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Iver Bernstein
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...

Expertise: 19th-century U.S. history, Civil War, Reconstruction, American political culture

Direct contact: (314) 935-5401
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icbernst@wustl.edu

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Howard Brick
 Professor of History in Arts & Sciences

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Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...

Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4251
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hbrick@wustl.edu

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Randall Calvert
 Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science in Arts & Sciences

Calvert, a specialist in American politics and in positive political theory, joined the faculty as a professor of political science in October 1999. He also taught at WUSTL as assistant professor from 1979-1985 and as associate professor from 1985-87. In 1984-85, he was a postdoctoral fellow in political ...

Expertise: constitutional politics, legislative politics, political communication, electoral politics, game theory

Direct contact: (314) 935-5846
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calvert@artsci.wustl.edu

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DB Dowd
 Professor of Art

DB Dowd is a professor of Ccommunication Design and American Culture Studies. He holds a joint appointment in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts and the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

Direct contact: (314) 935-8403
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dbdowd22@wustl.edu

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Garrett Duncan
 Associate Professor of Education

Garrett Duncan studies conditions that attribute to success and failure among black students in public schools, especially in competitive settings. He examines academic and social issues, with a special focus on high-stakes testing, education reform, violence, and racial disparities in achievement ...

Expertise: education reform, high stakes testing, racial disparities, social issues, urban schools

Direct contact: (314) 935-8740
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gaduncan@wustl.edu

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Gerald L. Early
 Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters

Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ...

Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5576
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glearly@wustl.edu

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Peter J. Kastor
 Associate Professor of History in Arts & Sciences


Expertise: The American presidency, role of the vice president, American political institutions, the Founding Fathers, federal governance and governing foreign peoples, American foreign policy in 19th century, early American republic, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-7663
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pjkastor@wustl.edu

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David T. Konig
 Professor of History and Professor of Law

David Konig teaches colonial American history and civilization. His research interests include the development of constitutional and legal institutions in early America, Anglo-American legal history and American culture studies.

Expertise: Early America, Anglo-American legal history, American culture studies, colonial American history and civilization, constitutional origins in revolutionary America, constitutional law, the Bill of Rights, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5459
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konig@wustl.edu

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