Nina Antonetti is Assistant Professor in Landscape Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in landscape and architectural history from the Victorian Study Centre, University of London, and has held research positions in the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She was the first Mellon Fellow in Landscape Studies and is now the first tenure-track faculty hire in Smith's pioneering landscape studies program. Her courses include Introduction to Landscape Studies; Socialized Landscapes: Private Squalor and Public Affluence; Suburbia: the Middle Landscape; and Rethinking Landscape. Currently, she is finishing writing a book about socialized landscapes-a phrase she defines as those public landscapes where social, political, and cultural boundaries dissolve to foster diversity on common ground, such as Central Park and the Appalachian Trail.

nantonet@email.smith.edu

Justin D. Cammy is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies. He is also a member of the Program in Comparative Literature and the Program in Middle East Studies, in addition to his service in American Studies. He received a Ph.D. (2003) from Harvard University , and a B.A. (1993) from McGill University . He is also a Canadian, which makes his presence on American Studies both ironic and kindly subversive.

Cammy teaches a variety of courses on modern Jewish literature and culture at Smith. Students in American Studies are particularly welcome in American Jewish Literature (JUD 258/ENG 230), next offered in spring 2009. Several of his other literature classes (JUD 260, Yiddish Literature and CLT 218, Holocaust Literature) also include substantial focus on American writers. Motivated students are always welcome to contact him to investigate the possibility of pursuing special studies course on topics relating to the American Jewish experience. Cammy is a co-editor of Beyond the Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Jewish Literature and Culture (2008) and an associate editor of Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History . In 2006 he was awarded the Sherrerd Prize for Distinguished Teaching at Smith.

jcammy@email.smith.edu

Ginetta Candelario is Associate Professor in Sociology and Latin American and Latina/o Studies and a member of the Women's Studies Program Committee at Smith College . Her research interests are in Dominican identity displays and in the history of Dominican feminist activism. Her teaching has been in the areas of race and ethnicity in the Americas , Latina/o communities in the U. S. , and Latin American and Latina feminisms. She was pleased to receive the 2005 Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.  

Her first book, Black Behind the Ears: Blackness in Dominican Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She also edited a volume on gender studies in the Dominican Republic entitled Miradas Desencadenantes : Los Estudios de Genero en la Republica Dominicana published in 2005 by the Instituto de Tecnologia (INTEC) in Santo Domingo . Her most recent project is on Dominican feminist thought and activism, 1880-1960. Her recent publications include Black Behind the Ears and Up front Too?: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic, Public Historian: Special Issue on Latinos in the Museum , Fall 2001 and winner of the 2002 G. Wesley Johnson Best Article Prize from the National Council of Public Historians; Hair-Race-ing: The Dominican Beauty Shop, the Body and the Self, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Vol. 1, No. 1. 

Ginetta serves on the editorial boards of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism ; Ethnic Studies; and of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnicities. In addition, she is the Chair of the Program Track in Latino Studies for the Latin American Studies Association's 2007 meeting, the Co-Chair for the Gender Section of LASA 2007, and was the Chair for the Program Track in Culture for the American Sociological Association's 2006 meeting.

gcandela@email.smith.edu

Floyd Cheung is Associate Professor of English and of American Studies. He is also a member of the Five College Asian/Pacific/American Studies Certificate Program, for which he served as the Founding Chair from 1999 to 2002. Born in Hong Kong, he grew up in Las Vegas , took his B.A. at Whittier College , and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Tulane University . At Smith, he teaches courses in American literature, American studies, and Asian American literature and culture. In each of these fields, Mr. Cheung has published articles in academic journals. Interested in the recovery of early Asian American texts, Mr. Cheung has edited H. T. Tsiang's novel And China Has Hands (Ironweed Press, 2003) and co-edited Kathleen Tamagawa's memoir Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear (Rutgers UP, 2008). With Keith Lawrence, he co-edited and contributed a chapter to Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature (Temple University Press, 2005). An interview with Mr. Cheung appears in the book 14 Conversations with Scholars of American Popular Culture (Press Americana, 2006). Besides teaching and writing, Mr. Cheung enjoys spending time with his family, playing drums, and rock climbing.

