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Patricia Albers (Professor, American Indian Studies)
Interests: Interethnic relations; anthropology
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Lisa Albrecht (Associate Professor, School of Social Work)
Interests: Feminism, anti-racism activism; Israeli-Palistinian conflict; critical pedagogy
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Ronald Aminzade (Professor, Sociology)
Interests: Social change
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John Archer (Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative Literature)
Interests: Suburbia; Architecture; Landscape; Suburban/urban history; Theories of space
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Thomas E Augst (Associate Professor, English Language and Literature)
Interests: American literature and culture
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David Born (Professor, Preventative Sciences-Health Ecology)
Interests: Preventative medicine; health practices in the U.S.

Harry Boyte (Senior Fellow, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs)
Interests: Civic engagement; youth civic engagement; international democracy promotion; national service initiatives; citizen politics.
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Bruce Braun (Associate Professor, Geography)
Interests: First Nations land rights; Constructions of indigenous; Nature, colonialism & modernity, Environment and Social Theory.
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Timothy Andres Brennan (Professor, Cultural Studies and Cmparative Literature)
Interests: comparative; history and elaboration of imperialism as a cultural fact, origins of "cultural studies;" popular music--Afro-Latin and Hip Hop.
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Rose Brewer (Associate Professor, African American & African Studies)
Interests: Black Family; Sociology; race, gender, class
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Robert 'Robin' Brown (Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature)
Interests: Linguistics; science studies, rhetoric, literacy, pedagogy
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David A.Y.O. Chang (Assistant Professor, History)
Interests: Race, Native American and African American history, Imperialism, Religion, class conflict
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Patricia Crain (Associate Professor, English, Language and Literature)
Interests: Antebellum U.S. literature, history, theory, practices of literacy, history and literature of childhood, critical pedagogy and civic engagement
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Jeffrey R. Crump(Associate Professor, Design Housing & Apparel - Housing Studies Program)
Interests: Housing - US cities and suburbs, Labor History - U.S. Midwest, race, class, gender in housing

Maria Damon (Associate Professor, English)
Interests: Poetry; Poetics; Cultural studies
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Tracy Ann Deutsch (Assistant Professor, History)
Interests: Gender, consumer culture, capitalism

Hazel Dicken-Garcia (Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication)
Interests: history of journalism
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Mary Dietz (Professor, Political Science)
Interests: Development and Political Theory
For additional information see the Political Science Faculty website

Lisa Disch (Professor, Political Science)
Interests: Contemporary political & social theory
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John M. Dolan (Associate Professor, Philosophy)
Interests: Medical ethics
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Penny A Edgell (Associate Professor, Sociology)
Interests: American religion, civic life
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Sara Evans (Regents Professor, History)
Interests: Women's social history
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James Farr (Professor, Political Science)
Interests: History of American political thought
For additional information see the Political Science Faculty website

Kirsten Fischer (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: Early American, U.S. social & intellectual history; Race, class and gender nationalism
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Philip Gersmehl (Professor, Geography)
Interests: Regionalism
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Vinay Gidwani (Assistant Professor, Geography)
Interests: Labor; Theories of agrarian & ecological change; spatialit of class & identity politics, development
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Lily Josephine Goren (Associate Professor, Political Science -- College of St. Catherine)
Interests: American political development, American political institutions, Contemporary Culture (Film, Literature, TV)
For additional information -- College of St. Catherine's Political Science Department

George Green (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: Economic history
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Edward Griffin (Professor, English Language and Literature)
Interests: Early American literature
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Dutchess Harris (Associate Professor and Chair, American Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science -- Macalester College)
Interests: Race, class & American feminism, Black public intellectuals, Black political thought, Contemporary Black feminist theory, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. health care, culturally diverse autobiography.
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Douglas Hartmann (Associate Professor, Sociology)
Interests: Race, sport, culture, theory, and interpretive methods
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H.N. Hirsch (Professor, Political Science at Macalester College)
Interests: Gender & Sexuality Constitutional law & jurisprudence; Modern political theory; American political thought
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Karen Zouwen Ho (Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
Interests: U.S. Late capitalism, culture of financial markets, post industrialism,globalization, race/ethnicity gender/ Asian American studies
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Karen Nelson Hoyle (Professor, Library, Collection and Preservation)
Interests: Children's literature.
For additional information see the Children's Literature Collection's Kerlan Collection

