# Department of American Studies: professors and courses Course codes AMS, URB Who teaches here **32** people Teaching 18 courses in Spring 2026 and Fall 2026. 16 professors · 3 lecturers and instructors · 13 graduate and other instructors ## Who teaches here Find a professor or course **Department of American Studies professors and instructors** | Name | Teaches | | --- | --- | | Professors · 16 | | | Gregory P Anderson [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Gregory%20Anderson#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16277998/) Assistant professor of instruction | [URB 360](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/360) | | [Aabiya Noman Baqai](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/ab69583) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Aabiya%20Noman%20Baqai#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17372671/) Assistant professor of instruction Social and Spatial Justice in Cities · Citizenship · Informality and Housing Affordability · Feminist Geographies | [URB 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/301), [URB 315](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/315), [URB 322R](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/322r), [URB 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/370) | | Alex A Beasley [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Alex%20Beasley#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16275609/) Assistant professor | [AMS 355](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/355), [AMS 390](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/390) | | [Jason R Borge](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/spanish/faculty/jrb4326) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17377324/) Professor Latin American popular music and sound studies · including Brazil · film and media studies · transnational American Studies | No classes listed this year | | [Lina Chhun](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lc39986) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16272908/) Assistant professor Transnational · feminist and queer methodologies · women of color feminisms · Southeast Asian American Studies | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | [Cary Cordova](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/cary) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/13873446/) Associate professor American Studies · Latino Studies · Art History / Visual Culture · Urban Studies | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | [Janet M Davis](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/davisjm8) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17389323/) Professor U.S. cultural · social · and environmental history · popular culture | No classes listed this year | | [Lauren Jae Gutterman](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lg32432) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Lauren%20Gutterman#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16996664/) Associate professor History of Women · Gender and Sexuality · American Studies · LGBTQ Studies | [AMS 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/310) | | [Steven D Hoelscher](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/hoelsch) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Steven%20Hoelscher#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16596786/) Professor Photography · Cultural and Historical Geography · Urban Studies · Cultural Memory | [L A 119](https://utaustin.guide/courses/l-a/119), [LAH 102H](https://utaustin.guide/courses/lah/102h) | | [Randolph R Lewis](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/lewisrr7) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/8309738/) Professor surveillance and society · creative nonfiction · documentary expression · public scholarship | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370), [URB 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/370) | | Ivan Y Chaar Lopez [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Ivan%20Chaar%20Lopez#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17374439/) Assistant professor | [AMS 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/310), [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | [Stephen H Marshall](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/shm242) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16291383/) Associate professor Political Theory · American Social and Political Thought · African-American political thought | [AMS 355](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/355), [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | **Show all 32 peopleDepartment of American Studies professors and instructors, continued** | Name | Teaches | | --- | --- | | Professors · 16 | | | [Julia L Mickenberg](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/jlm05150) [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Julia%20Mickenberg#lookup) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17374560/) Professor History of the Left/radical cultures · women’s history · history of childhood and children’s literature · Americans abroad | [AMS 356](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/356), [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | Caroline Sage Ponder [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17206820/) Assistant professor | [AMS 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/310), [AMS 398T](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/398t) | | Nic John Fajardo Ramos [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17371352/) Assistant professor | [AMS 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/310) | | [Shirley E Thompson](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sca/faculty/st1992) [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12842714/) Associate professor African American and African Diaspora Studies · Nineteenth Century US Cultural History · Law and Literature · Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | Lecturers and instructors · 3 | | | Thomas Mellins Lecturer | No classes listed this year | | Kristen Wilson [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Kristen%20Wilson#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/12640200/) Lecturer | [AMS 356](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/356), [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | Kayee Zhou Lecturer | No classes listed this year | | Graduate and other instructors · 13 | | | Rene Arteaga [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Rene%20Arteaga#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17374873/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Jeremy Boorum [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Jeremy%20Boorum#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16276971/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Julia Burgin [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Julia%20Burgin#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16287944/) | [AMS 341C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/341c) | | Ruth Castillo-Espinoza [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Ruth%20Castillo-Espinoza#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17374809/) | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | Stephanie Childress [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/14869780/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Lily Nagengast [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Lily%20Nagengast#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17367973/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Suzanne Nimoh [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Suzanne%20Nimoh#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17388088/) | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370), [URB 321M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/321m) | | Giulia Oprea [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/13871901/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Levina Parada [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/16279216/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | | Marina Smith [CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17359165/) | [AMS 315](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/315) | | Stephanie Zeller | [URB 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/340) | | Natalie Zelt [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Natalie%20Zelt#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17379662/) | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | | Crystal Zhao [Evaluations](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/professor-evaluations?q=Crystal%20Zhao#lookup)[CV](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/courses/nlogon/download/17248770/) | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | ## Who teaches each course **Department of American Studies: who teaches each course** | Course | Taught by | | --- | --- | | [AMS 310](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/310) | Lauren Jae Gutterman, Ivan Y Chaar Lopez, Caroline Sage Ponder, Nic John Fajardo Ramos | | [AMS 311S](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/311s) | Rene Arteaga, Jeremy Boorum, Stephanie Childress, Lily Nagengast, Giulia Oprea, Levina Parada, Crystal Zhao | | [AMS 315](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/315) | Marina Smith | | [AMS 341C](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/341c) | Julia Burgin | | [AMS 355](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/355) | Alex A Beasley, Stephen H Marshall | | [AMS 356](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/356) | Julia L Mickenberg, Kristen Wilson | | [AMS 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/370) | Lina Chhun, Cary Cordova, Randolph R Lewis, Ivan Y Chaar Lopez, Stephen H Marshall, Julia L Mickenberg, Shirley E Thompson, Kristen Wilson, Ruth Castillo-Espinoza, Suzanne Nimoh, Natalie Zelt | | [AMS 390](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/390) | Alex A Beasley | | [AMS 398T](https://utaustin.guide/courses/ams/398t) | Caroline Sage Ponder | | [L A 119](https://utaustin.guide/courses/l-a/119) | Steven D Hoelscher | | [LAH 102H](https://utaustin.guide/courses/lah/102h) | Steven D Hoelscher | | [URB 301](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/301) | Aabiya Noman Baqai | | [URB 315](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/315) | Aabiya Noman Baqai | | [URB 321M](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/321m) | Suzanne Nimoh | | [URB 322R](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/322r) | Aabiya Noman Baqai | | [URB 340](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/340) | Stephanie Zeller | | [URB 360](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/360) | Gregory P Anderson | | [URB 370](https://utaustin.guide/courses/urb/370) | Aabiya Noman Baqai, Randolph R Lewis | **Bachelor’s degrees 2 programs** - [American studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/american-studies) BA [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/liberal-arts/) - [Ethnic studies (Students majoring in ethnic studies concentrate in Asian American studies.)](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/liberal-arts/) BA **Master’s degrees 1 program** - [American studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/american-studies) MA [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/graduate/areas-of-study/liberal-arts) **Doctoral degrees 1 program** - [American studies](https://utaustin.guide/majors/american-studies) PhD [Catalog](https://catalog.utexas.edu/graduate/areas-of-study/liberal-arts) **Pay after graduation Up to $58,300Median pay after graduation by field** | Field of study | 1 year out | 4 years out | | --- | --- | --- | | Area Studies Master’s · American studies | $58,300 | — | | Area Studies Bachelor’s · American studies | $39,900 | $57,000 | Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs. **About the department** Department of American Studies is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are AMS and URB. **Sources UT catalog, HB 2504** UT’s catalog lists colleges, deans, departments, and degree programs. UT’s public course records list instructors and CVs by section. - [UT Austin undergraduate catalog 2026-2028](https://catalog.utexas.edu/undergraduate/colleges-schools/) - [UT Austin HB 2504 public course information](https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/student/coursedocs/nlogon/) [College of Liberal Arts](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/college-of-liberal-arts)[Every UT college](https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges)[Every UT course](https://utaustin.guide/courses) By [Sulayman Bowles](https://sulayman-bowles.dev/about) · Checked Nov 11, 2026 --- Source: https://utaustin.guide/ut/colleges/college-of-liberal-arts/department-of-american-studies · Checked 2026-11-11 · Field Guide: UT Austin