy).  
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry Associate 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: Ethnoracial identity; language, institutional culture, legal anthropology, ethnographic methods, urban anthropology, Latino cultures.  
Martin A. Shefter Professor 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 Smith Professor of Government (Ph.D., U. of Essex [England])  
Office:309 White Hall Hall  
Telephone:255-2708  
Contact: ams3@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
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.  
Sofia Villenas Director, Latino Studies and Associate Professor of Education/Latino Studies(Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.)  
Office:419 Kennedy Hall  
Telephone:254-5263  
Contact: sav33@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:educational anthropology; Latino education; issues in multiculturalism, language, and the social/political context of schooling.  
Margaret Washington Professor 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 cultural/intellectual/religious, gender, American South.  
Sunn Shelley Wong Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and English (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)  
Office:282 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-9310  
Contact:ssw6@cornell.edu Cornell Directory Search  
Areas of Interest:Asian American, African American, and ethnic literatures; Asian Canadian literature; cultural studies.  
Mary Woods Michael A. McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory (Ph.D., Columbia University)  
Office: 121C 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 Woubshet Assistant Professor of English (Ph.D., Harvard University)  
Office:341 Goldwin Smith Hall  
Telephone:255-9546  
Contact: dw242@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, R.L. Moore, S. Silbey, S. C. Strout  
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