Mary Jo Kane (Professor, Kinesiology and Leisure Studies)
Interests: gender, sport and media analysis.
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Sally Kenney (Professor, HHH Institute of Public Affairs)
Interests: Women and politics
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Sally G. Kohlstedt (Professor, Program in History of Science and Technology, Department of Geology and Geophysics)
Interests: History of American science
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Erika Lee (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: 20th Century US, Asian American, Immigration, Comparative Race/Ethnicity, Transnationalism
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Josephine Lee (Associate Professor, English Language and Literature)
Interests: Theater history; performance theories; Asian-American studies
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Richard Leppert (Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative literature)
Interests: Music and cultural theory
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Alex Lubet (Professor, Music)
Interests: Jewish, fusion and contemporary music
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Karal Ann Marling (Professor, Art History)
Interests: American art and pop art
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Judith Martin (Professor, Geography/Urban Studies)
Interests: Broadly urban U.S. and Europe; Urban planning; American culture
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David Martinez (Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies)
Interests: American Indian intellectual history; American Indian art & aesthetics; American Indian religions.
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Keith A. Mayes (Assistant Professor, Afro-American and African Studies)
Interests: Post-1945 U.S. history, American & African American popular culture, race
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Patrick J McNamara (Assistant Professor, history)
Interests: ethnic studies; border studies
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Russell Menard (Professor, History)
Interests: Colonial history
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Louis G. Mendoza (Chair, Chicano Studies)
Interests: U.S. ethnic studies, Chicanglo studies, prison literature, U.S. immigration literature, cultural studies, language and identity, gender studies.
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Ellen Messer-Davidow (Professor, English, Language and Literature)
Interests: Gender and knowledge, social movements, and public policy
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Roger Miller (Associate Professor, Geography)
Interests: Scandinavia; geography methodology; social theory; planning history
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Scott Lauria Morgensen (Assistant Professor, Women & Gender Studies -- Macalester College)
Interests: Feminist and queer studies; racial formation of sexual politics; sexuality, race, and colonial discourses; non-Native imaginaries of indigenous people; two-spirit movements; ethnographic methods and ethics.
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Kevin P. Murphy (Assistant Professor, History)
Interests: U.S. cultural and political history, history/theory of gender and sexuality, U.S. visual culture.
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John Nichols (Professor, American Indian Studies)
Interests: American linguistics
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Lisa Norling (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: 18th and 19th century American women's history; gender and work; Atlantic world and maritime history.
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Jean O'Brien (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: U.S. colonial and American Indian history.
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Joanna O'Connell (Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese)
Interests: Spanish American literature
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Daniel Philippon (Associate Professor, Rhetoric)
Interests: Environmental studies; nature writing, regionalism and place.
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Paula Rabinowitz (Professor, English Language and Literature)
Interests: Culture theory; Feminism; Film; Working-class literature; 1930s
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Peter Rachleff (Professor, History -- Macalester College)
Interests: race, labor studies
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Guillermo Rojas (Associate Professor, Chicano Studies)
Interests: Literature and culture
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Steven Ruggles (Professor, History)
Interests: Historical demography; History of family; U.S. social history
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Harvey Sarles (Professor, Culture Studies and Comparative Literature)
Interests: Cultural criticism; Pragmatism
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Jani Scandura (Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature)
Interests: Poetry, fiction and film
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Thomas Scanlan (Associate Professor, Rhetoric)
Interests: Cultural geography
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Colleen Sheehy (Director of Education, Weisman Art Museum)
Interests: Visual and material culture; American art; Vernacular landscapes; public art; Architecture; Museum practice
For additional information see the Weisman Art Museum website.

Eric Sheppard (Professor, Geography)
Interests: Economic geography, urban and regional development; philosophy and method in the social sciences, critical GIS, environmental justice, the historical geography of ideas.
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Robert Silberman (Associate Professor, Art History)
Interests: Film and photography
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Katherine M. Solomonson (Associate Professor, Architecture)
Interests: History of architecture
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Brian G. Southwell (Assistant Professor, Journalism & Mass Communication)
Interests: Intersection of popular culture and health behavior in U.S., public understanding of science
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Dara Zippora Strolovitch (Assistant Professor, Political Science)
Interests: Social movements and group politics, politics of gender, race/ethnicity, class and sexuality.
For additional information see the Political Science Faculty website.

Eden Torres (Associate Professor, Women's Studies)
Interests: Chicano Literature; Migrant issues
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David Treuer (Assistant Professor, English. Language and Literature)
Interests: Native American literature; 20th century international literature; Native American languages: translation
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David Valentine (Assistant Professor, Anthropology)
Interests: Gender, sexuality, transgender identity,
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Rudolph Vecoli (Professor, History)
Interests: Immigration history
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Haidee S. Wasson (Assistant Professor, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature)
Interests: Film, television and museum culture.
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Barbara Welke (Associate Professor, History)
Interests: Constitutional legal women's history
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David E Wilkins (Professor, American Indian Studies)
Interests: Political/legal relationship between indiginous nations & U.S. and State governments.
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John Wright (Professor, African American & African Studies)
Interests: Anthropology; Harlem Rennaisance
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Michelle M. Wright (Associate Professor, English - Macalester College)
Interests: African American 19th and 20th century, literature, culture and theory.
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Jack Zipes (Professor, German, Scandinavian and Dutch)
Interests: American literature; Fairy tales
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Jacqueline Zita (Associate Professor, Women's Studies)
Interests: Feminist philosophy; Queer theory
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