Faculty and Staff

Core Faculty in Cultural Studies

Jaafar Aksikas
Associate Professor
Director of the Cultural Studies Program
BA (with highest honors), English, Chouaib Doukkali University; MA, Humanities and Comparative Cultural Studies, Al Akhawayn University; PhD, Cultural Studies, George Mason University.


Sean Johnson Andrews
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies
BA, Communication, Southwestern University; MA, English Literature, George Mason University; PhD, Cultural Studies, George Mason University.

Carmelo Esterrich
Associate Professor of Spanish, Humanities, and Cultural Studies
BA, Film Studies, Pennsylvania State University; MA, Spanish, Pennsylvania State University; PhD, Spanish, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

Zack Furness
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies
Coordinator of the Cultural Studies Minor
BA, English, Pennsylvania State University; MA Certificate, Women’s Studies; MA, Communication; PhD, Communication, University of Pittsburgh.

 

Ann Hetzel Gunkel
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Humanities
BA (cum laude), Philosophy, Foreign Languages and Literature, Marquette University; MA with Distinction, Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago; PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University.

 

Ames Hawkins
Associate Professor of English
BA, American Culture, University of Michigan; MA, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University; PhD, Composition and Rhetoric, Wayne State University.

 

Douglas Reichert Powell
Associate Professor of English
BA, English, Washington and Lee University; MA, English, East Tennessee University; PhD, English, Northeastern University.

 

Robert Watkins
Associate Professor of Political Science and Cultural Studies
BA, Political Science, Johns Hopkins University; MA and PhD, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania.

 

Rebecca West
Lecturer in Cultural Studies
BA (with high honors), Sociology, Texas Tech University; MA, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago; PhD Candidate, Sociology, Loyola University Chicago.

 

Affiliate Faculty in Cultural Studies

Kadji Amin
Assistant Professor
BA, French, New College of Florida; Graduate Certificate, Feminist Studies, Duke University; MA, Romance Studies (French), Duke University; PhD, Romance Studies (French), Duke University.

 

Brendan Riley
Assistant Professor of English
BA, English, St. John's University; MA, English, University of Florida; PhD, English, University of Florida.

 

Adjunct Faculty in Cultural Studies

Janina Ciezadlo 
 Terri Griffith
Nicole Garneau
Ted Harwood
Laura Korey
Evin Rodkey
Phil Scepanski

 

Staff

Christie Dal Corobbo
Academic Administrator
Cultural Studies and Minors Programs
312.369.7297
cdalcorobbo@colum.edu