Social Thought Program

Thomas W. Benson, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric; Department of Communication Arts and Sciences; Ph.D., Cornell University.  Rhetorical criticism of film and political discourse.

Stephen H. Browne,  Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison. History of rhetoric; rhetoric of political thought; language of politics.

 

John Christman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Science; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago. Social and Political Philosophy, History of political thought, aesthetics.

Christine Clark-Evans, Associate Professor of French and Women's Studies; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College. Intellectual history, poetics, and gender in the Renaissance; Diderot; philosophy and language in the eighteenth century.

Vincent Colapietro, Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy.  PhD, Marquette University.  American Philosophy, Semiotics, the philosophy of Charles Peirce.

 

Clair Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English. PhD, University of Edinburgh; Contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory, literary theory, contemporary music, dance, visual culture and political theory.

Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Technology and American society; social history of leisure.

 

Sophie de Schaepdrijver. Associate Professor of Modern European History. PhD. University of Amsterdam. Social and Cultural History of Western Europe.

 

Mark Dirsmith, Professor of Accounting; Ph.D., Northwestern University. Expanding boundaries of the audit function.

 

Richard Doyle, Professor of English; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Rhetorics of technoscience, corporeality, theory, and science fiction.

 

Rosa Eberly.Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, and English; Ph.D., Pennsylvantia State University. Histories of Rhetorical Theory; Rhetoric and Democracy, Civic Engagement, Ancient Rhetorics, Gender and Discourse.

 

Jonathan Eburne, Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English; P.D., University of Pennsylvania. Surrealism and the Avant-Garde; Critical Theory; International Modernism.

 

Greg Eghigian, Associate Professor of Modern European History; Ph.D., University of Chicago. Modern European Social and Political Theory; History and Theory of the Human Sciences; Modern European Historiography.

 

Jeremy Engels, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Science; Ph.D., University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign.  Rhetorical foundations of democratic practices.

 

Cary Fraser, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History; Ph.D., Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva. African American History in the 20th Century; Caribbean History; Imperialism and Decolonization; 20th Century American Political and Diplomatic History; and, the History of International Relations since 1870.

 

Roger Geiger, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education; Ph.D., University of Michigan. History of U.S. Universities and Science Policy

 

Baruch Halpern, Chair in the Jewish Studies and Professor of Ancient History, Mediterranean Studies, and Religious Studies; Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies; Ph.D., Harvard University. Textual exegesis of the Old Testament; cultural, social and political studies of ancient Israel.

 

J. Philip Jenkins, Director, Religious Studies Program; Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History; Ph.D., Cambridge University. Means by which social problems are constructed and presented in politics and the media; history of fascist, Nazi, and anti-semitic movements in Pennsylvania circa 1925-1950.

 

Matt Jordan, Assistant Professor of Communications; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University. Media studies; film studies; cultural studies; and critical theory.

 

Djelal Kadir, The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature; Post-colonialism; multi-culturalism; Latin American literature.

 

Lisa Lattuca, Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate of Higher Education; Ph.D. University of Michigan; Educational theory and philosophy.

Nancy Love, Associate Professor of Political Science and Speech Communications; Ph.D., Cornell University. Social and Political Theory, with an emphasis on critical theory, democratic theory, and feminist theory.

 

Matt McAllister, Associate Professor of Communications; Ph.D. University of Illinois; advertising criticism; popular culture; the political economy of the mass media; and consumer and popular culture

 

John McCarthy, Professor of Sociology and Graduate Officer; Ph.D., University of Oregon.  Social movements; political sociology; formal organizations.

 

Wilson J. Moses, Ferree Professor of American History; Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies; Ph.D., Brown University. The myth of moral progress; African American ideology; the historiography of decline in American popular culture.

 

Mark Munn, Associate Professor of History, and Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania. Ancient Greek history and thought, ancient Mediterranean religions, classical archaeology.

 

Jeffrey Nealon, Professor of English; Ph.D., Loyola University. Contemporary literary theory.

 

Aldon Nielsen, The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature; Ph.D. George Washington University;  Cultural studies; race and ethnicity;  ethics; African American literature and music;  literary theory; and philosophy.

 

Paul Lawrence Rose, Professor of European History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies; Docteur en Histoire, Universite de Paris I Sorbonne. Anti-Semitism in philosophy, literature and music.

 

Sanford Schwartz, Associate Professor of English; Modernism, postmodernism, and film.

 

Alan Sica, Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., University of Massachusetts. Classical and contemporary social theory; hermeneutics; rhetoric of social thought.

 

Mrinalini Sinha, Liberal Arts Research Professor, Professor of History. PhD. SUNY Stoneybrook; Colonial India, British Empire, Modern Politics and Society.

 

Susan Merrill Squier, The Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English; Ph.D., Stanford University. Feminist theory; the cultural studies of science; literature and medicine.

 

Allan Stoekl, Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo. Post-World War II philosophy, sociology, and literature.

Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies and Associate Director of the Rock Ethics Institute; Ph.D. Vanderbilt University. Feminist theory, American pragmatism, 19th & 20th C.  European philosophy, and critical race theory.

 

Nancy Tuana,

DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy; Director, Rock Ethics Institute; Ph.D. University of California. Science Studies with an emphasis on epistemological and ethical issues; Feminist Philosophy

 

Melissa Wright, Associate Professor of Geography and Women's Studies. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins. Political Economy, Gender, Urban and Economic Geography, Mexico, The Mexico-U.S. Borderlands