Faculty and Staff

Faculty

	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
	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
	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
	Andy DeVos Adjunct Faculty  Ph.D. (Language, Literacy & Culture), UMBC Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 562 adevos1@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: cultural history, media studies, sociology and history of race, urban studies, U.S. popular culture Research Interests: sociology of race, history of Baltimore, popular music and film, carceral studies, American religious nationalism and extremism, and media subcultures
	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
	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)

Emeritus and Retired Faculty

	Warren Belasco Professor Emeritus Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan Bio »	Office: belasco@umbc.edu	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 »	Office: kbryan@umbc.edu	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