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 history, jazz and other American musics and 20th-century U.S. cultural, social and political history.
  
• Emily Lutenski, Ph.D.
  

  20th-century American literature (comparative ethnic literatures and cultures), gender and feminist studies, modernism and issues of space and place.

• 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