American Studies Faculty Listings
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Core Faculty
John H. Chatfield,
Associate Professor of History
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988)Office: Seabury 12A
Office Phone: (860) 297-2374
E-mail: john.chatfield@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
Colonial America, Revolutionary Era, The Early Republic, Antebellum AmericaCurrent Research:
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Jan K. Cohn, G. Keith Funston Professor of American Literature and American Studies
(Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1964)Office: 115 Vernon Street, Room 102
Office Phone: (860) 297-2309
E-mail: jan.cohn@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
Popular culture, 19th and 20th-century American literature
Current Research:
Working on a study of the orphan in American Literature and popular culture.Select Publications:
The Covers of the "Saturday Evening Post" : Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Magazine
Luis Figueroa, Assistant Professor of History
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1991)Office: Seabury 12C
Office Phone: (860) 297-5285
E-mail: luis.figueroa@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: http://frontpage.trincoll.edu/lfigueroProfessional Interests:
Impact of Americanization on Puerto Rican popular culture in the early 20th-century, Puerto Rican history, Historical memory, and National identity.Current Research:
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Adrienne Fulco, Associate Professor of Legal and Policy Studies
(Ph.D., City University of New York, 1981)Office: Seabury 404
Office Phone: (860) 297-2435
E-mail: adrienne.fulco@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
American political thought, Constitutional law, Feminist legal theory
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Cheryl L. Greenberg, Associate Professor of History and Program Director
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 1988)Office: Seabury 12B
Office Phone: (860) 297-2371
E-mail: cheryl.greenberg@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
African-American history, Race and ethnicity, 20th century social historyCurrent Research:
She is working on a book about Black-Jewish relations in the 20th century.Select Publications:
"Or Does it Explode?" Black Harlem in the Great Depression, 1991
and the editor of a A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC, 1998
Joan D. Hedrick, Charles A. Dana Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies
(Ph.D., Brown University, 1974)Office: Seabury 12f
Office Phone: (860) 297-2131
E-mail: joan.hedrick@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
American literary history from 1860-1900, particularly the effect on women writers of the rise of the critical establishment, The establishment of the literary cannon, and The definition of American realism.Current Research:
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Harriet Bleecher Stowe --- A Life (Recieved a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for her book, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named to The New York Times list of Notable Books of the Year.)
Eugene Leach, Professor of History and American Studies
(Ph.D., Yale University, 1977)Office: Seabury 46A
Office Phone: (860) 297-2375
E-mail: eugene.leach@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
Topics in the cultural and intellectual history of the 19th century, Working-classs history, Multiculturalism in American social thought.Current Research:
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Margo Perkins, Assistant Professsor of English and American Studies
(Ph.D., Cornell University, 1995)Office: 115 Vernon Street, Room 307
Office Phone: (860) 297-2451
E-mail: margo.perkins@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
African-American literature and culture, 20th-century autobiography, 1960's activist/countercultural movements; Race, class, and gender issuesCurrent Research:
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Barbara Sicherman, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values
(Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967)Office: Seabury 10B
Office Phone: (860) 297-2373
E-mail: barbara.sicherman@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
Institutions and Values; Womens's history, Family, Ethnicity, and Cultural historyCurrent Research:
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Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
Vogel, Todd, Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies
and English
(Ph.D., University of Texas, 1999)Office: McCook 200
Office Phone: (860) 297-4274
E-mail: todd.vogel@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
African American literature, American ethnic literature, critical race studies (including whiteness studies), class, and labor.Current Research:
Writing White: Race and ideology in the 19th century, a manuscript about race, ideology, and cultural capital in the 19th century.Working Race: Labor, class, and ethnicity in American literature - a manuscript about race, ethnicity, and class in American literature.
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The Black Press: Literary and Historical Essays (Rutgers University Press, November 2001).
Jerry G. Watts, Associate Professor of American Studies
(Ph.D., Yale University, 1985)Office: Seabury 406
Office Phone: (860) 297-2494
E-mail: jerry.watts@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
African-American studies, Political ScienceCurrent Research:
Writing about charisma and American political culture.Select Publications:
"Heroism and the Black Intellectual: Ralph Ellison, Politics, and Afro-American" which is volume one of Politics and the Afro-American Intellectual; Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual (2001).
Johnny Williams, Assistant Professor of Sociology
(Ph.D., Brandies Univeristy, 1995)Office: LSC 230
Office Phone: (860) 297-2370
E-mail: johnny.williams@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
Religion, Politics, Social movements, Cultural StudiesCurrent Research:
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Affiliated Faculty
Kathleen Curran, Associate Professor of Fine Arts
(Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1986)Office: Hallden
Office Phone: (860) 297-2504
E-mail: kathleen.curran@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
19th-century architecture, American decorative arts.Current Research:
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Recently completed a book on Romanesque Revival in Germany, England, and the United States.
Susan D. Pennybacker, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Hartford Studies Project
(Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1985)Office: Seabury 34E
Office Phone: (860) 297-2389
E-mail: susan.pennybacker@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
A modern british specialist who is working on aspects of racial politics in the Atlantic world of the 1930's. Other fields of interest include: Metropolitan urban history, 1800-present, especially London and New York, Anglo-American history, including the history of immigration and of documentary photography, and the recent history of Hartford.Current Research:
Activist in local and regional public history and public culture.Select Publications:
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Katharine G. Power, Associate Professor of Theater and Dance
(M.F.A., Smith College, 1978)Office: AAC 312
Office Phone: (860) 297-2384
E-mail: katharine.power@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
20th-century American playwrights and choreographers, revisioning of the coreogrpahies of Martha Graham.Current Research:
Focused on a select group of American women artists (Mary McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, Martha Graham, Lee Krasner, Lorraine Hansberry, and Sylvia Plath) examined within the context of Cold War culture.Select Publications:
"Raging Mothers: Maternal Subjectivity and Desire in the Dance Theater of Martha Graham" (appeared in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism).
Gail H. Woldu, Assistant Professor of Music
(Ph.D., Yale University, 1983)Office: AAC 111
Office Phone: (860) 297-2372
E-mail: gail.woldu@mail.trincoll.edu
Homepage: Not availableProfessional Interests:
The music of Black-Americans, the music of Black-American women, rap music, hip hop culture.Current Research:
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She has written several articles on rap in the classroom that explore the pedagogical issues unique to teaching rap and other forms of popular black music.