Graduate School Open House scheduled for August 1, 2009
Posted on 07/01/09
Jane Barnette, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies
B.S. Northwestern University
M.A. University of Texas--Austin
Ph.D. University of Texas--Austin
Train culture; Chicago history; theatre history; 1870-1920; dramaturgy; feminist and performance theory.
Webpage:
Email: jbarne48@kennesaw.edu
Jesse Benjamin, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice
B.A. Friends World College, Long Island University
M.A. S.U.N.Y. Binghamton
Ph.D. S.U.N.Y. Binghamton
Critical race theory, post-colonial theory, whiteness studies, pan-Africanism, world systems theory and epistemology.
Webpage:
Email: jbenjam2@kennesaw.edu
Ed Chan, Associate Professor of English
B.A. University of California, Riverside
M.A. California State University, Fullerton
Ph.D. University of Rochester
20th / 21st C. American literary, film, and cultural studies; critical race studies; utopian and science fiction.
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: echan@kennesaw.edu
Jim Elledge, Professor of English
B.A. Eastern Illinois University
M.S.L.S. Eastern Illinois University
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago
Creative writing, queer studies (U.S., 1880-1945), outsider artist Henry Darger, contemporary U.S. poetry, prosody, small press and literary publishing Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: jelledg1@kennesaw.edu
Emron Esplin, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
B.A. Brigham Young University
M.A. Brigham Young University
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Inter-American Literary Studies/Literatures of the Americas, 19th-20th Century U.S. Literature, 20th Century Spanish American Literature, The Mexican Revolution.
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: eesplin@kennesaw.edu
Donald Fay, Associate Professor of English
B.A. Shimer College
M.A. Emory University
20/21st C. American literature and cultural Studies; jazz and blues; African American literature; Jalaluddin Rumi; middle eastern literature
Webpage:
Email: dfay@kennesaw.edu
Dorothy Graham, Professor of English
B.A. Mercer University
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. Georgia State University
19th-Century American Literature-intellectual history and Jungian perspectives; film Studies--genre, film adaptation, and women in film
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: dgraham@kennesaw.edu
Hannah B. Harvey, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Artistic Director of The KSU Tellers
B.A. Furman University
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Performance ethnography; storytelling; the body in performance; cultural performance; adaptation of literature; oral and labor history; the politics of performance.
Webpage:
Email: hharvey3@kennesaw.edu
Timothy Hedeen, Associate Professor of Conflict Management
B.A. Syracuse University
M.A. Syracuse University
Ph.D. Syracuse University
Community dispute resolution; social movements; American justice; program evaluation; democratic pedagogy; collaborative decision-making
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~tkhedeen/
Email: tkhedeen@kennesaw.edu
LeeAnn Lands, Associate Professor of History and American Studies
B.S.E. University of Florida
M.A. Florida Atlantic University
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Urban studies; housing inequality; housing cultures; geographies of race and class
Extended Biography
Email: llands@kennesaw.edu
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~llands/
Catherine M. Lewis, Associate Professor of History
B.A. Emory University
M.A. University of Iowa
Ph.D. University of Iowa
Museums and public history; women’s history; sports history; immigrant Literature, 1840-1940; the Holocaust
Extended Biography
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~clewis1/
Email: clewis1@kennesaw.edu
Kenneth F. Maffitt, Assistant Professor of History
B.A. Washington University in St. Louis
M.A. Stanford University
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Modern Mexico, 20th / 21st C. Latin American and U.S. history; working-class studies, immigration, cities and suburbs, consumption and leisure, citizenship and rights.
