Program Director
Current Steering Committee
Robin Faith Bachin
Assoc. Professor
Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement
Donette Francis
Assoc. Professor
Director for the Center for Global Black Studies
Timothy P Watson
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Past Steering Committee
Michael T Bernath
Assoc. Professor
CHARLTON W. TEBEAU ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Laura Kohn Wood
Dean, School of Education and Human Development
Graduate Fellows
Carmen Petaccio is a current PhD candidate in English at the University of Miami. He holds a BA in Economics from New York University, an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, and an MA in English from the University of Miami. His fiction, nonfiction, and criticism have previously appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and The Baffler. He has offered two popular courses in American Studies: “Brand is the Star: American Narratives of Art & Business After the Great Recession” and AMS 101: Your Problematic Fav: American Art in the Age of Cancellation 
Elizabeth Cornick is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Miami. Her research explores literary and cultural responses to war and peace in 20th-century U.S. literature. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. Elizabeth previously served as a Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow on the projects Mapping Imaginary Miami and ArchBio, supervised by Dr. Allison Schifani and Dr. Susanna Allés Torrent, respectively. She has designed two courses in American Studies: “American Cities: From Space to Place in the Twentieth Century” and “Narratives of Conflict: War, Peace, and American Cultural Memory in the 1960s”. As a co-convener of the American Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group, her work focuses on the role of the United States in a global context.
