The distinguished faculty in Saint Louis University’s American Studies Department are trained specifically in our discipline. Most have earned a Ph.D. in American studies and all have worked extensively in the field as scholars, teachers, curators or creative artists.
- Heidi Ardizzone, Ph.D.
Racial identity and constructions of race and ethnicities, African American history and culture, activism and protest movements, women's and gender history. - Flannery Burke, Ph.D.
American regional cultures, environmental humanities, borderlands, and the intersection of art, literature, and public policy.
- Benjamin Looker, Ph.D.Urban studies and urban representational politics, jazz and other American musics, cultural studies, the performing arts in social movements, politics of culture in the postwar U.S.
- Emily Lutenski, Ph.D.
Critical ethnic studies, gender studies, 20th-century U.S. literatures and cultures.
- Kate Moran, Ph.D.Late 19th- and early 20th-century American history and religion, transnationalism.
Emeriti Faculty
- Lawrence Barmann, Ph.D.
- Elizabeth Kolmer, Ph.D.
- Matthew Mancini, Ph.D.
Staff
- Terri Foster, administrative secretary