American Studies

Affiliated Faculty

Sima Belmar
Theater
Dance, talk, and gesture in North American concert dance; dance in popular film and television; somatic theory/practice/ pedagogy; performance and phenomenology; and embodied research methods
tdps.berkeley.edu/people/sima-belmar

Charles L. Briggs
Anthropology
Social/cultural anthropology, especially linguistic and medical anthropology; narrative; media and mediatization; folklore and performance; racialization; violence
anthropology.berkeley.edu/charles-l-briggs

Mark Brilliant
History, American Studies
20th Century U.S., Political Economy; Civil Rights; Education; Law; The West
history.berkeley.edu/mark-brilliant

Michael M. Cohen
African American Studies, American Studies,
US Cultural History from the Civil War to the Present; Work and Labor History; World War II; Race, class and American popular culture; Cultural Studies and Marxist Theory; Drugs and Alcohol in US History
africam.berkeley.edu/people/michael-cohen/

Raul Coronado
Ethnic Studies
Histories of sexuality & of the academic disciplines; Latina/o intellectual & literary history; The comparative history of writing in the colonial and 19th century Americas; Theories of modernity & postcolonialism
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/raul-coronado-1/

Alexander Craghead
American Studies
Histories of technology, representation and landscape including photography and simulation; Histories of urban policy, land use, and transportation; North American cultural geography
as.ugis.berkeley.edu/people/alexander-benjamin-craghead/

Margaret Crawford
Architecture
History of architecture, urban design and planning; Urban history and theory; U.S. built environment; Urbanism in China
ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/margaret-crawford

Kathleen Donegan
English
Atlantic, Caribbean, Early American, and Native American Literatures
english.berkeley.edu/users/23

Chiyuma Elliott
African American Studies
Poetry and poetics; African American literature; Intellectual history from the 1920s to the present; Black Geography/Cultural Geography
africam.berkeley.edu/people/chiyuma-elliott/

Peter Glazer
Theater
Directing; Adaptation; Performance Theory; 20th Century American Theater; Commemorative Performance
tdps.berkeley.edu/people/peter-glazer

Sarah Gold McBride
American Studies
Social and cultural history of the 19th-century United States
as.ugis.berkeley.edu/people/sarah-gold-mcbride/

Dorothy J. Hale
English
Critical Theory; Narrative & the Novel, 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature; 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature; 19th-Century American Literature
english.berkeley.edu/users/34

David Henkin
History
19th century; Urban history; Cultural history
history.berkeley.edu/david-henkin

Shari Huhndorf
Ethnic Studies
Cultural studies; Gender studies; Interdisciplinary Native American studies; Literary and visual culture
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/shari-huhndorf/

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
History
Gender and American slavery; Colonial and 19th century legal and economic history; Women, systems of bondage, and the slave trade
history.berkeley.edu/stephanie-e-jones-rogers

Jake Kosek
Geography
Cultural politics of nature and difference; Cultural geography, science and technology studies; Critical race theory; Critical cartography; Biopolitics; human and the non-human; Environmental politics
geography.berkeley.edu/jake-kosek

Lauren Kroiz
History of Art
20th Century American Art
arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/lauren-kroiz/

Steven Lee
English
American literature, comparative ethnic studies; Soviet and post-Soviet studies; and Northeast Asia during the interwar years
english.berkeley.edu/users/157

Margaretta Lovell
History of Art
American Art and Architecture
arthistory.berkeley.edu/people/margaretta-lovell/

Waldo E. Martin
History
Race and citizenship; 20th century U.S. history
history.berkeley.edu/waldo-e-martin

David H. Miller
Music
Modernist music and its circulation in the United States; intersections of modernism and early music
https://music.berkeley.edu/people/david-h-miller/

Louise Mozingo
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Urban design and planning Design history; Social and cultural factors in landscape design
ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/louise-mozingo

Samuel Otter
English
Early American, 19th-Century American, and African American Literatures
english.berkeley.edu/users/60

Christian Paiz
Ethnic Studies
Comparative historical studies of race, gender and class and their intersections in relation to immigration, labor markets, and citizenship; comparative Latino studies; historical methods; Philippine and Filipino American studies; social movement history; U.S. history
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/christian-paiz/

