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Area of Expertise: American Studies

Golub, Adam

Professor of American Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • Monsters and American Culture
  • Childhood and youth culture
  • Popular culture
  • History of U.S. education

More Info Expert: 726

Gradilla, Alexandro J.

Associate Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • Non-western thought
  • Bioethics
  • Cultural competency
  • Male circumcision (medical)
  • Mexican immigration
  • Latino identity in the US
  • White privilege
  • First generation college students
  • Mentorship
  • Men's Studies
  • Maleness and masculinity
  • Marxist/Anarchist theory

More Info Expert: 747

Hargraves, Hunter

Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts

Areas of Knowledge

  • television criticism
  • popular culture studies
  • television history

More Info Expert: 865

Hobson, Wayne K.

Professor of American Studies (Emeritus)

Areas of Knowledge

  • United States cultural history
  • 19th and 20th centuries
  • Public memory (historical museums, commemorations, documentaries, etc.)
  • Images of crime and violence and famous trials

More Info Expert: 85

Horwitz, Ariella C.

Lecturer

Areas of Knowledge

  • Social Media
  • Celebrity Politics
  • Visual Culture
  • Mass Culture
  • Mediated Subjectivity

More Info Expert: 1000

Ibson, John D.

Professor of American Studies, emeritus

Areas of Knowledge

  • American men's history (especially men's various relationships with each other) and current situation
  • Sexual orientation in the U.S. - history and current situation
  • Prejudice in the United States
  • 1960s America

More Info Expert: 403

Lane, Carrie M.

Professor of American Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • work
  • unemployment
  • job loss
  • insecure/precarious work
  • gig work
  • gender
  • feminism
  • self-employment
  • professional organizing
  • clutter
  • disorganization
  • simple living
  • minimalism
  • masculinity
  • office work
  • white-collar work
  • overwhelm/burnout
  • disability
  • ableism
  • community
  • study abroad
  • Denmark
  • Bali
  • ethnography
  • hoarding
  • internships
  • service-learning

More Info Expert: 553

Lewinnek, Elaine

Assistant Professor of American Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • suburbs
  • home financing
  • urban history
  • progressive era
  • bicycle activism
  • consumer culture

More Info Expert: 548

Loftin, Craig M.

Lecturer in American Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • LGBT History
  • U.S. Pop Culture History
  • 1980s Music Videos

More Info Expert: 963

Lystra, Karen A.

Professor of American Studies, Emeritus

Areas of Knowledge

  • Courtship, marriage, love and sexuality in the 19th century
  • Mark Twain and family

More Info Expert: 319

McConnell, Craig S.

Associate Professor of Liberal Studies

Areas of Knowledge

  • history of 19th and 20th century physics
  • history of astronomy
  • history of cosmology
  • science popularization
  • Cold War culture
  • literature and science

More Info Expert: 505

Sekhon, Sharon

Lecturer in American Studies, Asian American Studies, University Honors Program

Areas of Knowledge

  • History

More Info Expert: 788

Sheehan, Rebecca A.

Professor of Cinema and Television Arts

Areas of Knowledge

  • American Avant-Garde Cinema
  • Sculpture and Cinema
  • Film and Philosophy
  • Border Cinema
  • Early American and German Cinema
  • Experimental Cinema and Modernist Poetics

More Info Expert: 917

Sparks, Anthony

Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts

Areas of Knowledge

  • Television Industry/Media Industry Studies
  • Television Writing/Screenwriting
  • Politics & Performance Studies
  • African American Culture & Politics

More Info Expert: 785

Steiner, Michael C.

Professor of American Studies, Emeritus

Areas of Knowledge

  • American culture
  • Regionalism
  • Architecture
  • Built environments especially in the Midwest, West and California
  • Hungary and Poland
  • International American Studies

More Info Expert: 474

 

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