Faculty

Robert Abzug
Professor
Area interests Social reform and religious life in antebellum America, America and the Holocaust, religion and psychology in modern American culture

Janet Davis
Associate Professor
Area interests American popular culture, American foreign relations,animals, American social movements, working class culture, modern South Asia

Elizabeth Engelhardt
Associate Professor
Area interests Feminist theories, ecological literature and culture, food culture, material culture studies

Neil Foley
Associate Professor
Area interests Borderlands history, Mexican American history, Race and Ethnicity in the U.S., comparative civil rights

Steven Hoelscher
Associate Professor
Area interests North American urbanism, social constructions of space and place, cultural memory, the geography of tourism, the history of photography

Nhi Lieu
Assistant Professor
Area interests Race and ethnicity, 20th century immigration, gender and cultural history, consumer culture, transnationalism

Jose Limon
Professor

Stephen Marshall
Assistant Professor

Jeffrey Meikle
Professor
Area interests History of design, architecture, and technology, postmodernism, material culture

Julia Mickenberg
Associate Professor
Area interests History of the Left, history of childhood and education, women's history, nationalism, children's literature, and mid-twentieth century cultural politics.

Mark Smith
Associate Professor
Area interests American cultural history of alcohol and drugs, 20th century American social thought, American intellectual history

Shirley Thompson
Assistant Professor
Area interests 19th century cultural history, narratives of slave and freedom, race and ethnicity, African American literature