Faculty Expertise
Throughout your time at 蜜桃传媒, you will work with faculty in classes, lab and field work, internships, and more. Faculty serve as teachers and mentors, and as advisors for your Senior Capstone Experience (SCE). Explore the research interests of our faculty below.
American Studies Faculty
Richard De Prospo
Director of American Studies
Ernest A. Howard Professor of English and American Studies
Richard De Prospo
Director of American Studies
Ernest A. Howard Professor of English and American Studies
Areas of Expertise
American culture
Research
I have for some years been introducing a topic into American Studies and English courses at 蜜桃传媒, and into my scholarship as well, that is usually confined to demographics. Generation is central to AMS/ENG 376 鈥淐ulture of the Old/Cultures of the Young,鈥� as well as to my latest book, Exceptionally Backward: Economic, Racial, Gender, and Generation Inequality in a Neo-Colonial US. Now that I'm old, I'm eager to collaborate with current and future 蜜桃传媒 students to instruct me on ever younger cultures of the young about which I, ever aging, have lost touch.
Adam Goodheart
Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Adam Goodheart
Hodson Trust-Griswold Director of the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience
Areas of Expertise
Historical Writing, Journalism
Research
I have taught and co-taught 蜜桃传媒 courses in American Studies, English, History, Anthropology, Theatre, and Art, as well as in the freshman seminar program. As a teacher, I believe in working collaboratively with his students on projects that take them beyond the classroom, contributing in tangible ways to scholarly knowledge, public awareness, and general awesomeness.
Heather Harvey
Associate Professor of Studio Art
Heather Harvey
Associate Professor of Studio Art
Areas of Expertise
Painting, Drawing, Installation, Sculpture, Found and repurposed materials
Research
My creative projects and teaching are centered around an interest in ethics + social justice, philosophy, poetry, science, and subjective vs objective experiences. I teach students traditional studio skills (painting, drawing, sculpture/installation) while also emphasizing experimental, exploratory, and interdisciplinary approaches including working with nontraditional and found materials. Students learn their materials and processes are core drivers of meaning in their art, and that making art is an embodied way to think and make sense of their world.
Sean Meehan
Professor of English
Director of Writing
Co-Director of the Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning
Sean Meehan
Professor of English
Director of Writing
Co-Director of the Cromwell Center for Teaching and Learning
Areas of Expertise
American environmental writing; American Transcendentalism and 19th century literature and rhetoric; nonfiction, documentary, autobiography
Research
I regularly teach writing and rhetorical knowledge that engages with media, both older (such as photography and film) and newer (such as digital text and AI). These are technologies that might help us compose but also help us think about writing, which is itself a technology. Documentary film and literature are a particular area I teach for exploring writing in relation to media and technology.
I also teach and advise projects on environmental literature and writing, what is now more broadly called environmental humanities, and have focused on authors such as Henry David Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Wendell Berry, and Leslie Marmon Silko.
Ken Miller
Associate Professor of History
Ken Miller
Associate Professor of History
Areas of Expertise
Colonial, revolutionary, and early national North American history
Research
I'm an historian of colonial, revolutionary, and early national North America. My current research concerns an infamous murder case in revolutionary New England.
Patrick Nugent
Thomas V. Mike Miller Director of Civic Engagement
Patrick Nugent
Thomas V. Mike Miller Director of Civic Engagement
Areas of Expertise
Urban, environmental, and public history
Research
I am an urban, environmental, and public historian of twentieth-century America. His research and teaching efforts investigate the intersections between place, race, culture, and environment. I teach courses on twentieth century American culture and politics in addition to collaborating on public and oral history projects with fellow faculty, staff, students, and community members.
Joseph Prud'homme
Burton Family Associate Professor of Religion, Politics, and Culture
Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies
Joseph Prud'homme
Burton Family Associate Professor of Religion, Politics, and Culture
Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies
Areas of Expertise
Political philosophy, legal theory, intellectual histroy, religious studies
Research
I work in the areas of political philosophy, legal theory, intellectual history and religious studies.
Ken Schweitzer
Associate Professor of Music
Associate Chair of the Department of Music
Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communication
Ken Schweitzer
Associate Professor of Music
Associate Chair of the Department of Music
Assistant Dean for Marketing and Communication
Areas of Expertise
Afro-Cuban music
Research
My and performance expertise focus on Afro-Cuban music, particularly the sacred bat谩 drumming that accompanies the possession rituals of the religion known widely as Santer铆a. My research into Santer铆a traditions is ongoing; I have traveled to Cuba numerous times, as well as to Mexico City, Toronto and throughout the East Coast to Washington D.C., Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, Atlanta, Miami and Union City, N.J. to research Santer铆a traditions outside Cuba.
Aileen Tsui
Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History
Aileen Tsui
Nancy L. Underwood Associate Professor of Art History
Areas of Expertise
British, French and American art of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Research
In addition to delving into Whistler's career, my specialties include exoticism in visual culture, modernist painting, feminist theories in the visual arts, and the relationship between image and text.
Carol Wilson
Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History
Carol Wilson
Arthur A. and Elizabeth R. Knapp Professor of American History
Areas of Expertise
As a specialist in early national and antebellum African-American history, my work has centered around the boundaries of racial identity and status.
Research
My research with students includes the following recent projects:
- African-American Abolitionists on the Eastern Shore: a series of biographical panels on five prominent leaders. You can view the results in Goldstein Hall, first floor.
- Slavery and Freedom at 蜜桃传媒: Over the course of several years, I supervised the research of some twenty students investigating the connections between the College and both enslaved and free African Americans in Kent County.