Core Faculty

FACULTY MEMBER	CONTACT	RESEARCH AREAS
Aidé Acosta Visiting Assistant Professor	aiacosta indiana.edu 814 E. Third St. Room 118 (812) 855-4745	Latina/o migration and diaspora; labor, race and citizenship; social movements; immigrant rights; Latino cultural production; and gender and Chicana feminism
Marlon M. Bailey Assistant Professor	baileymm indiana.edu Memorial Hall W. 214 (812) 855-8255	African Diaspora studies, queer diasporas, race, gender, and sexuality, queer theory, Black queer studies, theatre/performance studies, ethnography, and HIV/AIDS (cultural politics, research, and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Black communities).
Deborah Cohn Chair Professor	dncohn indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 544B (812) 856-5993	Comparative literatures of the Americas, Faulkner and Spanish American literature, Mexican intelligensia, and the global South
Denise Cruz Director of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor On Leave	cruzd indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 442	Filipina/o literature, Asian/American literature, Ethnic American literature, late 19^th to 20^th century American literature, U.S. imperialism, gender and sexuality studies
Lessie Jo Frazier Associate Professor On Sabbatical	frazierl indiana.edu Memorial Hall E. 130 (812) 855-0101	Political culture in the Americas, the intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology, gender, and sexuality
Vivian Nun Halloran Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor	vhallora indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 521 (812) 856-5653	Depictions of slavery in both literature and museums, literary theory, postmodernism, cultural identities, feminism, queer and gender theory, non-fiction narratives
Karen M. Inouye Assistant Professor	kinouye indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 526	Asian American & Asian Canadian Studies, Transnational American Studies, 20th Century United States History
Robert L. Ivie Professor	rivie indiana.edu 800 E. Third St. Room 247 (812) 855-5467	Rhetorical critique of U.S. public culture; democracy; war propaganda; peace-building communication.
Jason Baird Jackson Associate Professor	jbj indiana.edu 506 N. Fess Ave. Room 301 (812) 856-1868	Folklore studies, ethnology, ethnography, ethnohistory, material culture, cultural performance, property and heritage
Susan Lepselter Assistant Professor	slepselt indiana.edu 800 E. Third St. Room 285 (812) 856-3878	American popular culture, social theory, semiotics, native american studies
Michael T. Martin Professor	martinmt indiana.edu 044 Wells Library (812) 855-7631	Diasporic and émigré formations, transnational migration, diasporic and postcolonial film
Jason P. McGraw Assistant Professor	jpmcgraw indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 742 (812) 855-5106	Latin America and Caribbean, slavery/emancipation/race, popular culture
Micol Seigel Associate Professor	mseigel indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 517 (812) 855-7707	Race in the Americas; racial theory; transnational method; popular culture; Brazil; Latin American studies; history; mass incarceration; the Cold War; postcolonial and queer theory; cultural studies
Stephen Selka Assistant Professor	sselka indiana.edu Sycamore Hall 205	Religion, identity, and politics; identity and social movements; Brazil and the U.S.; diaspora studies; transnational tourism; urban anthropology
Christina Snyder Assistant Professor	snyderch indiana.edu Ballantine Hall 828 (812) 855-2287	Native North America; Early America; The American South; Race and Slavery