fcheung@email.smith.edu

Rosetta Marantz Cohen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education and Child Study.  She holds a BA in English from Yale University, a M.F.A. in Poetry from Columbia University and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia.  Ms. Cohen began her career as a high school English teacher in New York City.  Her areas of expertise in Education include the history and philosophy of American education, school reform and restructuring, secondary teaching, and the history of the teaching profession.  She also directs the Masters of Arts in Teaching Program at Smith.  Ms. Cohen's books include A Lifetime of Teaching (Teachers College Press, 1991), Understanding How School Change Really Happens (Corwin, 1996), The Work of Teachers in America: A Social History Through Stories (Erlbaum, 1998), and Teacher-Centered Schools: Reimagining Educational Reform in the 21st Century (Scarecrow, 2004).  She is also the author of a poetry chapbook entitled Domestic Scenes.

rcohen@email.smith.edu

Jim Hicks is director of the American Studies Diploma Program and a lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts , Amherst . He is also a U.S. Project Director of the Educational Partnership Program between Smith College and the University of Sarajevo . At Smith, he teaches the annual fall seminar for students in the American Studies Diploma Program. At UMass, he teaches a course on literary theory, another on war stories , and a course on transnational readings of United States culture. In 1992, he received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania . In 1999-2000, he was a Fulbright professor in the English Department at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina . In 2005, Hicks participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on "rethinking America in Global Perspective" at the Library of Congress. He has published work in The Centennial Review, The Minnesota Review, Postmodern Culture, and Twentieth-Century Literature , as well as scholarly journals in Italy , Estonia and Turkey . His current research project is entitled "Lessons from Sarajevo : The Use and Abuse of Compassion in Telling the Story of War."

jhicks@email.smith.edu

Daniel Horowitz majored in American Studies as an undergraduate at Yale and then went on to earn his Ph.D. in History at Harvard because his teachers at Yale told him there were no jobs in American Studies. Before coming to Smith in 1989, he taught at Harvard in History, Wellesley College in History, Skidmore College in American Studies, Carleton College in American Studies, the University of Michigan in History and American Studies, and Scripps College in History and American Studies. At Scripps he was the Nathaniel Wright Stephenson Professor of History and Biography. As a scholar he has focused on how American writers have responded to affluence and consumer culture since the 1830s. So far, this interest has led him to publish The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940 (1985), Vance Packard and American Social Criticism (1994), Betty Friedan and The Making of The Feminine Mystique : The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (1998), The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004); Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970: The "Crisis of Confidence" Speech of July 15, 1979, ed. and intro. ( Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin 's Press, 2004). He has won fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His work on Betty Friedan, Smith class of 1942, earned him the Constance Rourke Prize from the American Studies Association and the annual book prize from the North East Popular Culture Association. Anxieties of Affluence won the Eugene M. Kayden award for the best book in the humanities published in 2004. At Smith, he was the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies (1997-2000) was director of the American Studies Program until 2006. At Smith he has taught American Studies 100: Ideas in American Studies; American Studies 201: Introduction to American Studies; American Studies 202: Methods in American Studies, American Studies 341, The U.S. as a Consumer Society, and American Studies 555 and 556, the core courses in the graduate American Studies Diploma Program. A specialist in recent American history, he has also taught History 273: Contemporary America and History 383: U.S. women's history- The Sophia Smith Collection.

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz enjoys working in a number of fields that connect her interest in American history with women's studies, landscape studies, architecture, education, biography, sexual representation, law, and medicine. She began learning about this at Wellesley where she got her B.A. in 1963 and Harvard, where she got her American Studies Ph.D. in 1969. She continued learning at MIT, Union College , Scripps College , and the University of Southern California , where she taught before coming to Smith. She is the author of the following books: Culture and the City:Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917; Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s; Campus Life:Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present; The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas; and Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2003). She was co-editor of  Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley and editor of Landscape in Sight: J.B. Jackson's America and Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America . The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York , co-authored with Patricia Cline Cohen and Timothy Gilfoyle is currently in press. Her current project is A Case of the Nerves , a study of neurasthenia and hysteria in 19th-century America .

