Faculty

Professor of Art History
41 Wyllys Ave 304
860-685-3148

Professor, American Studies
41 Wyllys Ave
860-685-3148

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-3148

Chair, American Studies

emilroy@wesleyan.edu

BA Queens University
MA Williams College
PHD University of Pennsylvania

AMST210 - 01
The Study of Material Culture

ARHA271 - 01
Making & Marketing Amer. Art

AMST375 - 01
Villa Style & Lifestyle

Office Hours:
<strong>Spring 2012:</strong> Tuesdays, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. or by appointment, Office 304 in the new Squash Courts Building, 41 Wyllys Avenue

Research Interests:
Elizabeth Milroy teaches the history of art and material culture in North America. Her courses range from general surveys of art in the United States and Canada from First Contact to 1945, to courses treating the history of sculpture and courses in the history of cultural landscapes and historic preservation to advanced seminars in cultural institutions and exhibitionary practices as well as the work of individual artists such as Thomas Eakins and Georgia O'Keeffe. She also teaches a junior colloquium on material culture studies for the America Studies program. A specialist in the history of cultural institutions and cultural landscapes in the United States, in particular those in Philadelphia, she has organized exhibitions and has published numerous articles and catalogue essays. Her most recent publications include "For the like Uses, as the Moore-Fields: The Politics of Penns Squares,"in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (2006); "Repairing the Myth and Reality of Penn's Squares: 1800-1850," in Change Over Time (2011). Her essay, "Pro Bono Publico: Ecology, History and the Creation of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park System" is forthcoming in Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia's Urban Sphere and its Environmental Thresholds, edited by Michael Chiarrappa and Brian Black (University of Pittsburgh Press; for 2012). Her current book project is "The Grid and the River: A History of Philadelphia's Green Spaces, 1682-1882."

Scholarly Keywords:
American Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Canadian Art (painting, sculpture, graphic arts), 17th to 20th centuries Cultural Landscape Studies Material Culture Studies

Academic Associations:
College Art Association American Studies Association American Society for Environmental History Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Historical Society of Pennsylvania External Examiner, Sotheby's Institute of Art (University of Manchester, UK), 2007-10 Winterthur Portfolio Editorial Board

Grants:
NEH Research Fellowship, 2002 Project Grant, Wesleyan University, 2001 Pedagogical Grant, Wesleyan University 1997/98 Keck Mentorship Grant. Wesleyan University 1997 Charles Peterson Fellowship in Architectural History. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1996/97 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1996 Mellon Fellowship, The Library Company of Philadelphia 1995 Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University 1992 Mellon Residential Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society 1992 Research Grant, American Philosophical Society 1992 NEH Summer Stipend 1992 NEH Travel to Collections Grant 1992 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Grant 1991 NEH Exhibition Planning Grant 1989 Penfield Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1983

Editorial Boards:

Winterthur Portfolio

Change Over Time

BA University of California, Santa Barbara
MA University of California, San Diego
PHD University of California, San Diego

Personal Homepage:
http://cmgonzales.faculty.wesleyan.edu

BA College of Wooster
PHD Harvard University

AMST175 - 01
American Soundscapes

AMST386 - 01
Mapping Metropolis

AMST236 - 01
Religion and National Culture

AMST326 - 01
Intimacy Matters

Office Hours:
ON LEAVE SPRING 2012

Research Interests:
Professor of History Patricia Hill specializes in 19th-century U.S. cultural, women, and religious history. Her study, The World Their Household, examines the ways in which the Protestant mission movement worked to produce cultural transformations abroad while reflexively transforming American culture. She has participated in recent regional and national discussions focusing on internationalizing the American Studies curriculum.

BA Calif St U Los Angls
PHD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

AMST273 - 01
The Politics of Obscenity

AMST301 - 01
Digital Humanities

Associate Professor of English
285 Court Street 110
860-685-3625

Associate Professor, American Studies
860-685-3625

Director, Center for the Americas
860-685-3625

ikaramcheti@wesleyan.edu

BA University of California, Santa Barbara
MA University of California, Santa Barbara
PHD University of California, Santa Barbara

ENGL201H - 01
Ways of Reading: Call-Response

CHUM325 - 01
The Caribbean Epic

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesday 10:00-12 noon Location: 285 Court St. #110

Research Interests:
Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies Indira Karamcheti is an important new voice in the field of postcolonial literature. Her broad ranging interests in the geographics of marginality encompasses Caribbean and African-American literatures.

BA University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of California, Santa Cruz

AMST200 - 01
Colonialism & Its Consequences

AMST207 - 01
Methods: Critical Race Studies

ANTH111 - 01
Hawai`i: Myths and Realities

ANTH322 - 01
Nationalism, Gender, Sexuality

Personal Homepage:
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
I will be holding office hours on Tuesdays from 2-4pm, and by appointment, in my office at the Center for the HUMANITIES, room 101a (NOT at the Center for the Americas).

Research Interests:
See: &nbsp; http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/&nbsp;&nbsp;

Scholarly Keywords:
See: &nbsp; http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/&nbsp;&nbsp;

Associate Professor of Religion
171 Church Street
860-685-2289

Associate Professor, African American Studies
860-685-2289

Associate Professor, American Studies
860-685-2289

emcalister@wesleyan.edu

BA Vassar College
MA Yale University
MA Yale University
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University

RELI279 - 01
Christianity and Globalization

RELI151 - 01
Introduction to Religion

RELI151 - 02
Introduction to Religion

Personal Homepage:
http://emcalister.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Fall 2011: Tuesday 1:00-3:00 by appointment

Research Interests:
Associate Professor of Religion Elizabeth McAlister is a specialist in the study of African-based religions in the Americas, with a particular focus on Haiti. Her work addresses the broader issues of religion and the social construction of race. She is the author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (University of California Press, 2002).

