MEET THE FACULTY

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Warren Belasco, Ph.D. (History), University of Michigan

• Teaching areas: popular and material culture, cultural history, environmental studies
• Research interests: food, future studies, cultural history
• Advising areas: Communications, Media, and the Arts; Education; Culture and Policy
• belasco@umbc.edu

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Kathy Scales Bryan, Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park

• Teaching areas: education and cultural transmission, childhood and family, cultural and intellectual history
• Research interests: education history and policy, curriculum transformation, gender equity in education, cultural conflict and transformation, literature and society
• Advising areas: Education (including Elementary Education in Social Studies); Social Work; Culture and Policy; Community and Diversity
• kbryan@umbc.edu

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Nicole King, Ph.D. Candidate (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park

• Teaching areas: cultural studies, popular culture, media studies, material culture and cultural landscape studies
• Research interests: 20th century southern studies, postwar tourism and leisure Culture
• Advising areas: Communications and media
• nking@umbc.edu

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Jason Loviglio, Director CMST, Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Minnesota

• Teaching areas: popular culture, media studies, multiculturalism, 19th - 21st century American literature
• Research interests: cultural history of mass media
• Advising areas: Communications, Media, and the Arts; Community and Diversity
• loviglio@umbc.edu

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Patrice McDermott, CHAIR, Ph.D. (American Studies), University of Maryland, College Park

• Teaching areas: 20th - 21st century cultural history, multicultural and cross-cultural studies, gender studies, identity theory, culture theory
• Research interests: discourse analysis, mass media and publishing, sociology of knowledge, contemporary social movements
• Advising areas: Community and Diversity; Education; Communication, Media, and the Arts; Culture and Policy
• mcdermot@umbc.edu

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Kimberly R. Moffitt, Ph.D. (Mass Communication), Howard University

• Teaching areas: popular culture, intercultural communication/ multiculturalism, media studies, sports and entertainment
• Research interests: representations of sports stars and sporting events, hair/body politics, media representations of people of African descent
• kmoffitt@umbc.edu

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W. Edward Orser, Ph.D. (American Studies), University of New Mexico

• Teaching interests: community and urban studies, local history and Baltimore area, 20th - 21st century American society and culture, environmental studies
• Research interests: community studies, racial change, environment
• Advising areas: Community and Diversity; Education (including Secondary Education- Social Studies); Social Work
• orser@umbc.edu

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