Patricia Albers
[Professor, American Indian Studies]
Interests: Interethnic relations; anthropology
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Lisa Albrecht
[Associate Professor, School of Social Work]
Interests: Feminism, anti-racism activism; Israeli-Palistinian conflict; critical pedagogy
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Ronald Aminzade
[Professor, Sociology]
Interests: Social change
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John Archer
[Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative Literature]
Interests: Suburbia; Architecture; Landscape; Suburban/urban history; Theories of space
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Thomas E Augst
[Associate Professor, English Language and Literature]
Interests: American literature and culture
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Hyman Berman
[Professor Emeritus, History]
Interests: Labor history
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David Born
[Professor, Preventative Sciences-Health Ecology]
Interests: Preventative medicine; health practices in the U.S.
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Harry Boyte
[Senior Fellow, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs]
Interests: Theory and practice of democracy, citizenship education and civic engagement, democratic politics, democratic social movements, youth civic and political engagement, comparative studies of democracies.
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Bruce Braun
[Associate Professor, Geography]
Interests: Nature, colonialism and modernity; Constructions of indigeneity; Environment and Social Theory; Urbanization of nature.
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Timothy Andres Brennan
[Professor, Cultural Studies & Compaarative Literature]
Interests: 19th and 20th Century Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Theory, Globalization, Music.
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Rose Brewer
[Associate Professor, African American & African Studies]
Interests: Black Family; Sociology; race, gender, class
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Robert 'Robin' Brown
[Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature]
Interests: Linguistics; science studies, rhetoric, literacy, pedagogy
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David A.Y.O. Chang
[Assistant Professor, History]
Interests: Race, Native American and African American history, Imperialism, Religion, class conflict
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Jeffrey R. Crump
[Associate Professor, Design Housing & Apparel - Housing Studies Program]
Interests: Housing - US cities and suburbs, Labor History - U.S. Midwest, race, class, gender in housing
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Maria Damon
[Associate Professor, English]
Interests: Poetry; Poetics; Cultural studies
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Tracy Ann Deutsch
[Assistant Professor, History]
Interests: Gender, consumer culture, capitalism
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Hazel Dicken-Garcia
[Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication]
Interests: history of journalism
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Mary Dietz
[Professor, Political Science]
Interests: Development and Political Theory
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Lisa Disch
[Professor, Political Science]
Interests: Contemporary political & social theory
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Penny A Edgell
[Associate Professor, Sociology]
Interests: American religion, civic life
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Sara Evans
[Regents Professor, History]
Interests: Women's social history
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James Farr
[Professor, Political Science]
Interests: History of American political thought
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Kirsten Fischer
[Associate Professor, History]
Interests: Early American, U.S. social & intellectual history; Race, class and gender nationalism
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Donna Gabaccia
[Professor, Rudolph J. Vecoli Professor of Immigration History Research and Director of Immigration History Research Center]
Interests: Women and gender, migration and immigration, food studies, U.S. in global perspective
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Philip Gersmehl
[Professor, Geography]
Interests: Regionalism
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Vinay Gidwani
[Assistant Professor, Geography]
Interests: Labor; Theories of agrarian & ecological change; spatialit of class & identity politics, development
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Lily Josephine Goren
[Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, Carroll College - Waukesha WI]
Interests: American political development, American political institutions, Contemporary Culture [Film, Literature, TV]
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George Green [Associate Professor, History]
Interests: Economic history
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Edward Griffin [Professor, English Language and Literature]
Interests: Early American literature
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Dutchess Harris
[Associate Professor and Chair, American Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science -- Macalester College]
Interests: Race, class & American feminism, Black public intellectuals, Black political thought, Contemporary Black feminist theory, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. health care, culturally diverse autobiography.
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Douglas Hartmann
[Associate Professor, Sociology]
Interests: Race, sport, culture, theory, and interpretive methods
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H.N. Hirsch
[Professor, Political Science at Macalester College]
Interests: Gender & Sexuality Constitutional law & jurisprudence; Modern political theory; American political thought
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Karen Zouwen Ho
[Assistant Professor, Anthropology]
Interests: U.S. Late capitalism, culture of financial markets, post industrialism,globalization, race/ethnicity gender/ Asian American studies
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Karen Nelson Hoyle
[Professor and Curator, Children's Literature Research Collection]
Interests: Children's literature.
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Mary Jo Kane
[Professor, Kinesiology and Leisure Studies]
Interests: gender, sport and media analysis.
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Sally Kenney
[Professor, HHH Institute of Public Affairs]
Interests: Women and politics
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Sally G. Kohlstedt
[Professor, History of Science and Technology]
Interests: History of American science
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Erika Lee
[Assssociate Professor, History]
Interests: 20th Century US, Asian/American immigration history
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Josephine Lee
[Associate Professor, English Language and Literature]
Interests: Theater history; performance theories; Asian-American studies
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Richard M Lee
[Associate Professor, Psychology]
Interests: Cultural socialization and mental health of Asian American immigrant, US-born, refugee, and adoptee populations.
