Affiliated Faculty
Wenda Bauchspies, Assistant Professor of STS; Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Science-Society.
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.
Jeremy Engels, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Science; Ph.D., University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. Rhetorical foundations of democratic practices.
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,
Professor
of Philosophy. PhD, Marquette University. American
Philosophy, Semiotics, the philosophy of Charles Peirce.
Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison. Technology and American society; social history of leisure.
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.
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.
Jane Juffer, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies; Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Latina/o studies; cultural studies; and feminist 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.
Michael Rios, Assistant Professor or Architecture Director of the Hamer Center for Design Assistance; M.Arch., M.C.P., University of California, Berkeley; citizenship; democracy and public space; governance and institutions; and political geography.
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.
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, Associate 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.

