Our People

William​ Acree​

  • Associate Vice Dean of Graduate Education
  • Professor of Spanish, American Culture Studies (Affiliate) and Performing Arts (Affiliate) Co-Director, Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures

Ridgley 313

Carol Camp Yeakey

  • Professor of Education, Urban Studies, International and Area Studies, African and African American Studies, and American Culture Studies
  • Founding Director of the Center on Urban Research & Public Policy and the Interdisciplinary Program in Urban Studies

Seigle Hall 142

​Shefali Chandra

  • ​Associate Professor of History, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Asian American Studies
  • Co-Director of Graduate Programs in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

McMillan Hall, Room 207

Joanna Dee​ Das

  • Associate Professor of Dance​
  • Director of Graduate Studies of MFA Program in Dance Faculty Affiliate in the Program in American Culture Studies Faculty Affiliate in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (CRE2)

Mallinckrodt Center 304B

​Todd Decker

  • Professor of Musicology, American Culture Studies, and Film and Media Studies Performing Arts Department (Affiliate)

Tietjens Hall 204 / Blewett Hall 102

​Andrea Friedman​

  • Professor of History and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies MA MA/JD Programs Director Professor Emeritus of the Department of History

​Peter Kastor

  • Samuel K. Eddy Professor
  • Professor of History and American Culture Studies Professor of Law (by courtesy) Associate Vice Dean of Research Director of Undergraduate Studies in History

Busch Hall 118

Heidi Kolk

  • Assistant Professor in the Sam Fox School of Design + Visual Arts, and Assistant Vice Provost for Assessment in the Office of the Provost

Elaine Peña

  • Professor of Performing Arts, American Culture Studies, and Anthropology
  • Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2)

Mallinckrodt, 315

Sami Tayeb

  • Lecturer in American Culture Studies
  • Clinical Research Coordinator, Program in Occupational Therapy

McMillan Hall 245

Vetta Thompson

  • E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity
  • Professor

    Rebecca Wanzo

    • Chair and Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
    • African and African-American Studies, Courtesy Affiliation American Culture Studies, Courtesy Affiliation English, Courtesy Affiliation Film and Media Studies, Courtesy Affiliation

    McMillan Hall 215

    Geoff Ward

    • Professor of African and African American Studies
    • Director, WashU & Slavery Project, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) Faculty Affiliate in Sociology and American Culture Studies

    McMillan Hall 237