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Director: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ph.D.
Director, American Studies: John Carlos Rowe, Ph.D.
Director, African American Studies: Frederick Charles Moten, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies: Lon Kurashige, Ph.D.
Director, Chicano/Latino Studies: Curtis Marez, Ph.D.
Professors: Karen Halttunen, Ph.D.; Dorinne Kondo, Ph.D.; David Roman, Ph.D.; John Carlos Rowe, Ph.D.; George Sanchez, Ph.D.
Associate Professors: Alice Echols, Ph.D.; Judith Jackson Fossett, Ph.D.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Ph.D.; Thomas Gustafson, Ph.D.; Lon Kurashige, Ph.D.; Curtis Marez, Ph.D.; Teresa McKenna, Ph.D.; Fred Moten, Ph.D.; Viet Nguyen, Ph.D.; Laura Pulido, Ph.D.; Leland Saito, Ph.D.; Marita Sturken, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors: Macarena Gómez-Barris, Ph.D.; Sarah Gualtieri, Ph.D.; Camara Holloway, Ph.D.; Stanley Huey, Ph.D.; Jane Iwamura, Ph.D.; Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Ph.D.; Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Ph.D.; Roberto Lint-Sagarena, Ph.D.; Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D.; Janelle Wong, Ph.D; Cynthia Young, Ph.D.
The program in American Studies and Ethnicity integrates humanistic and social scientific perspectives and brings them to bear on an examination of the United States with a particular emphasis on comparative study of the peoples, cultures, history and social issues of the Western United States. The program offers four separate majors in American Studies and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Chicano/Latino Studies; and minors in American Studies and Ethnicity, American Popular Culture and Jewish American Studies. The graduate program offers a Ph.D. for students interested in broad interdisciplinary training at an advanced level to study the peoples, cultures and institutions of the United States in courses that integrate modes of inquiry from the humanities and the social sciences.
Drawing upon the cultural resources of a cosmopolitan city on the Pacific Rim and upon the strength and diversity of its professional schools as well as departments in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, these degree programs provide a richly interdisciplinary curriculum that is unique for its constitution of American Studies and Ethnic Studies as a comparative and interethnic program that takes as its focus a region -- Los Angeles, California and the West -- marked by challenging social and cultural changes.