Faculty & Staff

- Karín Aguilar-San Juan
- Professor of American Studies, Department Chair
- Focuses on Vietnam antiwar movement and critical prison studies
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- 651-696-6148

- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
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- 651-696-6478

- Kirisitina Sailiata
- Assistant Professor
- Focuses on Pacific History, Transnational Feminism and Critical Indigenous Studies
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- 651-696-6648

- Jake E. Nagasawa
- Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies
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- 651-696-6271
- he/him/his

- Jackie Starbird
- Department Coordinator
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- 651-696-6420
Advisory Committee

- William Hart
- Professor, Religious Studies
- Religion, Ethics, Politics
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- 651-696-6596

- Alicia Muñoz
- Associate Professor
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- 651-696-6509
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- Michael Prior
- Assistant Professor, English
- Poetry, politics of poetic form, Asian American poetries, creative nonfiction, intergenerational memory, literary citizenship.
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- 651-696-6532