There are two levels of Graduate Faculty Membership:

• A Member of the Graduate Faculty is authorized to teach graduate courses, serve on graduate student advisory committees, and co-chair Master's Theses.


• A Senior Member of the Graduate Faculty is authorized to teach graduate courses, serve on graduate advisory committees, and serve as thesis and dissertation advisors and chairs (mentors). Both levels of membership have the authority to serve on thesis and dissertation committees.

Ann Taylor Allen (Senior)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of History

Annette Allen (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Texas
Associate Professor of Humanities

David Anderson (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of English

Jack Ashworth (Senior)
D.M.A., Stanford University
Professor of Music History

Lateef O. Badru (Senior)
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Associate Professor of Sociology
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies

Blake Raymond Beattie (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Associate Professor of History

Matthew Biberman (Senior)
Ph.D., Duke University
Assistant Professor of English

Dale Billingsley (Senior)
Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of English

Mark E. Blum (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Professor of History

Beth Boehm (Senior)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Associate Professor of English

Marc P. Bousquet (Senior)
Ph.D., City University of New York
Associate Professor of English

Garry Brown (Senior)
M.F.A., University of Memphis
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Rhonda L. Buchanan (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

R. Todd Burns (Member)
M.F.A., Indiana University
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Nefertiti Burton (Senior)
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Thomas Buser (Senior)
Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts
Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Thomas B. Byers (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Professor of English

Joy Carew (Member)
Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies

Mary Carothers (Senior)
M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Aristofanes CedeÒo (Member)
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Associate Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Ying Kit Chan (Senior)
M.F.A., University of Cincinnati
Professor of Fine Arts

Karen M. Chandler (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of English

Jean Christensen (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Music History

Karen Christopher (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Geoffrey Arthur Cross (Senior)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Professor of English

John T. Cumbler, Jr. (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor of History

William Leonard Cunningham (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Matthieu Dalle (Member)
Ph.D., Penn State University
Assistant Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Julia C. Dietrich (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Professor of English

Mary E. Dogbe (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies

Robert L. Douglas, Sr. (Senior)
Ph.D., The University of Iowa
Professor of Fine Arts
Professor of Pan-African Studies

Mitch Eckert (Senior)
M.F.A., Ohio University
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Christine T. Ehrick (Member)
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles
Assistant Professor of History

Rinda Frye (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Christopher B. Fulton (Senior)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Linda Maria Gigante (Senior)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Zhanna Goldentul (Member)
U.S.A.A., Moscow Theatrical Art College
Costume Designer for Theatre Arts

Alan Golding (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of English

Lida G. Gordon (Senior)
M.F.A., Indiana University
Professor of Fine Arts

John P. Greene (Member)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin- Madison
Associate Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Susan M. Griffin (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of English

James T. Grubola (Senior)
M.F.A., Indiana University
Professor of Fine Arts

Karen C. Hadley (Member)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of English

Dennis R. Hall (Senior)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Professor of English

Barbara L. Hanger (Senior)
M.F.A., Ohio University
Professor of Fine Arts

Benjamin Harrison (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of History

Riffat Hassan (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Durham, England
Professor of Humanities

Dawn Heinecken (Senior)
Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

Suzette A. Henke (Senior)
Ph.D. Stanford University
Thurston B. Morton, Sr., Professor of English

Michael F. Hottois (Senior)
M.F.A., Brandeis University
Professor of Theatre Arts

J. Blaine Hudson (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies

Benjamin G. Hufbauer (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Brian Andre Huot (Senior)
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Professor of English

Gregory S. Hutcheson (Member)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

B. Folasade Iyun (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Ghana, Legon
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies

A. Eileen John (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Humanities

Ricky L. Jones (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies

Debra Journet (Senior)
Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
Professor of English

Tracy E. K'Meyer (Senior)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Associate Professor of History

Gina Kaufmann (Senior)
M.F.A., University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts

Robert B. Kebric (Senior)
Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
Professor of History

Robert H. Kimball (Senior)
Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor of Humanities

Jay Martin Kloner (Senior)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Avery H. Kolers (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Arizona
Assistant Professor of Humanities

Karen Kopelson (Member)
Ph.D., Purdue University
Assistant Professor of English

Wayne E. Lee (Senior)
Ph.D., Duke University
Assistant Professor of History

Alan C. Leidner (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Estella C. Majozo (Member)
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Professor of English

Mary Makris (Senior)
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Dismas A. Masolo (Senior)
Ph.D., Gregorian University, Rome
Professor of Humanities
Justice Bier Distinguished Professor of Humanities

Scott Massey (Member)
M.F.A., Arizona State University
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Carol Mattingly (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Louisville
Professor of English

Gabrielle Mayer (Member)
M.F.A., Bowling Green University
Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Justin A. McCarthy (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of History

Andrea L. McElderry (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Professor of History

Manual F. Medina (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Associate Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

William J. Morison (Senior)
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of History

Karen A. Mullen (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Associate Professor of English

Sena Kathryn Naslund (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Professor of English

Raphael Chijioke Njoku (Member)
Ph.D., Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Assistant Professor of History

Seow-Chin Ong (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor of Music History

David S. Owen (Member)
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago
Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Wendy Pfeffer (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Nancy L. Potter (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Associate Professor of Humanities

Glynis Ridley (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Oxford
Associate Professor of English

Regina Roebuck (Member)
Ph.D., Cornell University
Associate Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Mary Rosner (Senior)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Associate Professor of English

Susan M. Ryan (Senior)
Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Assistant Professor of English

Sydney P. Schultze (Senior)
Ph.D., Indiana University
Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Julia W. Shinnick (Member)
Ph.D., University of Texas
Professor of Music History

Steven Skaggs (Senior)
M.S., Pratt Institute
Professor of Fine Arts

Jeffrey T. Skinner (Senior)
M.F.A., Columbia University
Professor of English

Karen E. Spierling (Member)
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor of History

Robert St. Clair (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Professor of English

Mary A. Stenger (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Associate Professor of Humanities

Pamela D. Takayoshi (Senior)
Ph.D., Purdue University
Associate Professor of English

Nancy M. Theriot (Senior)
Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Professor of History Professor of Women's Studies

Lundeana M. Thomas (Senior)
Ph.D., The University of Michigan
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

James Tompkins (Senior)
M.A., University of Washington
Diplome, Ecole Jacques Lecoq Paris, France
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Bruce M. Tyler (Senior)
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Associate Professor of History

Thomas A. Van (Senior)
Ph.D., Duke University
Professor of English

Russell Vandenbroucke (Senior)
D.F.A., Yale School of Drama
Professor of Theatre Arts

Lisa Wagner (Member)
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Assistant Professor of Classical and Modern Languages

Lee Shai Weissbach (Senior)
Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of History

John D. Whitesell (Senior)
M.F.A., Indiana University
Professor of Fine Arts

Ann Elizabeth Willey (Senior)
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Associate Professor of English

Bronwyn T. Williams (Senior)
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
Assistant Professor of English

Elaine O. Wise (Senior)
M.A., Indiana University
Assistant Professor of English
Assistant Professor of Humanities

Joanna Wolfe (Senior)
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor of English

Jonathan R. Ziskind (Senior)
Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor of History