Faculty

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

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  Brooke Blower

  Interim Director, American & New England Studies Program;
  Associate Professor of History

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  Deborah L. Jaramillo

  Director of Graduate Studies, American & New England Studies; Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies

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  Kim Sichel

  Director of Undergraduate Studies, American & New England Studies Program; Professor of History of Art & Architecture

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  C. Ian Stevenson

  Interim Director, Preservation Studies Program

Program Committee

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  Paula Austin

  Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies

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  Mary Battenfeld

  Clinical Professor of American Studies

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  Jilene A. C. Chua

  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

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  Charlotte E. Howell

  Associate Professor, Media Studies, Television Studies

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  Nazli Kibria

  Professor of Sociology

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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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  Takeo Rivera

  Assistant 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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  Claire Bunschoten

  Abbott Lowell Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow

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  C. Ian Stevenson

  Interim Director, Preservation Studies Program

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  Sara Wermiel

  Lecturer, Preservation Studies Program

Affiliated Faculty

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  Daniel Abramson

  Director, Architectural Studies;
  Professor, American & European Architecture

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  Paula Austin

  Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies

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  Ross Barrett

  Associate Professor of American Art, History of Art & Architecture

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  Mary Battenfeld

  Clinical Professor of American Studies

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  Michael Birenbaum Quintero

  Associate Professor of Music and Chair, Musicology & Ethnomusicology

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  Brooke Blower

  Interim Director, American & New England Studies Program;
  Associate Professor of History

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  Laurence Breiner

  Professor of English

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  Japonica Brown-Saracino

  Professor of Sociology

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  Wade Campbell

  Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology

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  Deborah Carr

  Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Innovation in Social Science

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  Robert Chodat

  Professor of English

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  Jilene A. C. Chua

  Assistant Professor of History

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  Louis Chude-Sokei

  Professor Of English;
  George And Joyce Wein Chair In African American Studies;
  Director Of The African American Studies Program

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  Victor Coelho

  Chair, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology;
  Director, Center for Early Music Studies;
  Professor of Music

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  Adriana Craciun

  Professor and Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Chair, Department of English

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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

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  Megan J. Elias

  Associate Professor of the Practice
  Director, Gastronomy

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  Jonathan Foltz

  Associate Professor of English

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  Margarita Guillory

  Associate Professor of Religion

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  Jan Haenraets

  Professor of the Practice, Preservation Studies

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  Melanie Hall

  Director, Museum Studies Program;
  Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture

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  Charlotte E. Howell

  Associate Professor, Media Studies, Television Studies

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  William Huntting Howell

  Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of English

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  Alyssa Hunziker

  Assistant Professor of English

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  Paul Hutchinson

  Senior Lecturer of Organizational Behavior, Questrom School of Business

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  Deborah L. Jaramillo

  Director of Graduate Studies, American & New England Studies; Associate Professor, Film and Television Studies

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  Nazli Kibria

  Professor of Sociology

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  Maurice Lee

  Professor of English

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  John T. Matthews

  Professor of English

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  David Mayers

  Professor of Political Science and History

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  Brendan McConville

  Professor of History

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  Koritha Mitchell

  Professor of English

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  Susan L. Mizruchi

  Director, Boston University Center for the Humanities;
  Professor of English;
  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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  Anthony Petro

  Associate Professor of Religion and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Director of Graduate Studies in Religion, Director, Health Humanities Project

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  Sarah T. Phillips

  Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Associate Professor of History

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  Carrie Preston

  Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies;
  Associate Director, Center on Forced Displacement

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  Ana-María Reyes

  Director of Graduate Studies, History of Art & Architecture; Assistant Professor of Latin American Art

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  Joseph Rezek

  Associate Professor of English

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  Takeo Rivera

  Assistant Professor of English

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  Andrew Robichaud

  Associate Professor of History

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  Jeffrey W. Rubin

  Associate Professor of History;
  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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  Kim Sichel

  Director of Undergraduate Studies, American & New England Studies Program; Professor of History of Art & Architecture

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  Nina Silber

  Jon Westling Professor of History

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  Adam Sweeting

  Associate Professor of Humanities

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  John Thornton

  Professor of African American Studies and History

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  Robert Weller

  Professor of Anthropology

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  Thomas Whalen

  Associate Professor of Social Sciences

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  Merry White

  Professor Emeritus of Anthropology

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  Gregory Williams

  Associate Professor, Contemporary Art; History of Art & Architecture

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  Graham Wilson

  Professor of Political Science