Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Interests | Education |
|---|---|---|
| Adler, Gary Associate Professor of Sociology | Religion and society; civil society; contemporary social theory; Catholic social thought | Ph.D. University of Arizona |
| Allen, Amy Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | 20th century continental philosophy; critical social theory (esp. Frankfurt School); feminist theory; social and political theory. | Ph.D. Northwestern University |
| Baderoon, Gabeba Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies & African Studies | African literature; African feminism; slavery studies | Ph.D. University of Cape Town |
| Baker, David Professor of Sociology, Education, and Demography. Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University | Education and society; neo-institutional theory, institutions and world culture | Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University |
| Bernasconi, Robert Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies | Critical philosophy of race; slavery, Levinas, dialectics | Ph.D. Sussex University |
| Boittin, Jennifer Associate Professor of French, Francophone Studies and History | French colonial history (including sub-Saharan Africa, French Indochina, French Caribbean and North Africa); black and African diaspora; gender and women's studies; urban history; cultural studies and intellectual history; European history | Ph.D. Yale University |
| Browne, Stephen Liberal Arts Research Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences | History of rhetoric; rhetoric of political thought; language of politics | Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Castiglia, Christopher Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Nineteenth-century United States literature and culture; queer theory and sexuality studies; cultural theory; affect studies | Ph.D. Columbia University |
| Christman, John Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women's Studies | Social and political philosophy; history of political thought; aesthetics | Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Colebrook, Claire Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Contemporary European philosophy, feminist theory, literary theory, contemporary music, dance, visual culture and political theory | Ph.D. University of Edinburgh |
| Coletu, Ebony Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies | History and Theory of Forms, Paperwork, Welfare, Migration, and Fundraising for Social Change | Ph.D. Stanford University |
| de Schaepdrijver, Sophie Walter L. and Helen P. Ferree Professor of Modern European History (Modern Europe) | Social and cultural history of Western Europe | Ph.D. University of Amsterdam |
| Demo, Anne Assistant Professor in Communication Arts and Sciences | Visual/digital advocacy, environmentalism; feminist art activism; immigrant rights | Ph.D. Penn State University |
| Doyle, Richard Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Affiliate Faculty of Information Science and Technology | Rhetorics of technoscience; corporeality; theory; science fiction | Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
| Eberly, Rosa Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and English | Histories of rhetorical theory; rhetoric and democracy; civic engagement; ancient rhetoric; gender and discourse | Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University |
| Eburne, Jonathan Professor of Modern European History | Modern European Social and Political Theory; History and Theory of the Human Sciences; Modern European Historiography | Ph.D. University of Chicago |
| Eghigian, Greg Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French and Francophone Studies | Surrealism and the avant-garde; critical theory; international modernism | Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania |
| Engels, Jeremy Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies | Rhetorical foundations of democratic practices; rhetoric of war and peace; communication ethics; yoga and contemporary culture | Ph.D. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) |
| Ferraguto, Mark Associate Professor of Musicology | 18th- and early 19th-century music and culture; historical performance practices; music and politics | Ph.D. Cornell University |
| Sophie Belle, Kathryn Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies | Continental philosophy; Africana philosophy; philosophy of race; black feminist philosophy | Ph.D. University of Memphis |
| Glenna, Leland Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society | Agricultural science and technology studies; international development; social theory | Ph.D. University of Missouri |
| Hawhee, Debra McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and Professor of English and Communication Arts and Sciences | History of rhetoric (ancient and modern), rhetorical theory, materiality, animals and rhetoric | Ph.D. Penn State |
| Hayot, Eric Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies | Modernism and modernity; East-West comparison; narrative; virtual worlds; comparative poetics | Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Jordan, Matt Associate Professor of Communications | Media studies; film studies; cultural studies; critical theory | Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University |
| Marks, Jonathan Professor of Bioethics, Humanities, Law, and Philosophy | Bioethics; human rights; institutional corruption; law and regulation | B.C.L. Oxford University |
| Marsh, John Associate Professor of English | Modern and contemporary American Poetry; the 1930s; class and higher education | Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| McAllister, Matt Professor of Communications | Advertising criticism; popular culture; the political economy of the mass media; consumer and popular culture | Ph.D. University of Illinois |
| McCarthy, John Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Sociology | Social movements; political sociology; formal organizations | Ph.D. University of Oregon |
| Mendieta, Eduardo Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor in the School of International Affairs | Ethics and temporality; postcolonial Marx; moral reasoning; politics and society; war and peace | Ph.D. New School for Social Research |
| Miller, Sarah Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bioethics, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Moral philosophy; practical ethics; feminist philosophy; social and political philosophy | Ph.D. Stony Brook University |
| Munn, Mark Professor of Ancient Greek History and Greek Archeology, Departments of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History | Ancient Greek history and thought, ancient Mediterranean religions, classical archaeology | Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania |
| Nealon, Jeffrey Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Philosophy | Contemporary literary theory | Ph.D. Loyola University |
| Nielsen, Aldon The George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature | Cultural studies; race and ethnicity; ethics; African American literature and music; literary theory and philosophy | Ph.D. George Washington University |
| Purdy, Daniel Head, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures Professor of German | Connections between material culture and philosophical thought concentrating on the Goethezeit, consumer culture and architectural theory, and the German reception of Chinese culture in the early modern period | Ph.D. Cornell University |
| Rutler, Tracy Assistant Professor of French and Women's Studies | Early modern French and Francophone literature, gender studies, queer studies, disability studies, utopian fiction and domesticity | Ph.D. University of Minnesota |
| Sica, Alan Professor of Sociology | Classical and contemporary social theory; history of social sciences; hermeneutics; rhetoric of social thought | Ph.D. University of Massachusetts |
| Toadvine, Ted Associate Professor of Philosophy and Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute | Continental philosophy; philosophy of nature and environment; phenomenology; deconstruction and post-structuralism | Ph.D. University of Memphis |
| Tuana, Nancy DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy | Science Studies with an emphasis on epistemological and ethical issues; feminist philosophy | Ph.D. University of California |
| Ulmer, Jeffrey Professor of Sociology and Criminology | Sociological legacy of American pragmatism; symbolic interactionism; “Chicago School” of sociology; social deviance and institutions of social control | Ph.D. Penn State |
| Vivian, Bradford Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Director of Undergraduate Studies Director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation | Rhetoric and continental philosophy; public memory; rhetoric and political theory | Ph.D. Penn State |
| Vuillemin, Jean-Claude Liberal Arts Research Professor | Early Modern French Literature and Philosophy; Theater Theories and Performance Studies; Literary Criticism and Theory | Ph.D. Michigan State University |
| Wright, Melissa Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography | Political economy; gender; urban and economic geography; Mexico-U.S. borderlands | Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University |