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PETER G. BEIDLER, Lucy G. Moses Distinguished Professor of English
Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1968
Native American literature

BERRISFORD BOOTHE, Associate Professor of Art and Architecture
M.F.A. Maryland Institute College of Art
African American Art

GAIL COOPER, Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987
Women in American history, the machine in American history, Japanese history

STEPHEN H. CUTCLIFFE
Associate Professor of History & Director of Science, Technology and Society Program
Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1976
American technology; science technology and society

ALEXANDER DOTY, Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 1984
Film, mass culture, gay and lesbian studies, contemporary theory and criticism

EDWARD J. GALLAGHER, Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1970
Early American literature; multiculturalism; history, film and the web

HANNAH STEWART-GAMBINO, Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. Duke University
Latin America, politics of developing nations

NORMAN GIRARDOT, Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1974
Comparative religion studies, Shamanism, Outsider Art

HEATHER JOHNSON, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Northeastern University
Class and race in the United States, poverty

DAWN KEETLEY, Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1995
19th cntruy American literature and culture, Women's Studies, law and literature

ALEXANDER LEVINE, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1994
Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind

JACK LULE, Professor of Journalism
Ph.D. University of Georgia, 1987
Media, sports and journalism

RICHARD K. MATTHEWS, NEH Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1981
Political philosophy and ideology; and early American thought

JAMES R. MCINTOSH, Professor of Sociology
Ph.D. Syracuse University, 1970
Social theory, deviance, alchohol studies

SETH MOGLEN, Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1999
20th centurty American literature, African American literature, 19th-20th century African American political movements, history of American social and political movements

EDWARD P. MORGAN, Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1975
American politics and the media, propaganda and the 1960s

MONICA NAJAR, Assistant Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 2000
Early American history, women's history, religion, the South

KATHY OLSON, Assistant Professor of Journalism
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, 2000
Intellectual property law, Internet

JOHN PETTEGREW, Associate Professor of History and Director of American Studies
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1994
20th Century U.S. intellectual and cultural history

MICHAEL L. RAPOSA, Associate Professor of Religion Studies
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1987
Pragmatism

WILLIAM R. SCOTT, Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies
Ph.D. Princeton University, 1972
Africa, African American history

JOHN SMITH, Associate Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Delaware, 1986
American technology, business history

ROGER D. SIMON, Professor of History
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1971
Social and urban history

JEAN R. SODERLUND, Professor of History
Ph.D. Temple University, 1982
Colonial America, African American history, U.S. women

ALBERT J. WURTH, Associate Professor of Political Science
Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1987
American politics and policy, environmental politics and policy