American Studies Faculty and Staff

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.
  
• 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.
  

  Comparative ethnic studies, gender studies, 20^th century American literatures, place and region.

• 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