AMERICAN STUDIES FACULTY
The only core person is the Director, who is chosen from any of the Affiliated Faculty.
Affiliated Faculty are drawn from all professorial levels and include over 25 faculty
froma variety of departments and programs, including: African and African Diaspora
Studies, Anthropology, Architecture, Art, Communications, cultural Studies, English,
History, Political Science, Sociology, Theater, and Women's Studies.
DIRECTOR
TOULOUSE, Teresa (PhD, Harvard Univ., 1980) Associate Professor of English; American
literature, colonial and postcolonial literatures, cultural studies
ADDERLY, Rosanne (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1996) Assistant Professor of History and
African-Diaspora Studies; African-American, African Diaspora, Caribbean, slavery
AHEARN, Barry (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1978) Professor of English; American poetry,
20th-century American literature, autobiography
BALIDES, Constance (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1996) Associate Professor of Communications;
film studies, cultural studies
CUNNINGHAM, Michael (PhD, Emory, 1994) Assistant Professor of Psychology; African-American
Psyhchology, minority adolescents
DESAI, Gaurav (PhD, Duke Univ., 1996) Assistant Professor of African Diaspora and English;
African and African Diaspora literature, post-colonial theory
DELVIN, Rachel (PhD, Yale) Assistant Professor of History
DEVINE, Joel (PhD, Indiana Univ.) Professor of Sociology; contemporary American social
problems, sociology of work and leisure
FREY, Sylvia (PhD, Tulane Univ., 1969) Professor of History; colonial and revolutionary
America, American women's history
HEARD, Malcolm (MArch, Harvard Univ., 1976) Associate Professor of Architecture; Louisiana
architecture, New Orleans
JOYCE, John (PhD, Tulane Univ.) Assistant Professor of Music; history of jazz, history of
American musical theater, musicology
KIDDER, T.R. (Ph.D. Harvard 1988) Associate Professor of Anthropology; development of
social complexity in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast.
KING, Ronald (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1981) Associate Professor of Political Science;
American government
LANGSTON, Thomas (PhD, MIT, 1989) Associate Professor of Political Science; congress and
the presidency
LATNER, Richard (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1972) Professor of History; Jacksonian America,
sectionalism, Civil War, information technology
LESTER, Hugh (MFA New Orleans Univ., 1988) Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance;
lighting and design, U.S. visual cultures
LOPEZ, Anna (PhD., Univ. of Iowa, 1986) Associate Professor of Communication; film
studies, Latin American studies
MARK, Rebecca (PhD, Stanford Univ., 1986) Associate Professor of English; Southern
literature, 20th-century American literature, feminist literary criticism, performance
studies
MASQUELIER, Adeline (PhD, Univ. of Chicago, 1993) Associate Professor of Anthropology;
cultural anthropology, religion, medicine, gender, North American Indians, West Africa
MCCLAY, Wilfred (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ., 1993) Associate Professor of History; U.S.
intellectual history
MAVEETY, Nancy (PhD, Johns Hopkins Univ.) Associate Professor of Political Science; race
and sex discrimination, civil rights and liberties
NAIR, Supriya (PhD, Univ. of Texas, 1992) Assistant Professor of English; post-colonial
literature, Caribbean literature, cultural studies
PATTON, John (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1974) Associate Professor of Communications; rhetoric
and civil rights, presidential rhetoric, Caribbean studies
PIZER, Donald (PhD, UCLA, 1955) Professor of English; American literature, 1865-1940
PLANTE, Michael (PhD, Brown Univ., 1992) Associate Professor of Art History; 20th-century
American art and architecture, history of American arg
POWELL, Lawrence (PhD, Yale Univ., 1976) Associate Professor of History; Civil War and
Reconstruction, Louisiana history
RECK, Andrew (PhD, Yale Univ., 1954) Professor of Philosophy; American philosophy,
pragmatism
REISS, Benjamin (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1997) Assistant Professor of English;
Cultural Studies, History of U.S. Popular Culture, slavery,
Jewish-American literature.
ROSE, Douglas (PhD, Univ., of Minnesota, 1970) Associate Professor of Political Science;
American government, American political culture
RUBIN, Beth (PhD, Indiana Univ., 1986) Associate Professor of Sociology; sociology of the
family, contemporary American social problems
SMITH, Felipe (PhD, Louisiana State Univ., 1988) Associate Professor of English; American
literature, African-American literature
WEISS, Ellen (Ph.D, Illinois Univ., 1984) Associate Professor of the History of
Architecture; American architectural history, Frank Lloyd Wright
ZIMMERMAN, Michael (PhD, Tulane) Professor of Philosophy; environmental philosophy
Additional Americanists at Tulane::
COLLINS, Michael--Professor of Law (practiced civil rights law); legal history
HOUCK, Oliver--Professor of Law; environmental law, esp. Louisiana
POESCH, Jessie--Professor Emerita--Southern Art
SCHAFER, Judith (PhD, Tulane Univ., 1985) Associate Director of the Program in
Political Economy--American Legal history, U.S. South
