Winona Wynn

Developing an Indigenous Studies Major (global north and south focus) that is community integrated, Ethnographic Study of young at-risk minority women (gang affiliated), Community Engagement Development (moving beyond the service model), Native American Retention at the high school and college level (strategies for curriculum development and family intervention), Women in prison--local and global human rights issues, literacy and education

American Studies (equity in representation for historically marginalized populations), Anthropology (Ethnographic interviewing and researcher positioning), Indigenous Studies (Mexican immigrant and Native American identity constructs; the concept of historical and contemporary allies in the context of advocacy), Criminal Justice (women in prison--local and global human rights issues and education)

Winona Wynn earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Washington State University. She currently serves as Chair of English and Humanities. Her research interests include indigenous identity constructs, Native American education and retention, ethnographic work with at-risk girls and women in prison. From her house, she can hear both train whistles and church bells.

Loretta McGrann

Leading the implementation of a new core curriculum implementation, Leading the writing of an Assessment Plan for the new core curriculum

American Literature, African-American Literature, Writing

Dr. Loretta McGrann is the Provost at St. Joseph's College, New York. Her discipline is American Literature, but she has been in administration for the last sixteen years.

Rob Lancefield

museum information work, standards, metadata, information architecture, digital preservation, digital media development, interaction design, usability

Rob Lancefield is Manager of Museum Information Services at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; he currently serves as Past President of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu).

Lynne Adrian

"Active and Collaborative Learning in a large introductory American Studies Class.", Reprinting with introduction the "Hobo News/Review" 1915-1930, book manuscript., "The Gulf Coast Disaster and the Values of America, " book manuscript.

Pedagogy of American Studies, including teaching with technology., Disasters as revelatory of cultural values., Hoboes, 1885-1935., American Women's History

Lynne M. Adrian is Chair of the Department of American Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama. She was a principle investigator in both the American Studies Crossroads Project, 1995-1998 and the Visible Knowledge Project, 2000-2005.

Bernie Cook

Hymns to Elsewhere (a multi-discliplinay, multi-media research collaboration)

Documentary Media, Media and Social Change, Film and Media History, Audience Reception

Dr. Bernie Cook is Associate Dean in Georgetown College and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Georgetown University. Dr. Cook is editor of Thelma & Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (University of Texas Press 2007) and has published articles on television news coverage of warfare and on violence in American fiction film. In 2008, he produced Why Y'all Are Here, a short video documentary about service learning. He earned his PhD in Critical Studies in Film and Television from the School of Theater, Film, and Television at UCLA. Since 1998, he has created and taught film and media studies courses in the English Department, the American Studies Program, and the Program in Justice and Peace at Georgetown. In 2001, he participated in the Documentary Film Institute at George Washington University, collaborating on a short documentary, Changing Room (2001), which has screened at film festivals in Washington, San Francisco, and Phoenix.

Brian A Bremen

I am currently working on a book that examines the ways in which popular music and populist politics intersect in the songs of Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, as well as on one tentatively entitled, What Was Modernism (And Does It Still Matter)?

20th-Century British and American Literature, Modernism, Pedagogy, American Literature, Computers and English Studies, Literature and Medicine, Pragmatism and Literature, Postmodernism, American Ethnogenesis, Literary Theory, Survey of Major Authors.

Brian A Bremen teaches English at The University of Texas at Austin.

Jo B. Paoletti

collaborative writing spaces, multicultural learning, undergraduate research, large lecture classes

American Studies, Cultural Studies, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Critical Pedagogy

Jo Paoletti is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland.

Colette Wanless-Sobel

Cultural and intellectual history, gender studies; composition and rhetoric, particularly in the area of critical thinking, Internet research, and computerized instruction.

Colette Wanless-Sobel has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota Her research interests lie in intellectual history, specifically, gender and sexuality, cyber culture, and distance education.