Carleton College: American Studies: American Studies Faculty and Staff (Text Only)

American Studies Faculty and Staff

American Studies

Phone: (507) 222-5769
Fax: (507) 222-7594

Faculty

Nancy J. Cho

Professor of English
Director of American Studies

Office: Goodsell Observatory 204

Phone: x4315

Email: ncho@carleton.edu

Adriana Estill

Associate Professor of English and American Studies

Office: Laird Hall 207A

Phone: x7498

Email: aestill@carleton.edu

Adriana arrived at Carleton after teaching at the University of New Mexico and the University of Arizona. Her teaching and research interests include U.S. Latino literature (especially poetry), Latino Studies, the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity in various genres of cultural expressions. She's hard at work on the topic of Latina feminine beauty in literature and the mass media.

Beth McKinsey

Professor of English and American Studies

Office: Language and Dining Center 211

Phone: x5900

Email: emckinse@carleton.edu

With a joint appointment in English and American Studies, Beth’s teaching interests include colonial, early national, and 19th century American literature, history and art history. She teaches a seminar in American Studies on The Sublime in America. An “old hand” at Carleton (she came in 1989 as Dean of the College), she is “new” to the classroom in 2003 (though she taught for years at Harvard University and Bryn Mawr College).

Robert E. Bonner

Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Prof of History & the Lib Arts, Emer

Office: Chapel 255

Phone: x4212

Email: rbonner@carleton.edu

Robert Bonner, Director Emeritus, in his Big Horn Office.

Staff

Tami Little

Admin. Asst. to Amst, Ents, Ling, Arc Programs
Administrative Assistant in Women's and Gender Studies

Office: Goodsell Observatory 102

Phone: x5769

Email: tlittle@carleton.edu

Tami is available to assist American Studies faculty and majors Monday-Friday between the hours of 9am-4pm during the academic year.

Other Faculty Involved In The Department/Program

Deborah Appleman

Hollis L. Caswell Professor of Educational Studies
Chair of Educational Studies

Office: Willis Hall 106

Phone: x4010

Email: dapplema@carleton.edu

Associate director of American Studies

Clifford E. Clark, Jr.

Professor of History and M.A. and A.D. Hulings Professor of American Studies

Office: Leighton Hall 206

Phone: x4208

Email: cclark@carleton.edu

Former director of American Studies.

Richard A. Keiser

Professor of Political Science
Chair of Political Science

Office: Willis Hall 417

Phone: x4122

Email: rkeiser@carleton.edu

Professor Keiser received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. His research focuses on progressive politics in America's big cities. In 1997 he published Subordination or Empowerment? which analyzed the formation and disintegration of coalitions that advance African-American political empowerment. He coedited Minority Politics at the Millennium, which was published in 2000. His current research examines the relationship between cities and suburbs in the current era. Prof. Keiser teaches the introductory course on liberty and equality in America, as well as courses on urban and suburban political economy, poverty and public policy, and the Presidency.

Director of American Studies 2004-2007

Michael J. Kowalewski

McBride Professor of English and Environmental Studies
Chair of English

Office: Laird Hall 210

Phone: x4323

Email: mkowalew@carleton.edu

Michael Kowalewski, Professor of English and former director of American Studies. He joined the Carleton faculty in 1991 after teaching for several years at Princeton University. He has a special interest in regionalism and "place" in American art and culture. He was the creator and director of the only American Studies off-campus program to date: "Visions of California" (offered in 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004).

Director of American Studies 2001-2004

Beverly Y. Nagel

Dean of the College
Winifred and Atherton Bean Professor of Sociology, Science, Technology, and Society

Office: Laird Hall 143

Phone: x4303

Email: bnagel@carleton.edu

Robert G. Tisdale

Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of English and the Liberal Arts, Emeritus

Office: Laird Hall 302

Phone: x4316

Email: rtisdale@carleton.edu

Former director of American Studies

Harry M. Williams

Laird Bell Professor of History

Office: Leighton Hall 212

Phone: x5241

Email: hwilliam@carleton.edu

Since 1989. Lincoln University B.A., Missouri M.A., Brown A.M., Ph.D. African American history with primary teaching interests in 19th c. slavery studies, social and intellectual history, black conservatism, and cultural studies. Secondary teaching interests include the Black Atlantic with emphasis on Ghana (Gold Coast) and the United States, and the Concord intellectuals. Research interest George S. Schuyler (1895-1977). Bibliography. Created and leads Carleton's Ghana Program: Ghana program.

Serena R. Zabin

Associate Professor of History

Office: Leighton Hall 219

Phone: x7160

Email: szabin@carleton.edu

Since 2000. Bowdoin B.A., U. North Carolina-Chapel Hill M.A., Rutgers Ph.D. Colonial America, Early Modern Atlantic World, Age of Revolutions, the Early Republic, women, race & gender in American history. Bibliography.