Richard Dent
,Department Chair, Anthropology
Prof. Dent is the author of Chesapeake Prehistory: Old Traditions, New Directions and a significant number of other publications on the archaeology of the Chesapeake and Middle Atlantic regions. He maintains interests in both prehistoric and historic... [More]
CAS - Anthropology
Eileen Findlay
,Associate Professor
Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Findlay's first book, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 was published with ... [More]
CAS - History
Kathleen Franz
,Associate Professor
Prof. Franz holds degrees in museum studies and American Civilization from Brown University. She specializes in 20th Century US cultural history with a focus on popular culture and the history of technology. She's also an active curator and public hi... [More]
CAS - History
Kate Haulman
,Assistant Professor
Kate Haulman is a historian of early America whose teaching and research interests also include women’s/gender, social and cultural history. She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Pres... [More]
CAS - History
Despina Kakoudaki
,Assistant Professor
Professor Kakoudaki teaches interdisciplinary courses in literature and film, visual culture, and the history of technology and new media. Her interests include cultural studies, science fiction, apocalyptic narratives, and the representation of race... [More]
CAS - Literature
William Leap
,Professor
Language in everyday life is shaped by material conditions, by ideology, by power, by resistance– and by yearnings that are never extinguished by social regulation. Professor Leap's studies of American Indian English, language and AIDS, “gay men’s En... [More]
CAS - Anthropology
Keith Leonard
,Department Chair, Literature
Author of Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights, Keith D Leonard did his master's in English at UNC Chapel and his PhD at Stanford.His publications, presentations, and courses have revolved around his study of... [More]
CAS - Literature
Marianne Noble
,Associate Professor
Professor Noble's teaching and research interests include American literature, culture studies, and gender studies, with a particular emphasis on the construction of sexuality in nineteenth-century American women's literature. She is the author of Th... [More]
CAS - Literature
Kimberly Sims
,Assistant Professor
Professors Sims has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Charles Warren Center Dissertation Writing Fellowship. She has served as tutor, research assistant, and writing instr... [More]
CAS - History
Edward Smith
,Assistant Professor
Ed Smith is a third-generation Washingtonian and has been teaching at American University since 1969. He is also a Civil War, African-American Cultural Heritage, and Art History Lecturer and Study Tour Leader for The Smithsonian Institution, The Nati... [More]
CAS - American Studies
Katharina Vester
,Director of American Studies
Katharina Vester is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the American Studies Program at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in cultural theory, transnational studies, and the dynamics of power in everyday practices. She... [More]
CAS - History
Brett Williams
,Professor
Brett Williams began her work as an anthropologist working among migrant farm workers in Illinois, exploring how they coped with terrible poverty and helping them organize a lettuce boycott and raise money for a halfway house. Since coming to Washing... [More]
CAS - Anthropology
Joshua Woodfork
,Assistant Professor
A Massachusetts native, Dr. Woodfork joined American University's Department of Anthropology in 2010, after serving as assistant professor of American Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY since 2005. He earned his PhD in American Studi... [More]
CAS - Anthropology
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