American studiesMajor

Major Requirements Courses

Program Contact

Ann Duncan, Department Chair, Susan D. Morgan Professor of American Studies and Religion and Executive Director, Goucher Prison Education Partnership, American Religious History, Religion and Social Reform, Motherhood and American Christianity, Religion and Politics, New Religious Movements. 

Full-Time & Half-Time Faculty

Maxwell Greenberg, Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies: Ethnic, Jewish and Religious Studies, Western Empire and Settler Colonialism(s), Colonial Americas, and Modern US, Race, Religion and Public Memory

Matthew Rainbow Hale, Associate Professor of History: Early American History, Atlantic Revolutions, Print Culture

Nina Kasniunas, Associate Professor of Political Science and Arsht Professor in Ethics and Leadership: American politics

Mary Marchand, Professor of English: American Literature, American Studies

Jeanie Murphy, Associate Professor, Hispanic and Latinx Studies: Latin American literature and theater, Latin American cultural studies, Latin American history, gender studies

Jamie Mullaney, Professor of Sociology: Culture and cognition, qualitative methods, gender, time, identity, emotions

Angelo Robinson, Associate Professor of English: African American literature, American Literature, American studies, gender and sexuality

Carolyn Schwarz, Assistant Professor of Anthropology: Cultural anthropology, global Christianity, health and wellbeing, healthcare delivery, food, Aboriginal Australia, anthropology of the United States

Janet Shope, Professor of Sociology: Sociology of medicine, inequality, gender, and research methods

Daniel Swann, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology: race, atheism, CRT, social psychology, religion, rhetoric and public discourse, methods, political sociology

David Zurawik, Assistant Professor: Journalism, Media Criticism, and New Media

Professor Emeritus or Emerita or Emeriti

Jean Baker, Bennett-Hartwood Professor of History: U.S. History, 19th Century, Women’s History

Julie Roy Jeffrey, Professor of History: 19th-Century American Reform, especially Abolitionism, Religion, Gender

Internships

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Student Employment

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Student employment connects students to both on and off-campus opportunities. The Career Education Office provides resources and support to students with or without Federal Work Study to find jobs, submit applications, and learn more about the job search process. Students have access to Handshake — a website for job postings, events, resumes/cover letters, and career management.

Major & Career Exploration

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Job Search

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Graduate & Professional School

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Students access resources for searching and applying to graduate and professional school through the CEO Graduate and Professional School page, through faculty and staff members, or utilizing their own resources, network and tools.

Academic Partnerships

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Goucher College has partnered with other institutions to provide students with expanded academic and post-graduate opportunities. Partnerships include dual-degree programs and accelerated graduate pathways with the following colleges: Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola, Middlebury, Notre Dame of Maryland University, University of Maryland Baltimore.