Faculty & Staff
![Karín Aguilar-San Juan](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2017/10/Karin-photo-e1700601992512-150x0-c-default.png)
- Karín Aguilar-San Juan
- Professor of American Studies, Department Chair
- Focuses on Vietnam antiwar movement and critical prison studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6148
![Duchess Harris](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2020/08/Duchess-Profile-Photo-scaled-e1700601736936-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6478
![Kirisitina Sailiata](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2019/10/Saliata_Kirisitina_AmericanStudies-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Kirisitina Sailiata
- Assistant Professor
- Focuses on Pacific History, Transnational Feminism and Critical Indigenous Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6648
![Jake E. Nagasawa](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2018/10/NagasawaDec2022-e1705967466692-150x0-c-default.png)
- Jake E. Nagasawa
- Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6271
- he/him/his
![Jackie Starbird](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2023/11/starbird-square-images-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Jackie Starbird
- Department Coordinator
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6420
Advisory Committee
![William Hart](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2017/10/williamhart-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- William Hart
- Professor, Religious Studies
- Religion, Ethics, Politics
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6596
![Alicia Muñoz](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2023/11/alicia-e1700602336862-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Alicia Muñoz
- Associate Professor
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6509
- she/her/ella
![Michael Prior](https://www.macalester.edu/american-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/551/2024/06/michael-prior-1-150x0-c-default.jpg)
- Michael Prior
- Assistant Professor, English
- Poetry, politics of poetic form, Asian American poetries, creative nonfiction, intergenerational memory, literary citizenship.
- [email protected]
- 651-696-6532