Faculty
American Studies at Kenyon is taught by a wide range of scholars in a variety of fields.
Peter Rutkoff
Professor of American Studies, Chair
Contact Information:
O'Connor House 203
740-427-5317
rutkoff@kenyon.edu
Visit Peter's website.
Read Peter's biography.
Sylvie Coulibaly
Assistant Professor of History
Areas of Expertise: African American intellectual tradition; Immigration, border studies and trans nationalism; and Atlantic history
Contact Information:
Seitz House 07
740-427-5624
coulibalys@kenyon.edu
Read Sylvie Coulibaly's biography.
Melissa Dabakis
Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise: American and Modern European Art History
Contact Information:
Gund Gallery 115
740-427-5345
dabakis@kenyon.edu
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Ennis B. Edmonds
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Chair
Areas of Expertise: African diaspora religions, religion in America, sociology of religion, and Caribbean society and culture.
Contact Information:
Ascension Hall 312
740-427-5726
edmondse@kenyon.edu
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John M. Elliott
Harry M. Clor Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise: American politics, public policy, the news media and American politics
Contact Information:
Horwitz House 02
740-427-5312
elliottj@kenyon.edu
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Lewis Hyde
Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing (Fall only)
Contact Information:
Sunset Cottage 02
740-427-5343
hyde@kenyon.edu
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Read Lewis Hyde's biography.
P.F. Kluge
Writer-in-Residence
Contact Information:
Finn House 104
740-427-5407
klugef@kenyon.edu
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Read P.F. Kluge's biography.
David Lynn
Professor of English, Editor of The Kenyon Review
Contact Information:
Finn House 114
740-427-5271
lynnd@kenyon.edu
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Read David Lynn's biography.
Glenn M. McNair
Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise: Civil rights, slavery and Southern history, criminal justice history, African American political and intellectual culture, dynamics of American identity formation
Contact Information:
O'Connor House 205
740-427-5325
mcnairg@kenyon.edu
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Kim McMullen
John Crowe Ransom Professor of English
Contact Information:
Lentz House 207
740-427-5185
mcmullen@kenyon.edu
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Sam Pack
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Expertise: Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Navajo
Contact Information:
105 Palme House
740-427-5888
pack@kenyon.edu
Howard L. Sacks
Professor of Sociology
Contact Information:
Treleaven House 201
740-427-5850
sacksh@kenyon.edu
William B. Scott
Professor of History
Areas of Expertise: American intellectual, cultural, and Southern history
Contact Information:
Acland House 23
740-427-5640
scott@kenyon.edu
Ric S. Sheffield
Director of Law and Society, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies (On Leave)
Contact Information:
sheffier@kenyon.edu
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Judy R. Smith
Professor Emerita
Areas of Expertise: American literature, American studies, women's and gender studies
Contact Information:
smithju@kenyon.edu
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Gregory P. Spaid
Professor of Studio Art
Areas of Expertise: Photography, mixed media, drawing
Contact Information:
Horvitz Hall 208
740-427-5976
spaidg@kenyon.edu
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Thomas P. Stamp
College Historian and Keeper of Kenyoniana
Contact Information:
101 Bexley Hall
740-427-5577
stamp@kenyon.edu
Jonathan Tazewell
Thomas S. Turgeon Professor of Drama
Areas of Expertise: Film/Video Production and History, African American Theater
Contact Information:
Shaffer (Hill Theater) 202
740-427-5538
tazewellj@kenyon.edu
Read Jonathan Tazewell's biography.
Jan E. Thomas
Professor of Sociology, Associate Provost
Contact Information:
thomasj@kenyon.edu