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Richard Leppert
[Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative literature]
Interests: Music and cultural theory
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Alex Lubet
[Professor, Music]
Interests: Disability Studies, Jewish, fusion & contemporary music
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Karal Ann Marling
[Professor, Art History]
Interests: American art and pop art
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Judith Martin
[Professor, Geography/Urban Studies]
Interests: Broadly urban U.S. and Europe; Urban planning; American culture
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David Martinez
[Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies]
Interests: American Indian intellectual history; American Indian art & aesthetics; American Indian religions.
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Keith A. Mayes
[Assistant Professor, Afro-American and African Studies]
Interests: Post-1945 U.S. history, American & African American popular culture, race
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Patrick J McNamara
[Assistant Professor, history]
Interests: ethnic studies; border studies
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Russell Menard
[Professor, History]
Interests: Colonial history
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Louis Mendoza
[Associate Professor, Chicano Studies]
Interests: U.S. ethnic studies, Chicana/o Studies, Prison literature, U.S. Immigration literature, cultural studies, language and identity, and Gender Studies.
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Ellen Messer-Davidow
[Professor, English, Language and Literature]
Interests: Gender and knowledge, social movements, and public policy
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Roger Miller
[Associate Professor, Geography]
Interests: Scandinavia; geography methodology; social theory; planning history
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Scott L. Morgensen
[ Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies -- Macalester College]
Interests: queer studies, feminist studies, American studies, racial formation in sexual minority politics, non-Native imaginaries of indigeneity, Native lesbian, gay, and two-spirit organizing, transnational sexual politics, ethnographic methods.
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Kevin P. Murphy
[Assistant Professor, History]
Interests: U.S. cultural and political history, history/theory of gender and sexuality, U.S. visual culture.
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John Nichols
[Professor, American Indian Studies]
Interests: American linguistics
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Lisa Norling
[Associate Professor, History]
Interests: 18th and 19th century American women's history; gender and work; Atlantic world and maritime history.
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Jean O'Brien
[Associate Professor, History]
Interests: U.S. colonial and American Indian history.
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Joanna O'Connell
[Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese]
Interests: Spanish American literature
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Daniel Philippon
[Associate Professor, Rhetoric]
Interests: Environmental studies; nature writing, regionalism and place.
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Paula Rabinowitz
[Professor, English Language and Literature]
Interests: Culture theory; Feminism; Film; Working-class literature; 1930s
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Peter Rachleff
[Professor, History -- Macalester College]
Interests: race, labor studies
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Guillermo Rojas
[Professor Emeritus, Chicano Studies]
Interests: Literature and culture
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Steven Ruggles
[Professor, History]
Interests: Historical demography; History of family; U.S. social history
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Harvey Sarles
[Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative Literature]
Interests: Cultural criticism; Pragmatism
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Jani Scandura
[Associate Professor, English Language and Literature]
Interests: Poetry, fiction and film
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Colleen Sheehy
[Director of Education, Weisman Art Museum]
Interests: Visual and material culture; American art; Vernacular landscapes; public art; Architecture; Museum practice
For additional information see the Weisman Art Museum website.
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Eric Sheppard
[Professor, Geography]
Interests: Economic geography, urban and regional development; philosophy and method in the social sciences, critical GIS, environmental justice, the historical geography of ideas.
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Robert Silberman
[Associate Professor, Art History]
Interests: Film and photography
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Katherine M. Solomonson
[Associate Professor, Architecture]
Interests: History of architecture
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Hoon Song
[Assistant Professor, Anthropology]
Interests: Deindustrialization, Anti-Semitism, Whiteness, Masculinity, Mining, Mass Media
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Brian G. Southwell
[Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communications]
Interests: Intersection of popular culture and health behavior in U.S. Public understanding of science
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Dara Zippora Strolovitch
[Assistant Professor, Political Science]
Interests: Social movements and group politics, politics of gender, race/ethnicity, class and sexuality.
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Natasha Tinsley
[Associate Professor, English, Language/Literature]
Interests: Caribbean Literature
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Eden Torres
[Associate Professor, Women's Studies]
Interests: Chicano Literature; Migrant issues, Chicana Feminist Studies
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David Treuer
[Associate Professor, English. Language and Literature]
Interests: Native American literature; 20th century international literature; Native American languages: translation
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David Valentine
[Assistant Professor, Anthropology]
Interests: Gender, sexuality, language and communication; the urban U.S.; aliens (terrestrial and extra-terrestrial); and medical anthropology
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Barbara Welke
[Associate Professor, History]
Interests: Constitutional legal women's history
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David E Wilkins
[Professor, American Indian Studies]
Interests: Political/legal relationship between indiginous nations & U.S. and State governments.
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John Wright
[Professor, African American & African Studies]
Interests: Anthropology; Harlem Rennaisance
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Michelle M. Wright
[Associate Professor, English]
Interests: African American 19th and 20th century, literature, culture and theory.
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Jack Zipes
[Professor, German, Scandinavian and Dutch]
Interests: American literature; Fairy tales
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Jacqueline Zita
[Associate Professor, Women's Studies]
Interests: Feminist philosophy; Queer theory
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