American Studies
ROUNDTABLE

Judith E. Smith

Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University, 1980
Specializes in U.S. culture since 1945, film and media history, ethnicity and race, family history, urban history. (American Studies)

Shauna Lee Manning

M.Ed. in Instructional Design, UMass Boston, 2001; MA Certificate in Dispute Resolution, UMass Boston, 2006. Member of the National Scholars Honor Society.
(American Studies, Communication Studies, Women's Studies)

Aaron Lecklider

Ph.D., American Studies, Boston University, 2007
Gender and sexuality; U.S. cultural history; 20th century American literature; radical fiction, art, and performance

Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2006
19th century social and cultural history; visual and popular culture; race, gender, war and empire (American Studies)

Marisol Negron

Ph.D., Spanish, Stanford University, 2006
Latino literary and cultural studies; 19th and 20th century Caribbean literature; popular culture and commodification (American Studies and Latino Studies)

Rachel Rubin

Ph.D. American Studies Yale University, 1995
Specializes in American popular music, ethnic literature, American literature and the Left (American Studies)

Shirley Tang

Ph.D. American Studies, SUNY Buffalo
Specializes in comparative race, ethnicity and culture, Southeast Asian American community studies, ethnography, transnational feminism, activist art, popular culture (American Studies/Asian American Studies)

Ph.D. in American Studies, Emory University
African American Studies, American literature and culture, New Orleans culture and history (American Studies)

Paul Watanabe

Ph.D. Political Science, Harvard University, 1980
Specializes in American foreign policy, p0litical behavior, ethnic group politics, Asian American Studies (Co-Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, Co-director of the Summer Institute for Teachers)

Paul Atwood

Ph.D. American Studies, Boston University, 1991
Specializes in war in American culture, history of U.S.wars in the 20th century (American Studies/William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences)

Ed.D., Education, Harvard University, 1974
History of popular music, race and popular music (Associate Dean of College of Public and Community Service)

Ph.D., History, Yale University, 1972
Post-Civil War U.S. social and political history, labor ad protest movements, popular expressions of consciousness, public history (History Dept.)

Betsy Klimasmith

Ph.D. English, University of Washington, 2000. American literarure and culture; women writers, urban literature and culture.

Susan Tomlinson

African American Literature; Colonial American Literature; Gender and Modernism.

Julie Winch

Ph.D., History, Bryn Mawr, 1982
African American history, antebellum free people of color, maritime history (History)