Faculty
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Tamara Bhalla Associate Professor and Chair Ph.D. (English Language and Literature), University of Michigan Bio » |
Office: Fine Arts 545-D 410-455-3254 tbhalla@umbc.edu |
Teaching Areas: Asian American literary and cultural studies; South Asian American cultural studies; readership and social practices of reading; post-1965 multiethnic literatures Research Interests: South Asian American cultural studies; Reader and reception studies; book clubs and social forms of reading |
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Iris Blake Assistant Teaching Professor Ph.D. (Ethnic Studies), University of California, Riverside Bio » |
Office: Fine Arts 541 iblake3@umbc.edu |
Teaching Areas: critical ethnic studies, cultural studies, memory studies, gender & sexuality studies Research Interests: sound studies, critical ethnic studies, queer and feminist disability studies, performance studies, cultural production |
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Michael Casiano Assistant Professor Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Bio » |
Office: Fine Arts 546 410-455-6570 mc12@umbc.edu |
Teaching Areas: twentieth-century urban history, Baltimore history, cultural studies, African-American history, public humanities, engaged scholarship Research Interests: carceral studies, urban history, black studies, gender & sexuality studies, critical race & ethnic studies |
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Sarah Fouts Associate Professor Ph.D. (Latin American Studies), Tulane University Bio » |
Office: Fine Arts 545-C 410-455-1451 sfouts@umbc.edu |
Teaching Areas: labor, migration, transnationalism, food studies, ethnography Research Interests: food studies, labor studies, New Orleans, Honduras, ethnography, disasters, quilting, and community engagement |
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Nicole King Professor Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Bio » |
Office: Fine Arts 542 410-455-1457 nking@umbc.edu |
Teaching Areas: cultural studies, public history, urban studies (Baltimore) Research Interests: place and identity, economic development, travel and tourism, urban studies (especially Baltimore) |
Adjunct Faculty
| Andrew DeVos Instructor |
Contact: adevos1@umbc.edu |
| Michael Hummel Instructor |
Contact: hummel1@umbc.edu |
| Christina Sessoms Instructor |
Contact: csessom1@umbc.edu |
| Zareen Taj Instructor |
Contact: ztaj@umbc.edu |
Emeritus and Retired Faculty
| Warren Belasco Professor Emeritus Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan Bio » |
Teaching Areas: popular and material culture, cultural history, environmental studies Research Interests: food, future studies, cultural history |
| Kathy Scales Bryan Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Bio » |
Teaching Areas: education and cultural transmission, childhood and family, cultural and intellectual history Research Interests: education history and policy, curriculum transformation, gender equity in education, cultural conflict and transformation, literature and society |
| Patrice McDermott Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park |
Teaching Areas: 20th – 21st century cultural history, multicultural and cross-cultural studies, gender studies, identity theory, culture theory Research Interests: discourse analysis, mass media and publishing, sociology of knowledge, contemporary social movements |
Staff
| Morgan Dowty Program Management Specialist |
Office: Fine Arts 545-A 410-455-2106 morgando@umbc.edu |