Alexandra Linden Miller Keller is Associate Professor of Film Studies. She received her B.A. in Art History from Harvard and her Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU. She specializes in the American Western, cinema and the postmodern, avant-garde and experimental film, and the relationship between cinema and other forms of artistic and cultural production, and has published work on all of these topics. Her essays have appeared in such journals as Cinema Journal , The Drama Review , Film & History and Lusitania, and in anthologies including Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life , Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, Westerns: Films through History, and Hollywood's Wests. She is the author of James Cameron , the first scholarly consideration of the director and his blockbuster context, and the author of the forthcoming The Endless Frontier: Westerns and American Identity from Reagan to Bush II . She is also working on a book about consumerism and cinema in the 1950s. She annually teaches the Introduction to Film class and the Seminar in Film Theory, and also teaches classes on Global Cinema, Women and Cinema, the avant-garde and visual culture, the Western, and a series of classes on American film and culture from the invention of cinema to the present.

Daphne Lamothe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies. She teaches a wide range of courses on African American literature, including African American Literature, 1746-1900, Twentieth Century African American Literature, The Harlem Renaissance, Black Women Writers and courses on migration and Diaspora. Her research interests center on the intersection of ethnography and the African-American imagination, the construction of cultural memory in contemporary Black fiction and narratives of migration and Diaspora. She has published essays on Zora Neale Hurston's synthesis of fiction and ethnography, Jean Toomer's adoption of the Gothic as a figure of racial miscegenation and Gloria Naylor's examination of cultural memory and gender. Her first book, which focuses on the uses of ethnography in New Negro fiction will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in Spring 2008.

dlamothe@email.smith.edu 

Richard Millington is Professor of English and the Director of American Studies. His main interest is nineteenth century American literature; more broadly, he is interested in the history of all kinds of imaginative expression in American culture, and is especially drawn to writers who are themselves interested in how culture works. He is the author of Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne and of the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance . He has also published essays on Hawthorne and on Willa Cather, and is the co-editor of Hitchcock's America, which includes his essay on North by Northwest . His current project is on the emergence of leisure in 19th-Century America. His courses include both pieces of the English department's survey of 19th-Century American literature and American Journeys, an exploration of multiethnic American literature.

rmilling@email.smith.edu 

Sherrill Redmon is director of the Sophia Smith Collection, an internationally important body of manuscripts and archives in American women's history and social history. Her degree (University of Kentucky, 1974) and teaching experience are in recent American history, especially modern intellectual and cultural history. Early in her career she studied the debunking school of biography that became popular in the 1920s and wrote a biography of one of its authors, W. E. Woodward. Since 1978 she has worked in the field of archives administration. She managed regional, medical, and women's history manuscripts collections at the University of Louisville for fifteen years before coming to Smith in 1993. Her current area of scholarly interest is the women's movements of the late 20th century.
sredmon@email.smith.edu

Kevin Rozario teaches courses in American popular culture, media studies, and cultural theory.  He received a BA (1st class) from the University of Warwick and an MA (with distinction) from the School of Oriental and African Studies in the UK . After receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997, he taught at Oberlin and Wellesley colleges before coming to Smith.  Although trained as a historian, his interdisciplinary interests keep pulling him into such other fields as literary criticism, media studies, philosophy, economics, environmental history, gender studies, politics, and cultural theory.  He endeavors to incorporate many of these approaches in his writing.  Among other works, he is the author of The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2007) an article in American Quarterly (2003) on mass culture, sensationalism, and the history of American humanitarianism, and the lead essay in the book The Resilient City (edited by Larry Vale and Tom Campanella).  He is currently writing a book under contract with Blackwell Press called Making Sense of American Culture , and directing a year-long interdisciplinary seminar for the Kahn Institute on Undergrounds and Underworlds. As part of this project he is writing an essay tentatively titled “Whatever Happened to the Underground?: The Culture of Capitalism, Race, and the Aesthetics of Dissent.” In addition to critiquing culture, he sometimes attempts to produce it: writing, playing guitar and singing for Merchant Bankers—a local band that performs melodic, country-inflected, occasionally dissonant, alternative pop. He also plays guitar in the American Studies band The Distractions.

