Faculty | Department of American Studies

Name	Title	Research Interests	Email
Alexander, Kelly	Assistant Professor	Critical Food Studies Ethnographic Methods Documentary Studies Material Culture Southern Foodways	kelly.alexander@unc.edu
Berlinger, Gabrielle	Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies	Material Culture Ritual Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Ethnography Public Folklore Museum Anthropology	gberling@unc.edu
Cobb, Daniel	Professor and Associate Chair of American Studies	American Indian and Indigenous Studies American Indian History Politics and Activism Ethnohistorical Methods Biography and Memory Global Indigenous Rights	dcobb@unc.edu
Douglas, Kita	Teaching Assistant Professor	Asian American Literature Asian American Visual Culture Gender & Sexuality Studies Archives and Material Culture	kitakd@email.unc.edu
Engelhardt, Elizabeth	Distinguished Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Fine Arts and Humanities	Southern Cultures Food Appalachia Feminism Literature Region and Place	e.engelhardt@unc.edu
Frey, Benjamin E.	Assistant Professor	Sociolinguistics language shift Cherokee language	benfrey@live.unc.edu
Hinson, Glenn	Associate Professor	Public Folklore Ethnography African American Expressive Culture American South	ghinson@unc.edu
Holland, Sharon	Distinguished Professor	Critical Race Theory Feminist Theory Queer Theory Sexuality Studies Animal Studies	pasharon@email.unc.edu
Katz, Emily Alice	Teaching Assistant Professor	Jewish American literature Jewish American history and culture Literary approaches to nonfiction writing	katzem@unc.edu
Kelley, Blair	Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of the American South	African American Experience Southern Black Cultures Race Theory History of Black Activism	blairlm@unc.edu
Kotch, Seth	Associate Professor and Director, Southern Oral History Program	Modern South Oral History Criminal and Social justice	sethkotch@unc.edu
Marr, Timothy	Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies	Nineteenth-Century American Literary and Cultural History Transnational American Studies Religion in American culture Islam in/and America Herman Melville	marr@unc.edu
Randolph, Antonia	Jonathan M. Hess Term Professor, Assistant Professor	Black Masculinity Popular Culture (Hip-Hop) Music Race Theory Education Sexuality	antonia.randolph@unc.edu
Richotte, Jr., Keith	Associate Professor	American Indian Law and Policy Legal History Constitutionalism	richotte@email.unc.edu
Robinson, Michelle	Associate Professor	US Religious History Film Studies Comedy Detective Fiction	mmrobins@email.unc.edu
Sawin, Patricia	Chair of American Studies Associate Professor	Narrative Discourse Festival Culture of Adoption	sawin@unc.edu
Willis, Rachel	Professor	Global American Studies Transportation Planning Labor Economics Service-learning, Experiential and Higher Education	Rachel.Willis@unc.edu