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AMERICAN STUDIES
American Studies
413 Barnard Hall
854-5649
www.barnard.edu/amstud
This program is supervised by the Committee on American Studies:
Director: Jennie Kassanoff (Associate Professor of English)
Professors: Nan Rothschild (Anthropology), Lynn Garafola (Dance), David Weiman (Economics), Lisa Gordis (English), William Sharp (English), Robert A. McCaughey (History), Rosalind Rosenberg (History), Mark C. Carnes (History), Herbert Sloan (History), Flora Davidson (Political Science and Urban Studies), Richard Pious (Political Science), Randall Balmer (Religion), Jonathan Rieder (Sociology), Alfred Mac Adam (Spanish and Latin American Cultures)
Associate Professors: Alan Dye (Economics)
Assistant Professors: Severin Fowles (Anthropology), David Smiley (Architecture), Elizabeth Hutchinson (Art History), Monica Miller (English), Elizabeth Esch (History and American Studies), Lori Minnite (Political Science), Kathleen Knight (Political Science), Peter Levin (Sociology), Shawn-Marie Garrett (Theatre), Elizabeth Bernstein (Women’s Studies)
Senior Associate: Katie Glasner (Dance)
Senior Lecturer: Margaret Vandenburg (English)
Director of the Center for Research on Women: Janet Jakobsen
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
The Program in American Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the society and cultures of the United States. American Studies majors examine the changing narratives and practices of American domestic and international arrangements in a curriculum that emphasizes both historical depth and theoretical breadth.
As an American Studies major, you will have the opportunity to take courses in American history, literature and other related disciplines. In addition to the junior colloquium, you will work with your adviser to devise a four-course concentration organized around a topic (for example: immigration, migration and ethnicity) and a historical period (for example: Civil War and Reconstruction). This four-course cluster will serve as the intellectual foundation of your year-long senior thesis.