Webpage:
Email: kmaffitt@kennesaw.edu
Nina Yermakov Morgan, Associate Professor of English and Asst. Director of the Center for the Development of Asian Studies
B.A. University of California, Riverside
M.A. University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Critical theory; Asian American literature; 20th C. American literature; globalization and labor; womens studies
Webpage:
Email: nmorgan@kennesaw.edu
Linda Grant Niemann, Associate Professor of English
B.A. University of California at Santa Cruz
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley
Regional literature; border studies; travel literature; memoir; non-fiction; literature of the Americas
Webpage:
Email: lniemann@kennesaw.edu
Elsa A. Nystrom, Professor of History
B.A. Judson College
M.A. Loyola University of Chicago
Ph.D. Loyola University of Chicago
19th and 20th century social and cultural history, colonial america, popular culture, comic strips and sports, history of auto racing, NASCAR, EU-US cultural relationships
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~enystrom/
Email: enystrom@kennesaw.edu
Daniel S. Papp, President, Kennesaw State University
Political Science and American Studies
B.S. Dartmouth College
Ph.D. University of Miami
International security policy, U.S. and Russian foreign and defense policies, international system change, and the impact of information and communication technologies on national security and the international system
Extended Biography
Webpage: http://www.kennesaw.edu/president/index.html
Email: dpapp@kennesaw.edu
Daniel J. Paracka, Jr., Assistant Professor of University Studies, Director of International Services and Programs
B.A. St. Andrews Presbyterian College
M.S. West Chester State University
Ph.D. Georgia State University
America in the world; media studies
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: dparacka@kennesaw.edu
David B. Parker, Professor of History
B.A. Duke University
M.A. University of North Carolina
Ph.D. University of North Carolina
American and southern social/cultural history; American religion
Webpage:
Email: dparker@kennesaw.edu
Randall L. Patton, Professor of History
B.A. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Southern studies, business and labor history
Webpage:
Email: rpatton@kennesaw.edu
Jim Piecuch, Assistant Professor of History
B.A. University of New Hampshire Manchester
M.A. University of New Hampshire,
Ph.D. The College of William & Mary
Colonial and Revolutionary America, US foreign relations, Native American history, and Early Republic (1787-1850)
Webpage:
Email: jpiecuch@kennesaw.edu
Kay A. Reeve, Professor of History
B.S.Ed. Texas Tech University
M.A. Texas Tech University
Ph.D. Texas A&M University
History of the American West, with social, cultural and environmental emphases; the American West in image and imagination; historiography of the west; the gilded age and progressive movement, social and cultural emphasis
Webpage:
Email: kreeve@kennesaw.edu
Sarah Robbins, Professor of English and English Education
B.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Writing in American culture; American literary history; community studies; gender, race and class in American culture; educational issues in American culture; popular culture; civic engagement; interdisciplinary methods
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: srobbins@kennesaw.edu
M. Susan Rouse, Professor of Philosophy
B.A. Florida State University
Ph.D. Florida State University
American Philosophy, American pragmatism, history of western philosophy
Webpage:
Email: srouse@kennesaw.edu
Thomas A. Scott, Professor of History
B.S. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
M.A. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph.D. University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Suburban history, southern history, local history
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~tscott/
Email: tscott@kennesaw.edu
Ernesto Pierre Silva, Assistant Professor of Spanish
B.A. University of California, Irvine
M.A. University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine
Contemporary Spanish/Latin American film, literature, and theater; cultural studies; immigration issues
Webpage:
Email: esilva@kennesaw.edu
Linda Stewart, Assistant Professor of English
B.A. University of New Hampshire, Durham
M.A.T. University of New Hampshire, Durham
M.A. University of New Hampshire, Durham
Cultural landscape studies; visual culture; Chicago history; Suburbia; Community-based interdisciplinary studies; War critic Virginia Woolf
Extended Biography
Website:
E-mail: lstewar2@kennesaw.edu
Eva M. Thompson, Associate Professor of English and American Studies
B.A. Winston-Salem State University
M.A. The Ohio State University, Columbus
Ph.D. The Ohio State University, Columbus
Literature of slavery in the Americas; 19th century autobiography of the African diaspora; cultural/social/literary movements of the 1950s and 1960s, e.g., the modern civil rights movement, black power movement and black arts movement; historical fiction
Webpage:
Email: ethompso@kennesaw.edu
Ugena Whitlock, Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Adolescent Education
B.S. Ed. Athens State University, Athens, Alabama
M.Ed. Coppin State College, Baltimore, Maryland
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Curriculum studies; southern Studies; womens and gender studies; queer studies; race, class, gender in social, political, and educational contexts; pop culture; teacher education
Webpage: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~rwhitlo3/
Email: rwhitlo3@kennesaw.edu
Dede Yow, Professor of English and American Studies
B.A. Agnes Scott College
M.A. University of Georgia
Ph.D. University of Georgia
Southern mythmaking in literature and history; rural and blue collar Southern writers; civil rights movement in the South; status of women in the Old South and the New South
Extended Biography
Webpage:
Email: dyow@kennesaw.edu
Posted on 05/28/09
The M.A. in AS (MAST) program announces a Spring 2010 admission cycle for the program. All application materials are due in the Graduate Admissions office by November 1, 2009.
Posted on 05/13/09
Students who have applied to the MA in American Studies (MAST) program for this coming year are invited to apply for our Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) program.