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CRGC Chair & Administration
Monica Morin Sr. Administrative Assistant CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Program Directors
- African American and African Diaspora Studies:
Sybil Williams - American Studies:
Mary Ellen Curtin - Arab World Studies:
Martyn Oliver - Asian Studies:
Hye Young Shin - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:
Amy Barber
All CRGC Faculty
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Tanja Aho Professorial Lecturer CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Dr Tanja Aho is a Professorial Lecturer in American Studies, where Dr Aho teaches classes focused on disability and madness, settler colonialism and racial capitalism, and gender and sexuality. Dr Aho…
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Irene Calis Professorial Lecturer CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Irene Calis is a decolonial scholar, educator, and organizer. Her research focuses on emancipatory politics from the perspective of those living their struggle. It is rooted in the radical transformat…
Donald Collins Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Donald Earl Collins is a freelance writer and historian who has written on the topics of multiculturalism, education reform, race, and the history of African American and American identity for more th…
Robert B. Connelly, Jr. Sr Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Bob Connelly is a senior adjunct professorial lecturer of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Bob received his M.F.A. in Film and Electronic Media at American University, and began teaching LGBTQ f…
Mary Ellen Curtin Associate Professor CAS - American Studies
Mary Ellen Curtin has a Ph.d from Duke University and is a historian of modern African American and women's social and political history. Her first book Black Prisoners and Their World documented the …
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Morad El Sana Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Elsana is an adjunct professor at the American University. Prior, he served as a professor of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Dr. Elsa…
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Eileen Findlay Professor and Department Chair, Critical RGC Studies CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Eileen Findlay graduated from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she held a Jacob Javits fellowship. Both her books, 'We Are Left Without a Father Here': Masculinity, Dome…
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Anthony Gualtieri Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
As a public anthropologist working in the District of Columbia, I research creative economic development, placemaking, public policy, and inequality.
Mustafa Gurbuz Sr Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Mustafa Gurbuz is a political sociologist whose research focuses on political violence and terrorism, conflict resolution, social movements, Muslims in the West, and ethnic/sectarian politics in the M…
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Keith Leonard Associate Professor CAS - Literature
Keith D Leonard is the author of Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. His publications, presentations, and courses have revolved around his study of politica…
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Sarah Marsh Sr Professorial Lecturer CAS - Literature
Sarah Marsh is appointed jointly in AU's Department of Literature and Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, where she teaches at the intersections of literature, medical humanities…
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Martyn Oliver Director, Arab World Studies CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Martyn was born and raised in southern Minnesota. In addition to Washington State and Boston, his studies also took him to Scotland, Lebanon, Austria, and Morocco. His work explores the construction o…
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Theresa Runstedtler Associate Professor CAS - History
Theresa Runstedtler is a scholar of African American history whose research examines black popular culture, with a particular focus on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. She is t…
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Hye Young Shin Professorial Lecturer CAS - World Languages and Cultures
Dr. Shin received her Ph.D. in Multilingual and Multicultural Education from George Mason University and Master’s degree in TESOL from American University. As a native Korean, she has taught both heri…
Elke Stockreiter Associate Professor CAS - History
Elke Stockreiter is a historian of modern Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the histories of colonialism, gender, race, and slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Trained as a…
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Alison Thomas Hurst Sr Professorial Lecturer CAS - Literature
Alison Thomas has taught at AU since 2005, and has offered courses in the Department of Literature and in the American Studies Program. Her research focuses on information literacy and the teaching o…
Sarah Trembath Professorial Lecturer CAS - Literature
Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, and educator. She has been teaching college-level composition since 2008 and joined the AU faculty in 2014. Her work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe …
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David Vazquez Associate Professor CAS - Literature
David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies. He teaches courses on comparative Latina/o/x literature, comparative ethnic American literature, c…
Katharina Vester Associate Professor CAS - History
Katharina Vester is Associate Professor of History & American Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in cultural theory, transnational studies, and the dynamics of power in…
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Sybil Williams Director of African American and African Diaspora Studies CAS - Performing Arts
Sybil R. Williams has spent the past twelve years cultivating her craft as a playwright and dramaturg. Her work has been professionally produced by Chicago’s ETA Creative Arts Theatre; New York’s Nati…
Li (Lily) Wong Associate Professor CAS - Literature
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies (CRGC) at American University. Her research focuses on the politics of affect/em…