Riv Ellen Prell
Professor of American Studies and Department Chair.
Research and teaching interests: Anthropology of American Jews, ethnicity and gender, immigration, and ritual.

M. Bianet Castellanos
Assistant Professor of American Studies
Teaching and research interests: Indigenous cultures of the Americas; Chican@/Latin@ Studies; and anthropology of gender, work, migration, consumption, and transnationalism.

Brenda Child
Associate Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies.
Teaching and research interests: American Indian history, the history of Indian education.

Kale Fajardo
Assistant Professor of American Studies.
Teaching and research interests: seafaring and maritime trade,globalization, Filipino American Studies, and Philippine Studies.

Roderick Ferguson
Associate Professor of American Studies
Teaching and research interests: Social theory, race, sexuality and gender.

Trica Danielle Keaton
Assistant Professor of American Studies.
Teaching and research interests: African and African American Migration; “Black Paris”; “Black Europe”; Comparative and International Theories of “Race”; Identity, Educational, and Migration Politics; Urban Ethnography

Elaine Tyler May
Professor of American Studies and History and Director of Graduate Studies.
Research and teaching interests: History, women and family, sexuality, domestic culture,and politics.

Lary May
Professor of American Studies
Research and teaching interests: Post World War II American history, popular culture.

Carol Miller
Associate Professor of American Studies and American Indian Studies
Research and teaching interests: American literatures, American Indian women's narratives, and intercultural studies.

David Noble
Professor of American Studies
Research and teaching interests: History, literature, philosophy and religion.

Jennifer Pierce
Associate Professor of American Studies Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research and teaching interests: Gender, race and contemporary labor issues.