Publications:
http://emcalister.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Kenan Professor of the Humanities
860-685-3603

Professor of English
Downey House 303
860-685-3603

Chair, English
Downey House 303
860-685-3603

Professor, American Studies
Downey House 303
860-685-3603

jpfister@wesleyan.edu

BA Columbia University
MA University of Sussex
MA University of London
PHD Yale University

AMST204 - 01
Junior Coll Cul Pwr & Amer St

ENGL175 - 01
Staging America

Office Hours:
2011-2012:Monday 1:30-3:30PM Location: 294 High St. (Downey House) Room #303

Research Interests:
Joel Pfister, Kenan Professor of the Humanities, has written THE PRODUCTION OF PERSONAL LIFE: CLASS, GENDER, AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IN HAWTHORNE'S FICTION (Stanford University Press, 1991); STAGING DEPTH: EUGENE O'NEILL AND THE POLITICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISCOURSE (University of North Carolina Press, 1995); (co-editor of) INVENTING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL: TOWARD A CULTURAL HISTORY OF EMOTIONAL LIFE IN AMERICA (Yale University Press, 1997); INDIVIDUALITY INCORPORATED: INDIANS AND THE MULTICULTURAL MODERN (Duke University Press, 2004), CRITIQUE FOR WHAT? CULTURAL STUDIES, AMERICAN STUDIES, LEFT STUDIES (Paradigm Publishers, 2006) and THE YALE INDIAN: THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ROE CLOUD (Duke University Press, 2009). He teaches the core theory course, "Cultural Power and American Studies," in the American Studies Program as well as English courses in American literature and culture from the colonial period to the present. Professor Pfister has received several fellowships, such as an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship and a Rockefeller fellowship, and has lectured in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe as well as the United States and Canada. Recently he served as chair of the American Studies program and is now chair of the English department. He was a Visiting Scholar in the John F. Kennedy Institute of North American Studies in the Graduate School in the Freie Universitat in Berlin for the summer term in 2011. In July, 2012, he will serve on the faculty of the West-China Faculty Enhancement Program in American Studies, co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the China Association for the Study of American Literature, and will teach Chinese college and university professors American literature as American Studies in Xi'an, China.

Professor of American Studies
Center for the Americas 216
860-685-2377

cpotter01@wesleyan.edu

BA Yale University
MA New York University
PHD New York University

Personal Homepage:
http://cpotter01.faculty.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
On Leave Spring 2012

Research Interests:
Claire Potter focuses her research on the social and cultural dynamics of state formation in the 20th century. She is the author of a major study of the FBI's war on midwestern bandits in the 1930s and currently working on a book which explores the impact of historical writing about race and citizenship on nationalist discourse in the United States. A third project in its early stages focuses on the federal campaigns against pornography initiated in the Carter, Reagan and first Bush administrations. She teaches the survey courses on U.S. Foreign Relations (which highlights interhemispheric relations), Politics and Culture of the Southern States, and post Stonewall queer political thought; as well as seminars on the New Deal, crime, and the Cold War. Claire blogs at http://tenured-radical.blogspot.com/

Scholarly Keywords:
United States political and cultural history; queer studies; gender

Academic Associations:
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
American Studies Association
AAUP

BA Harvard University
PHD Stanford University

CHUM329 - 01
Future Visions

Office Hours:
Spring 2012: Tuesday &amp; Thursday&nbsp;1:30-2:30PM Location: 285 Court #202

Scholarly Keywords:
Asian American literature; African American literature; literary and cultural theory and criticism

BA University of Chicago
MA Duke University
PHD Duke University

CHUM329 - 01
Future Visions

AMST201 - 01
Critical Queer Studies

ANTH228 - 01
Transnational Sexualities

Personal Homepage:
http://mdweiss.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012: On sabbatical and research leave

Research Interests:
Margot Weiss specializes in the ethnography of contemporary sexual cultures and politics. Her first book, Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke University Press), is based on ethnographic fieldwork with BDSM (kinky) communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The book explores the links between queer performance, racial and gender politics, late capitalism, and neoliberalism. She is also completing a small comparative project on the queer temporality of BDSM play with national trauma in the United States and Germany. Her current research, Visions of Sexual Justice, is a comparative ethnography of discourses of sexual rights, freedom, and justice among contemporary LGBT/queer activists in the United States and Canada. The research is supported by a Wenner-Gren Post-Ph.D. Research Grant, Osmundsen Initiative Award, and CLAGS Joan Heller-Diane Bernard Senior Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies. She has published essays on the politics of BDSM media visibility; on labor, leisure, and commodified sexuality; on the performative effects of BDSM interrogation scenes and the Abu Ghraib photographs; on neoliberalism, homonormativity, and new queer activisms; and on methods in queer anthropology. She is also putting together a special journal issue on the tensions between academia and activism.

Scholarly Keywords:
queer theory, feminist and cultural anthropology, transnational sexual cultures, performance, capitalism and community, United States

Publications:
http://works.bepress.com/mdweiss/