Department Chairs
Faculty
Jaafar Aksikas
Instructional Areas
Cultural Studies; Critical Ethnic Studies; Critical Theory; Research Methods and Methodologies; Post-Colonial Studies; Critical Media Studies; Globalization and Culture; Middle Eastern Cultural Studies; and American Studies.
Rojhat Avsar
Instructional Areas
Ethics, Behavioral Economics, Money as a Social Institution
Cari Beecham
Instructional Areas
Gender, sexuality, race, social class, inequality
Ava Belisle-Chatterjee
Instructional Areas
Methods courses for teaching at the K - 8th grade levels, especially math and social studies methods.
Andrew Causey
Instructional Areas
Social-cultural Anthropology, Art/Creativity, Ethnographic methodology, Affect Studies, Tourism, Material Culture, Narrative, Linguistics
Steven Corey
Instructional Areas
Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, History
Gabriela Diaz de Sabates
Instructional Areas
Women, gender, and sexuality studies; Latino and Latin American studies, women's life stories, oral stories and narratives, gender and immigration, state violence and gender.
Carmelo Esterrich
Instructional Areas
Latin American Studies Cultural Studies Semiotics Interdisciplinary Humanities
Stephanie Frank
Instructional Areas
religion and modernity, religion and violence, religion and gender, religion and capitalism, religion in Chicago, ethics, modern European history
Rami Gabriel
Instructional Areas
Courses taught include: Self and Identity: the Mind–Body Question, The Psychology of Consciousness, Freud and His Legacy in Twentieth Century Arts, Drugs and the Brain, Evolution of the Mind, Soul, Country and USA, and Emotions.
Keith Green
Instructional Areas
LGBT History in the U.S., Ancient, Medieval, and Modern European History.
Terri Griffith
Instructional Areas
Queer Theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies I and II
Ann Hetzel Gunkel
Instructional Areas
Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Media and Popular Culture, Humanities
C. Richard King
Instructional Areas
race and representaion, sport and society, white power movements and ideologies, imagining American Indians in Chicago
Frederic Kopp
Instructional Areas
20th Century German History & Culture; Ancient, Medieval & Modern European History
Erin McCarthy
Instructional Areas
History of Chicago, Oral History, Public History, 1930s, Sport History.
Nicholas McCormick
Instructional Areas
United States History; History of Chicago; Urban History; History of the Future
Marla McMackin
James Mullane
Instructional Areas
James Mullane teaches courses in philosophy, ethics, critical thinking, and a course that explores the nature of the mind and personal identity.
Marni Nissen Olmstead
Instructional Areas
Early Childhood Education, Arts Integration
Katie Paciga
Instructional Areas
Children's Literature, Literacy Development (including Digital and Media Literacy), Language Development, Culture & Education, Child Development, Educational Interactive Media, Teaching Methods
Teresa Prados-Torreira
Instructional Areas
Her classes include “American Cultural History,” “The Nineteen Twenties and the Birth of Modern America,” “Cartoons and Satire in American History” and “Letters from the American Past.”
Robert Watkins
Instructional Areas
Political Theory, Cultural Studies, American Politics
Michelle Yates
Instructional Areas
Cultural studies; Critical whiteness studies; Environmental humanities; Film and media; Gender and sexuality; Technology and culture; Urban studies
