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Michael Cowan Title:  Professor of American Studies, Acting Executive Director, Universitywide Education Abroad Program Email:  mhcowan@ucsc.edu Phone:  (805) 893-2755 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  230 Humanities I Research Focus:  American cultural theory and history, history of American Studies, symbolic expression in American life, urban cultural studies, American literary studies, studies in the institutional culture of higher education

Kimberly Lau Title:  Provost, Oakes College; Associate Professor of American Studies Email:  lau@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5145 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Humanities I 239 Research Focus:  Feminist Theories of Embodiment and Identity; Fairy tales, Folklore, and Narrative; Discourse Analysis and Ethnographic Methods; Virtual Worlds

Amy Lonetree Title:  Assistant Professor of American Studies Email:  lonetree@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3098 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Humanities I 234 Research Focus:  Indigenous History, Museum Studies, Memory and American History, Native American Cultural Production, Public History, and Ho-Chunk Tribal History

Eric Porter Title:  Chair - American Studies; Professor of American Studies Email:  ecporter@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-5287 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Humanities I 235 Research Focus:  Black cultural and intellectual history; US cultural history and cultural studies; comparative ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies.

Catherine Ramírez Title:  Associate Professor of American Studies Email:  cathysue@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4517 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Humanities I 237 Personal Page:  http://americanstudies.ucsc.edu/csramirez/index.html Research Focus:  Chicana and Latino literature and twentieth-century Mexican-American history; The participation of Mexican-American women in the zoot sub-culture of the 1940s; women in pachuca and pachuco in Chicano cultural production since the 1960s; science-fiction writing; black speculative fiction

Renya Ramirez Title:  Associate Professor of American Studies Email:  renya@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-3109 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Humanities I 236 Research Focus:  Urban Native Americans, diaspora, transnationalism, Native feminisms, gender and cultural citizenship, and relationship between Native Americans and anthropology, and anti-racist education.

Forrest Robinson Title:  Professor of American Studies Email:  robinson@ucsc.edu Phone:  (831) 459-4566 Office (831) 459-1925 Fax (831) 459-1924 Message Office:  Stevenson College 272 Research Focus:  American literature and culture, the American novel (Twain, Melville, Faulkner), regional literature, California studies, popular culture, and American cultural theory.