Dr Toby Aho is a Senior Professorial Lecturer and the Director of American Studies and the Disability, Health, and Bodies (DHB) Certificate. Dr Aho teaches the core classes of the DHB Certificate as w…
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on interpersonal and state violence against disabled people at the intersections of race, class, gender…
K. Tyler Christensen holds a PhD in American Literature & Culture from the English Department at The George Washington Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ. The expanse of his doctoral work is concerned with storytelling that …
Mali Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, 20th and 21st century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and jus…
Mary Ellen Curtin is a historian of modern African American and women's social and political history. Her first book BLACK PRISONERS AND THEIR WORLD, ALABAMA, 1865-1900 (Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ Press of Virginia, …
As a public anthropologist working in the District of Columbia, I research creative economic development, placemaking, public policy, and inequality.
Christina Juhász-Wood is a Professorial Lecturer in the American Studies Program where she teaches courses on American culture and history, poverty, and critical refugee studies. Her work focuses on s…
Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian American literature, food studies, transnational Sout…
Suzanne C. Persard (PhD, Emory Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ) is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ, Facult…
Dr. Elizabeth Rule (enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation) is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ in Washington, DC. Rule’s research on issue…
Theresa Runstedtler is a scholar of African American history whose research examines Black popular culture, with a particular focus on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. Her crit…
Alison Thomas has taught at AU since 2005, and has offered courses in the Department of Literature and in the American Studies Program. Her research focuses on information literacy and the teaching of…
David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Director of the Latina/o/x Studies Program. He teaches courses on comparative Latina/o/x literature and cultur…
Katharina Vester is Associate Professor of History & American Studies at American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ in Washington, D.C. She specializes in cultural theory, transnational studies, and the dynamics of power in…
Dr. Quynh Vo is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ. Her…
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at American Çà¹ÏÊÓƵ. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…