Chair

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Jonathan Tazewell

Thomas S. Turgeon Professor of Drama and Film
Areas of Expertise
Theater directing, filmmaking, acting
Campus
Address
Hill Theater 201
Phone Number
(740) 427-5538

Faculty

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Patrick Bottiger

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
History of North American Indigenous Peoples; Ancient America; the American Revolution and Ohio Valley; the History of Three Sisters polyculture farming; Red Power and Indigenous Activism; Agricultural History and Corn
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 324
Phone Number
(740) 427-5597

Alex Brostoff

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
20th and 21st century hemispheric American studies; comparative literature; cultural studies; literary and critical theory; trans and queer studies; translation studies; autotheory
Campus
Address
Lentz House 207
Phone Number
(740) 427-5105

Sylvie Coulibaly

Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
African American intellectual tradition; immigration, border studies and transnationalism; Atlantic history
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 425
Phone Number
(740) 427-5624
 

Juan DePascuale

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Areas of Expertise
Existentialism and phenomenology, Zen Buddhism, philosophy of art and philosophy of religion, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 213
Phone Number
(740) 427-5284

H. Abbie Erler

Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
American politics, women and politics, political reform.
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 429
Phone Number
(740) 427-5733

Francis Gourrier

Associate Professor of American Studies and History
Areas of Expertise
African American, 20th Century U.S., Gender, Movement/s, and Education
Campus
Address
O'Connor House 203
Phone Number
(740) 427-4275772

Austin Johnson

Associate Professor of Sociology
Areas of Expertise
LGBTQ Sociology, medical sociology, social psychology
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 322
Phone Number
(740) 427-4275058

Zachary McGee

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Congress, political parties, public policy
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 421
Phone Number
(740) 427-4275641

Glenn McNair

Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Race and criminal justice, slavery and southern history, the dynamics of African-American identity formation
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 315
Phone Number
(740) 427-5325

Austin Porter

Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies
Areas of Expertise
American Art and Visual Culture, Art and Government, Modern and Contemporary Art
Campus
Address
Gund Gallery 112
Phone Number
(740) 427-5426
 

Nancy Powers

Assoc Dir of the Center for the Study of American Democracy
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Areas of Expertise
Immigration, Latin American politics, global poverty, democratic theory in comparative perspective, political activism
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 313
Phone Number
(740) 427-5313

John Rufo

Assistant Professor of American Studies
Areas of Expertise
Abolition; Black feminism; critiques of racial capitalism; prison and policing; cultural theory; autobiography; rhetorical tropes (metaphor/metonymy)
Campus
Address
Oden Hall 220

Matthew Suazo

Assistant Professor of English
Areas of Expertise
Hemispheric American literature, early and nineteenth-century, literature and environment, postcolonial studies, slave narrative and autobiography
Campus
Address
Waite House 202
Phone Number
(740) 427-5321

Emeriti

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Ennis Edmonds

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
African diaspora religions, religion in America, sociology of religion and Caribbean society and culture.

Peter Rutkoff

Professor Emeritus of American Studies
Special Advisor to the Dean of Admissions/VP for Enrollment
Campus
Address
Lowell House

Howard Sacks

Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Campus
 

Gregory Spaid

Professor Emeritus of Art
Areas of Expertise
Photography, mixed media, drawing, art education.
Campus