Christine Palmer
American Studies
Folklore; American popular culture; race, visual culture, literature, and cultural memory; 20th-century mass culture
as.ugis.berkeley.edu/people/christine-palmer/

Beth Piatote
English, Comparative Literature
American literature and cultural studies; Native American literature; Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada; Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/beth-piatote-1/

Leigh Raiford
African American Studies
Race, gender, justice and visuality
africam.berkeley.edu/people/leigh-raiford/

Juana Maria Rodriguez
Ethnic Studies
Critical legal theory; Latinx media and popular culture; LGBTQ activisms; Racialized gender and sexuality
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/juana-maria-rodriguez/

Christine M. Rosen
Haas School of Business
Sustainability; Business history and the environment; American environmental history
haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/rosen-christine/

Caitlin C. Rosenthal
History
18th and 19th century U.S. history; Development of management practices, especially those based on data analysis
history.berkeley.edu/caitlin-c-rosenthal

Scott Saul
English
Cultural Studies; Drama; 20th- and 21st-Century American and African American Literatures
english.berkeley.edu/users/67

Susan Schweik
English
19th- 20th- and 21st-Century American Literatures; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Gender & Sexuality; Disability Studies; Poetry
english.berkeley.edu/users/68

Andrew Shanken
Architecture, American Studies
Architecture and consumer culture; Memory and the built environment; Historiography; Paper architecture and the unbuilt; Fairs and expositions; Themed landscapes; History of heritage and conservation planning; Architectural keywords
ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/andrew-shanken

Katherine Snyder
English
British and American modernist narratives in relation to the history of masculinity; Contemporary fiction; Post-apocalyptic, post-traumatic, and post-9/11 novels
english.berkeley.edu/profiles/70

Shannon Steen
Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, American Studies
Critical Race and Performance Theory; U.S. Histories of Popular Performance; U.S. Urban Development; Globalization Studies
tdps.berkeley.edu/people/shannon-steen

Brandi T. Summers
Geography
Black geographies; urban geography; racial aesthetics; design, planning and architecture; cultural politics of difference  

https://geography.berkeley.edu/brandi-thompson-summers

Elisa Tamarkin
English
American literature; 18th- and 19th-century intellectual history, philosophy, and painting.
english.berkeley.edu/users/159

Bryan Wagner
English
African American expression in the context of slavery and its aftermath; Legal history; Vernacular culture
english.berkeley.edu/users/74

Laurie Wilkie
Anthropology
Historical and Contemporary Archaeology, Preservation and Heritage, Household archaeology, US and Caribbean
https://anthropology.berkeley.edu/laurie-wilkie

Emeritus / Emerita

Marcial Gonzalez
English (Emeritus)
20th- and 21st-Century American Literature; Chicanx and/or Latinx Literature; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Narrative & the Novel
english.berkeley.edu/users/32

Richard Hutson
English (Emeritus)
American literature and culture (popular culture, history, film) from the Civil War to the Great Depression; the American realist novel
english.berkeley.edu/users/40

Joe R. McBride
Environmental Science and Policy Management, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning (Emeritus)
Vegetation and ecological analysis; urban forestry; historic landscape restoration
ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/joe-mcbride

Donald McQuade
English (Emeritus)
19th-century American literature and culture; Theory and practice of non-fiction; Literature and popular culture; The American Renaissance; Advertising, The essay form
english.berkeley.edu/users/52

Kathleen Moran 
American Studies (Emerita)
Consumerism and advertising; Themescapes; Disneyland; Los Angeles and Southern California
as.ugis.berkeley.edu/people/kathleen-moran/

Genaro Padilla
English (Emeritus)
2oth and 21st Century American Literature; Chicanx and/or Latinx Literature;  Cultural Studies
https://english.berkeley.edu/users/61

Alex Saragoza
Ethnic Studies (Emeritus)
Immigration to the USA (especially from Mexico and Cuba); Historical interface between processes of racialization and inequity in Latin America
ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/alex-saragoza/

Hertha D. Sweet Wong
English (Emerita)
Autobiography; Native American literatures; Ethnic American literatures; Visual studies
english.berkeley.edu/users/75