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AMERICAN STUDIES FACULTY & STAFF |
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Program Administration
Delbanco, Andrew
Adams, Rachel
Darling, Angela
Board of Advisors
Alden, Jenna
Amdur, Robert
De Santis, Alicia
Mann, Tamara
Montas, Roosevelt
Paley, Valerie
Spiegel, Maura
Thomas, Robert
Interdepartmental
Committee of
Affiliated Faculty
Rachel Adams
Robert Amdur
Casey N. Blake
Alan Brinkley
Andrew Delbanco
Robert A. Ferguson
Eric Foner
Todd Gitlin
Farah Griffin
Alice Kessler-Harris
Roosevelt Montas
Sarah Phillips
Ross Posnock
Wayne Proudfoot
Rosalind Rosenberg
Maura Spiegel
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Program Administration
Professor Andrew Delbanco,
winner of the 2006 Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia
Graduates, is the author of Melville: His World and Work
(2005), which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist
for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in biography. The Death
of Satan (1995), Required Reading: Why Our American Classics
Matter Now (1997), and The Real American Dream (1999)
were named notable books by the editors of The New York Times
Book Review. The Puritan Ordeal (1989) won the Lionel
Trilling Award. Among his edited books are Writing New England
(2001), The Portable Abraham Lincoln (1992), volume two
of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (with Teresa Toulouse),
and, with Alan Heimert, The Puritans in America (1985).
Andrew Delbanco's essays appear regularly in The New York Review
of Books, The New Republic, Raritan, and other journals, on
topics ranging from American literary and religious history
to contemporary issues in higher education. In 2001, he was
elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and named by Time Magazine as "America's Best Social Critic."
In 2003, he was named New York State Scholar of the Year by
the New York Council for the Humanities.
Professor Delbanco has received fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the
National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a member of the
inaugural class of fellows at the New York Public Library Center
for Scholars and Writers. He is a trustee of the National Humanities
Center and the Library of America, and has served as Vice President
of PEN American Center. Since 1995 he has held the Julian Clarence
Levi Professor Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University.
His new book, Melville: His World and Work has just been
published in the United States (September, 2005) by Alfred A.
Knopf. It will appear in Britain under the Picador imprint,
and in German translation, to be published in 2007 by Hanser
Verlag.
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B.A, University of California,
Berkeley (1990); M.A., University of Michigan (1992); Ph.D.,
University of California, Santa Barbara (1997). Professor Adams
specializes in 19th- and 20th-century literatures of the United
States and the Americas, media studies, theories of race, gender,
and sexuality, and disability studies. She is currently writing
a book on cultures of the North American continent, which includes
materials from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Her first book,
Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination,
was published by the University of Chicago Press in Fall 2001.
She is also co-editor (with David Savran) of The Masculinity
Studies Reader, which was published by Blackwell Press in
2001. She is editor of a critical edition of Kate Chopin's The
Awakening (Fine Publications, 2002). Recent articles have appeared
in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History,
American Quarterly, Minnesota Review, Camera Obscura, GLQ, and
Signs. For three years she served as Managing Editor of Camera
Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies. In 2004-2005
she was a Global Fellow at UCLA's International Institute.
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ROBERT AMDUR
Chair, American Studies Board of Advisors |
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rla2@columbia.edu
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719 International Affairs
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By appointment |
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ANGELA
DARLING
Assistant
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amd44@columbia.edu
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Board of Advisors |
The Board of Advisors for American Studies includes
Professors Delbanco and Adams as well as the following personnel:
Jenna Alden is a Ph.D. candidate in US History. She graduated from
Wesleyan University in 2000, having majored in American Studies and
written a senior thesis about the design and marketing of the minivan.
After working for a few years as curatorial assistant at the Museum of
Television and Radio in New York, she started Columbia's Ph.D. program in
(20th-century) American History in September 2004. Her interests
include the history of psychology, 20th-century religious movements, and corporate culture. She is working on a history of postwar sensitivity training.
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Alicia DeSantis is a Ph.D. candidate in English and American Literature at Columbia. She graduated from Harvard in 2000 and then moved to New York, where she worked as a graphic designer. She writes about literature, but also about photography, illustration and journalism, particularly in the 19th century.
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B.A., Duke University (2001); M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School (2005). Tamara Mann is a Ph.D. candidate in American History. Her research interests include philanthropic history, legal history, and American intellectual and cultural history. Tamara recently received the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities for her dedication to teaching and mentorship.
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A.B., Columbia, (1995), M.A., Columbia
(1996), Ph.D., Columbia (2004). Roosevelt Montas specializes
in Antebellum American literature and culture, with a specific
interest in citizenship and American national identity. He has
also taught both Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization
in the Columbia College Core Curriculum, where he is a Lecturer.
His dissertation, "Rethinking America: Abolitionism and
the Antebellum Transformation of the Discourse of National Identity,"
won the 2004 Bancroft Award. He is currently writing a book
on the same subject.
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Valerie Paley is a Ph.D. candidate in US History who is currently
working on a dissertation on cultural philanthropy in New York City.
Her interests include urban and NYC history, US intellectual history,
and oral history. From 2002 until 2008, she was the editor of the
New-York Journal of American History, published by the New-York
Historical Society. Ms. Paley holds an MA in American Studies from
Columbia, and an AB in English and Psychology from Vassar. A native
New Yorker, she was a professional ballet and modern dancer as well as
a graphic designer before pursuing advanced studies.
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Maura Spiegel teaches the Introduction
to American Studies, and various courses in contemporary American
Fiction, American literature of the Progressive Era and of the
Nineteenth Century. She also teaches and writes about American
film. She is the Co-Editor of the journal Literature and
Medicine, and she is involved with the Narrative Medicine
Program at Columbia's School of Physicians and Surgeons. She
has special interests in American photography, stand-up comedy,
the city in literature and film and the dynamics between history
and memory.
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Robert Thomas is a fourth-year,
history Ph.D. student. His interests include 20th century US
intellectual history, historiography and science. Before returning
to school, Mr. Thomas worked in various editorial jobs for major
US news outlets, including Newsweek and WNET13. He is a founder
of Candide Media (http://www.candidemedia.com)
and served as its president from 1997 to 2001. Mr. Thomas holds
a master's in international affairs from Columbia, a BA in history
and German from UC Davis, and is a US Navy veteran. He is a
native of Pennsylvania.
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Interdepartmental Committee of Affiliated Faculty |
| Rachel Adams (English) |
| Robert Amdur
(Political Science) |
| Casey N. Blake (History) |
| Alan Brinkley
(History) |
| Andrew Delbanco
(English) |
| Robert A. Ferguson (Law) |
| Eric Foner
(History) |
| Todd Gitlin (Journalism
and Sociology) |
| Farah Griffin (English
and African-American Studies) |
| Alice Kessler-Harris (History
and Women's Studies) |
| Roosevelt Montas (Core
Curriculum and English) |
| Sarah Phillips
(History) |
| Ross Posnock (English
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| Wayne Proudfoot (Religion) |
| Rosalind Rosenberg (History) |
| Maura Spiegel
(English) |
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