krozario@email.smith.edu

Michael Thurston is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature. Michael Thurston received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois in 1995. He taught in the Yale University English department before coming to Smith in 2000. His teaching interests include American literature of all periods, especially poetry. In his teaching and scholarship alike, Thurston is particularly interested in literature as a set of cultural practices, inextricably bound up with other practices and institutions ranging from the modes of literary circulation and reception to popular culture and politics. He is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars and of numerous articles and reviews. He co-edited, with Jani Scandura, Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital, a collection of essays on modern American culture. He is currently at work on a book examining twentieth-century lyric poetry as an ethical practice, and on articles about the poetry of W.S. Merwin and the strange similarities between Shrek and Joyce's Ulysses.

mthursto@email.smith.edu

Susan Van Dyne is Chair of the Women's Studies Program. Teaching in the Women's Studies Program has given her access to an inspiring network of faculty and to interdisciplinary perspectives that have shaped the questions that are most important to her in both her teaching and research. With Marilyn Schuster, she co-edited a book on curriculum change, Women's Place in the Academy: Transforming the Liberal Arts Curriculum (1985). Her first book about poetry draws on the Sylvia Plath archives housed in the Rare Book collection here at Smith. Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems (University of North Carolina, 1993) analyzes the interrelationships of gender and the creative process, especially the ways Plath reworked autobiography in composing and revising her late poems. She's working on a new book, Proving Grounds: The Politics of Reading Contemporary Women Poets, that uses feminist criticism, post-colonial studies, and ethnic studies to locate poetic texts in history and to show the salience of gender, race, and nation has become more pronounced (and more contested) in producing readings both in and outside the academy. She's writing about poets she often teaches- Sharon Olds, Cathy Song, Rita Dove, Eavan Boland, and the rivalry between Sylvia Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes. An essay from the new book on Dove is included in Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering (Notre Dame, 1999), and a piece on Song is in Re-Placing America: Conversations and Contestations (University of Hawaii, 1999).

svandyne@email.smith.edu

Steve Waksman is Assistant Professor of Music and American Studies, having joined the Smith faculty in fall 2001. Educated at U.C. Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Minnesota, he has previously taught at Miami University of Ohio and Bowling Green State University. His research and teaching interests concentrate upon the history of U.S. popular culture especially music, but also film, television, and literature during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and upon the intersection of race, gender and sexuality.In 1998, his dissertation, "Instruments of Desire:The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience," won the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize awarded by the American Studies Association to the best dissertation of the year.Published as a book by Harvard University Press in 1999..Currently, he is writing an interpretive history of heavy metal and punk rock, tentatively titled "The Noise of Youth:Rethinking Rock through the Metal/Punk Continuum."

swaksman@email.smith.edu

Frazer Ward was educated at the University of Sydney, Australia and Cornell University . He has written extensively about contemporary art and the history of the art of the 1960's and 1970's. His work has appeared in journals including Art Journal , Art + Text, Documents, Frieze, October and Parkett, as well as in various anthologies. He teaches the History of Contemporary Art and Architecture at Smith College .

fward@email.smith.edu

Louis Wilson is Associate Professor of African-American Studies. His present research is focused on two areas: African-Americans in the American Revolutionary War and free blacks in Rhode Island prior to the Civil War. His most recent work has been the publication of an article in the book Love Across the Color Line and the completion of the high school text Americans (co-authored), a new series of social science text with Houghton and Mifflin. In 1999 he was a Senior Fulbright researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, working on a comparative history of South Africa and the United States. During the spring of 2006, he was a visiting professor of American Studies at the University of Hamburg.

lwilson@email.smith.edu