American Studies Faculty

Rudolph Byrd
African American Literature; documentary photography; philosophy and literature

Gary Laderman
Religion, death and dying, popular religions and material culture

Regine O. Jackson, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Racial and ethnic identity; American immigration; Urban ethnography; Haitian diaspora; Black subjectivity; Migration narratives

Cristine Levenduski
Early literature and culture; autobiography, popular culture

Michael Moon
Late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture, including film, especially in relation to the history and theory of sexuality and of mass culture

Catherine Nickerson
Late nineteenth and twentieth century literature; popular fiction; Asian American studies; violence studies

Jonathan Prude
Social and labor history

Allen Tullos, Co-Director
Music, Southern studies; documentary forms

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
Race, gender, and representation; nineteenth-century popular culture; African American women and culture; body theory and feminism; racial stereotypes and artifacts

Dana White
Urban studies; history of Atlanta; urban film and television documentary.

Affiliated Faculty

Dwight Andrews, African-American Studies & Music
Joseph Crespino, History
Peter Dowell, English
Timothy Dowd, Sociology
Peggy Bartlett, Anthropology
Matthew Bernstein, Film Studies
Saralyn Chesnut, Campus Life Activities
Stephen Christ, Music
Michael Elliott, English
Dorinda Evans, Art History
Micahel Evenden, Theatre Studies
James Flannery, W.B. Yeats Foundation
Leslie Harris, History & African-American Studies
Lawrence Jackson, English & African-American Studies
Walter Kalaidjian, English
Barbara Ladd, English
Jeffrey Lesser, History & Latin American Studies
Valerie Loichot, French & Italian
Kim Loudermilk, Emory College
Mary Odem, History & Women's Studies
Judith Rohrer, Art History
Karen Stolley, Spanish & Portuguese
Rosemarie Garland Thompson, Women's Studies
Natasha Tretheway, English & Creative Writing
Cynthia Willett, Philosophy

Affiliated Faculty

Kim Loudermilk
Saralyn Chestnut