Faculty

Charles Russell
Program Director and Associate Professor of English.
Ph. D. Cornell University.
Contemporary literature and art; vernacular visual culture.

Frances Bartkowski
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies.
Ph.D. University of Iowa. 
Comparative Literature, 20th Century French and American Narrative; Feminist Theory.

Sterling Bland
Chair of the Department of African-American and African Studies and Associate Professor of English.
Ph.D. New York University.
Nineteenth-century American literature; African American literature and culture; autobiography; narrative theory; theory of the novel; and jazz studies.

Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield
Acting Director of the Women's Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Ph.D. University of Michigan.
Race and ethnicity, immigration, urban education, identity development and culture, and urban sociology.

Susan Lisa Carruthers
Associate Professor of History,The United States
and the World.
Ph.D., Leeds University, UK.
US foreign relations; media history; comparative
colonial history.

Kimberly DaCosta Holton
Assistant Professor and Program Director, Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies. 
Ph.D. Northwestern University. 
Performance Studies, Migration Studies, Urban Festivity, Ethnography and Oral History.

Belinda Edmondson
Associate Professor of English and African-American
& African Studies.
Ph.D. Northwestern University.
Caribbean and other African diaspora literatures, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, popular culture.

Ruth Feldstein
Associate Professor of History.
Ph.D. Brown University. 
U.S. History, with focus on 20th century culture and politics, women's and gender history, and African American history.

Barbara Foley
Professor of English. 
Ph.D. University of Chicago. 
African-American literature; U.S. literary radicalism; Marxist literary theory.

H. Bruce Franklin
John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies.  Ph.D. Stanford University. 
Vietnam and America; crime and punishment in America; science fiction, technology, and society; the American environment.

James Goodman
Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University.
Modern United States history; race relations and politics; history as literature; literature as history.

David Hoddeson
Associate Professor of English.
Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Major field: Modernism.

John Howland
Assistant Professor of Music.
Ph.D. Stanford University.
Jazz studies; pre-1960 popular music; American Discourses on race, class; music in media.

Elizabeth Hull
Department Chair and Professor of Political Science.
Ph.D. New School for Social Research.
United States Constitutional Interpretation; United States Civil Rights and Liberties Policies; Administrative Law; American Government; Ethnic and Migration Studies

Jyl Josephson
Director of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science Department.   

Malcolm Kiniry
Associate Professor of English.

Carmen Kynard
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Education.

Jamie Lew
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Education.
Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University.

Jan Lewis
Professor of History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, FAS-N
Ph.D., The University of Michigan
U.S. History to the 1830s; history of gender, race, family.

Laura Lomas
Assistant Professor of American Literature
Ph.D., Columbia University
Late 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Latino/a Literature and Culture, Comparative American Studies, Translation, Feminist and Post-Colonial Theory

Neil M. Maher
Associate Professor of History.
Ph.D. New York University.
20-century United States history, environmental history, political history, and urban history; landscape studies.

Lewis Porter
Professor of Music.
Ph.D. Brandeis University.
All aspects of jazz culture, history and performance; professional jazz pianist.

Byron E. Price
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration.
Ph.D. Mississippi State University.
Contemporary literature and art; vernacular visual culture.

Clement Alexander Price
Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience.
Ph.D. Rutgers University
African-American history; urban history; public history; history of New Jersey.

Alan R. Sadovnik
Professor of Education, Sociology and Public Affairs.
Ph.D. New York University.
Sociology of education; urban educational reform and improvement; history of progressive education.

Beryl Satter
Department Chair and Associate Professor of History.
Ph.D., American Studies, Yale University, 1992. 
Post-Civil War U.S. history; women's history; cultural and intellectual history; urban history.

Mary Segers
Professor of Political Science.
Ph.D. Columbia University.
Political philosophy and theory; religion and politics, ethical issues and public policy.

Mara Sidney
Associate Professor of Political Science.
Ph.D. University of Colorado.
Urban politics, public policy, race/ethnicity and politics.

Robert W. Snyder
Journalism and Media Studies.
Ph.D., History, New York University
Research: Journalism, Urban History, Public History

Paul Sternberger
Associate Professor of Art History.
Ph.D. Columbia University.
American Art; History of Photography; History of Design.

Anna Stubblefield
Associate Professor of Philosophy.
Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
African-American philosophy, whiteness studies, disability studies, philosophy of education, ethics.

David Dante Troutt
Professor of Law
J. D. Harvard Law School
Torts; Business Torts and Intellectual Property; Community Economic Development; Jurisprudence Seminar on Race, Literature, and Critical Theory. 


Ian Watson
Professor of Theatre.
Ph.D. New York University.
Performance studies, intercultural performance, directing: theory and practice, 20th century theatre, performer training, performance in media and politics.


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