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Program Directors
- African American & African Diaspora Studies:
Sybil Williams - American Studies:
Mary Ellen Curtin - Arab World Studies:
Martyn Oliver - Asia, Pacific, & Diaspora Studies:
Hye Young Shin - Latina/o/x Studies:
David Vázquez - Women's, Gender, & 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. They a…
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Lydia X.Z. Brown Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on interpersonal and state violence against disabled people at the intersections of race, class, gender…
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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…
K. Tyler Christensen Professorial Lecturer
K. Tyler Christensen is a PhD Candidate in American Literature & Culture in the English Department at The George Washington University. The expanse of his doctoral work is concerned with storytelling …
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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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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Christina Juhasz-Wood Professorial Lecturer CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Christina Juhász-Wood is a Professorial Lecturer in the American Studies Program where she teaches courses on American culture and history, poverty, and critical refugee studies. Her work focuses on s…
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Judd King Sr Adjunct Professorial Lecturer
Judd King currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and is affiliated with the Arab World Studies Program. His primary research interests are modern political Islam, contemporary …
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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 courses in eighteenth-century literature and culture. …
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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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Elizabeth Rule Assistant Professor CAS - Critical RGC Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Rule is the Director of the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy, Assistant Professor of Professional Studies, Director of the Semester in Washington Politics Program, and Facu…
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 PhD 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 herita…
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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Andrene Taylor Adjunct Professorial Lecturer School of Prof and Extd Studies
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 since 1998 and joined the AU faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Q…
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David Vazquez Associate Professor Literature and CRGC, Program Director of Latinx Studies 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…
Quynh Vo Professorial Lecturer
Dr. Quynh Vo is a Professorial Lecturer of Asia, Pacific, and Diaspora Studies at American University. Her research interests focus on globalization and Asian literature, Asian American interdisciplin…
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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) and serves as a Faculty Affiliate of the Antiracist Research and Policy C…