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Jay DiEdwards Senior Administrative Assistant CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Program Directors
- African American & African Diaspora Studies:
Sybil Williams - American Studies:
Mary Ellen Curtin - Arab World Studies:
Irene Calis - Asia, Pacific, & DiasporaÌýStudies:
Anita Mannur - Latina/o/x Studies:
David Vázquez - Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies:
Amy Barber
All CRGC Faculty
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Tanja Aho Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Dr Tanja Aho is a Senior Professorial Lecturer and the Director of American Studies and the Disability, Health, and Bodies (DHB) Certificate. Dr Aho teaches the core classes of the DHB Certificate as …
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Amy Barber Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Lydia X. Z. Brown Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on interpersonal and state violence against disabled people at the intersections of race, class, gender…
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Irene Calis Director, Arab World Studies CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Irene Calis is a decolonial scholar, educator, and organizer. Her research focuses on emancipatory politics from the perspective of those living their struggle. Through a comparative frame of analysis…
Tyler Christensen Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
K. Tyler Christensen holds a PhD in American Literature & Culture from the English Department at The George Washington University. The expanse of his doctoral work is concerned with storytelling that …
Donald Collins Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Donald Earl Collins is a freelance writer and historian who has written on the topics of multiculturalism, education reform, race, and the history of African American and American identity for more th…
Mali Collins Assistant Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Mali Collins’ research areas include Black motherhood studies, Black archival studies, 20th and 21st century literature and art, medical humanities, digital technology, and reproductive health and jus…
Robert Connelly Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Bob Connelly is a senior adjunct professorial lecturer of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Bob received his M.F.A. in Film and Electronic Media at American University, and began teaching LGBTQ f…
Mary Ellen Curtin Associate Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Mary Ellen Curtin is a historian of modern African American and women's social and political history. Her first book BLACK PRISONERS AND THEIR WORLD, ALABAMA, 1865-1900 (University Press of Virginia, …
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Morad Elsana Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Dr. Elsana is an adjunct professor at the American University. Prior, he served as a professor of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Dr. Elsa…
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Laura Gibson Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Anthony Gualtieri Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
As a public anthropologist working in the District of Columbia, I research creative economic development, placemaking, public policy, and inequality.
Mustafa Gurbuz Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Mustafa Gurbuz is a political sociologist whose research focuses on race/ethnic relations and social movements. His publications appeared in Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Forum, Middle East Criti…
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Nabil HageAli Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
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Christina Juhasz-Wood Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Christina Juhász-Wood is a Professorial Lecturer in the American Studies Program where she teaches courses on American culture and history, poverty, and critical refugee studies. Her work focuses on s…
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Judd King Adjunct Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Judd King currently teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and is affiliated with the Arab World Studies Program. His primary research interests are modern Islamic political movements, g…
Gulsum Kucuksari Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
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Keith Leonard Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Keith D Leonard is the author of Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. His publications, presentations, and courses have revolved around his study of…
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Anita Mannur Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian American literature, food studies, transnational Sout…
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Alexandria Nunn Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
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Martyn Oliver Faculty Chair, AU Core CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Martyn was born and raised in southern Minnesota. In addition to Washington State and Boston, his studies also took him to Scotland, Lebanon, Austria, and Morocco. His work explores the construction o…
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Suzanne Persard Assistant Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Suzanne C. Persard (PhD, Emory University) is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at American University, Facult…
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Christina Riley Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Christina Riley’s research focuses on the cultural dynamics of group collectivity and their ensuing on/offline sociopolitical relays. Christina is particularly invested in digital group coherence and …
Sybil Roberts Director of African American and African Diaspora Studies CAS | Performing Arts
Sybil R. Williams has spent the past twelve years cultivating her craft as a playwright and dramaturg. Her work has been professionally produced by Chicago’s ETA Creative Arts Theatre; New York’s Nati…
Elizabeth Rule Assistant Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Dr. Elizabeth Rule (enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation) is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University in Washington, DC. Rule’s research on issue…
Theresa Runstedtler Professor CAS | History
Theresa Runstedtler is a scholar of African American history whose research examines Black popular culture, with a particular focus on the intersection of race, masculinity, labor, and sport. Her crit…
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Vibhanshu Shekhar Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Elke Stockreiter Associate Professor CAS | History
Elke Stockreiter is a historian of modern Africa. Her research and teaching interests include the histories of colonialism, gender, race, and slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Trained as a…
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Aristotle Theresa Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Alison Thomas Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature
Alison Thomas has taught at AU since 2005, and has offered courses in the Department of Literature and in the American Studies Program. Her research focuses on information literacy and the teaching of…
Sarah Trembath Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature
Sarah Trembath is an editor, writer, and educator. She has been teaching since 1998 and joined the AU faculty in 2014. Her written work has appeared in Radical Teacher, the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Q…
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David Vazquez Associate Professor Literature and CRGC, Program Director of Latinx Studies CAS | Critical RGC Studies
David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and Director of the Latina/o/x Studies Program. He teaches courses on comparative Latina/o/x literature and cultur…
Katharina Vester Associate Professor CAS | History
Katharina Vester is Associate Professor of History & American Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in cultural theory, transnational studies, and the dynamics of power in…
Quynh Vo Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Dr. Quynh Vo is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. Her…
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Kathryn Weathersby Adjunct Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies
Lily Wong Associate Professor CAS | Literature
Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…
Onaje Woodbine Associate Professor CAS | Philosophy/Religion
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s research explores the varieties of black religious experience, especially as they are lived on the margins of power and outside the bounds of established institutional authority…