The faculty in American Studies comprises more than fifty affiliates with specialties in History, English, Art History, Architecture Studies, Material Culture Studies, Sociology, Religion, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, Political Science, African American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cinema and Media Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. The Program Committee is the governing body of American Studies and is appointed every two years by the Director. For a list of faculty by area of expertise, see here.
Program Directors
Clinical Professor of American Studies Professor of Film & Television Studies and Professor of History of Art & Architecture and Director of Preservation Studies
Mary Battenfeld
Director of Undergraduate Studies, American Studies Program
Deborah L. Jaramillo
Director of Graduate Studies, American StudiesCarolyn White
Program Committee
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Wade Campbell
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Bradley Craig
Assistant Professor of History
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André de Quadros
Professor of Music, Music Education
Affiliate faculty, African Studies Center, Center for the Study of Asia, Global Health Initiative, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations -
Alyssa Hunziker
Assistant Professor of English
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William D. Moore
Associate Professor of American Material Culture
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Sarah T. Phillips
Associate Professor of History
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Takeo Rivera
Associate Professor of English
Lecturers and Postdoctoral Fellows
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Aaron Ahlstrom
History of American landscape design; historic preservation; environmental history
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Allyson LaForge
Abbott Lowell Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow in American Material Culture
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C. Ian Stevenson
Associate Director, Preservation Studies Program
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Sara Wermiel
Lecturer, Preservation Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty
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Daniel Abramson
Professor of American & European Architecture and Director of Architectural Studies
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Paula Austin
Associate Professor of History and African American & Black Diaspora Studies
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Ross Barrett
Professor of American Art, History of Art & Architecture
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Mary Battenfeld
Clinical Professor of American Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies, American Studies Program -
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
Associate Professor of Music, Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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Brooke L. Blower
Professor of History and Chair of History
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Japonica Brown-Saracino
Professor of Sociology and Chair of Sociology
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Wade Campbell
Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Deborah Carr
Professor of Sociology and Director of Center for Innovation in Social Science
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Robert Chodat
Professor of English
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Jilene Chua
Assistant Professor of History
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Louis Chude-Sokei
Professor of English and George and Joyce Wein Chair in African American & Black Diaspora Studies
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Victor Coelho
Professor of Music;
Chair of Historical Performance;
Director of Center for Early Music Studies -
Adriana Craciun
Professor of English and Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair of Humanities
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Bradley Craig
Assistant Professor of History
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André de Quadros
Professor of Music, Music Education
Affiliate faculty, African Studies Center, Center for the Study of Asia, Global Health Initiative, and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations -
Dan DiPiero
Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology & Ethnomusicology
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Jonathan Foltz
Associate Professor of English
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Margarita Guillory
Professor of Religion and African American & Black Diaspora Studies and Director of African American & Black Diaspora Studies
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Jan Haenraets
Professor of the Practice of Preservation Studies
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Melanie Hall
Associate Professor and History of Art & Architecture and Director of Museum Studies
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Charlotte E. Howell
Associate Professor of Film & Television and Director of Film & Television Studies
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William Huntting Howell
Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of English
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Alyssa Hunziker
Assistant Professor of English
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Paul Hutchinson
Senior Lecturer of Management and Organizations, Questrom School of Business
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Deborah L. Jaramillo
Professor of Film & Television Studies and
Director of Graduate Studies, American Studies -
Nazli Kibria
Professor of Sociology
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Maurice Lee
Professor of English
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David Mayers
Professor of History and Political Science
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Brendan McConville
Professor of History
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Sarah Miller
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Koritha Mitchell
Professor of English
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Susan L. Mizruchi
Professor of English and William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities
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William D. Moore
Associate Professor of American Material Culture
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Anita Patterson
Professor of English
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Sarah T. Phillips
Associate Professor of History
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Carrie Preston
Professor of English and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies;
Associate Director of Center on Forced Displacement;
Chair of English -
Ana-María Reyes
Associate Professor of Latin American Art & Architecture and Director of Center for Latin American Studies
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Joseph Rezek
Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies Program
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Takeo Rivera
Associate Professor of English
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Andrew Robichaud
Associate Professor of History
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Jeffrey W. Rubin
Associate Professor of History and Research Associate for the BU Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA)
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Heather Schoenfeld
Associate Professor of Sociology
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Bruce Schulman
William E. Huntington Professor of History
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Nicole Smythe-Johnson
Assistant Professor of African Diaspora Arts, History of Art & Architecture
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Adam Sweeting
Associate Professor of Humanities
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John Thornton
Professor of History and African American & Black Diaspora Studies
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Robert Weller
Professor of Anthropology
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Thomas Whalen
Associate Professor of Social Sciences
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CW Carolyn White
Professor of History of Art & Architecture and Director of Preservation Studies
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Merry White
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
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Gregory Williams
Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, History of Art & Architecture
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Graham Wilson
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
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Harvey Young
Dean of College of Fine Arts