Faculty

	Warren Belasco Professor Emeritus Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 544 410-455-1425 belasco@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: popular and material culture, cultural history, environmental studies Research Interests: food, future studies, cultural history
	Tamara Bhalla Associate Professor Ph.D. (English Language and Literature), University of Michigan Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 545D 410-455-3254 tbhalla@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: Asian American literary and cultural studies, post-1965 narratives of immigration to the United States, multiethnic literatures Research Interests: South Asian American and diasporic literature and culture, Asian American literature and culture, reading communities and book clubs, and literary reception
	Kathy Scales Bryan Senior Lecturer Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 541 410-455-1351 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
	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
	Sarah Fouts Assistant 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: urban studies, food studies, New Orleans, labor, social justice, Honduras-U.S., accompaniment methodology, transnationalism
	Nicole King Associate Professor and Chair Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 545B 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)
	Patrice McDermott Associate Professor Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park Current Position: Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs	Office: Administration 1001 410-455-3150 mcdermot@umbc.edu	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
	Ashley Minner Professor of the Practice Ph.D. [ABD] (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park; MFA (Community Arts), Maryland Institute College of Art Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 542 acminner@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: folklore, cultural studies, museum scholarship and material culture, American Indian studies, community art, public humanities Research Interests: folklore, cultural studies, community studies, place and identity, thing theory, the everyday
	W. Edward Orser Professor Emeritus Ph.D. (American Studies), University of New Mexico Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 544 410-455-2107 orser@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: community and urban studies, local history and Baltimore area, 20th – 21st century American society and culture, environmental studies Research Interests: community studies, racial change, environment

Staff

	Shenita Denson Graduate Assistant Ph.D. Student (Language, Literacy, and Culture), University of Maryland Baltimore County Bio »	Office: Fine Arts 561 410-455-2262 eminnigh@umbc.edu	Teaching Areas: public speaking, interpersonal communication, interactional dialogues, multicultural competency, performance, first-year writing Research Interests: empowering self-narratives, spaces, resiliency, methods of coping, reframed identities, storytelling
	Erin Minnigh Administrative Assistant II	Office: Fine Arts 545A 410-455-2106 eminnigh@umbc.edu