The Center of the American West is housed on the University of Colorado campus. The faculty here represents the cream of the crop when it comes to work on Western issues and we have recruited a number of them as faculty affiliates and faculty council members. As you can see, they reflect the interdisciplinary nature of our work. We feature professors from the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, the History Department, the Biology Department, the Law School, the Ethnic Studies Department, the Environmental Studies Department, and more. Take a look. We are proud of our associations.
Faculty Council

Bud Coleman
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Arts & Sciences

Greg Johnson
Department of Religious Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Sarah Krakoff
Schaden Chair for Experiential Learning
University of Colorado Law School

Patty Limerick
Faculty Director • Chair of the Board • Professor • Department of History • Campus Partner in Academic Affairs at Veteran and Military Affairs Office
College of Arts & Sciences

Daryl Maeda
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Karen Ramirez
Assistant Director, MASP Co-Director, CU Dialogues Program
School of Education

JoAnn Silverstein
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

William Wei
Professor • Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Affiliates

Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz
Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
College of Arts & Sciences

Krister Andersson
Department of Political Science
College of Arts & Sciences

Thomas Andrews
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Douglas Bamforth
Director, Sewall Residential Academic Program • Department of Anthropology
College of Arts & Sciences

Nichole Barger
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
College of Arts & Sciences

Jody Beck
Department of Landscape Architecture
Environmental Design

Joanne Belknap
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Kenneth Bickers
Department of Political Science
College of Arts & Sciences

Daniel Boord
Critical Media Practices Creative Advisor
College of Media. Communications and Information

Michael Breed
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
College of Arts & Sciences

Shilo Brooks
Engineering Leadership Program
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Siobhan Brooks
Program in Environmental Design
Environmental Design

Cathy Cameron
Professor • Department of Anthropology • Boulder, CO
College of Arts & Sciences

Kristen Carpenter
University of Colorado Law School

Amanda Carrico
Environmental Studies Program
College of Arts & Sciences

Clint Carroll
Associate Professor • Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Sharon Collinge
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
College of Arts & Sciences

J. Andy Cowell
Department of French and Italian • Department of Linguistics
College of Arts & Sciences

Jackson Crawford
Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
College of Arts & Sciences

Deserai Crow
School of Public Affairs
College of Arts & Sciences

John Daily
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Annette de Stecher
Department of Art and Art History
College of Arts & Sciences

Lisa Dilling
Department of Environmental Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Jay Ellis
Program for Writing and Rhetoric

Michelle Ellsworth
Associate Director ATLAS Center for Arts, Media, and Performance • Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatre & Dance • College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Elizabeth Fenn
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Nicholas Flores
Chair • Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Shemin Ge
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

Myron Gutmann
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Benjamin Hale
Department of Philosophy
College of Arts & Sciences

Michael Hannigan
Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

John Harner
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Joel Hartter
Department of Environmental Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Cheryl Higashida
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

Jonathan Hughes
Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Peter Hunt
Department of Classics
College of Arts & Sciences

Taylor Jaworski
Department of Economics
College of Arts & Sciences

Stephen Graham Jones
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

Kathleen Kambic
Assistant Professor • Department of Landscape Architecture
University of New Mexico

Penelope Kelsey
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

Catherine Kunce
Program for Writing and Rhetoric

Paul Lander
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Sandra Laursen
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

Angelica Lawson
Department of Film Studies and Ethic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Steven Leigh
Department of Anthropology
College of Arts & Sciences

Steve Lekson
Department of Anthropology • Curator of Anthropology • University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
College of Arts & Sciences

Alan Lester
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

William M. Lewis, Jr.
Director • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Limnology

Peter McGraw
Leeds School of Business

Jeffry Mitton
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
College of Arts & Sciences

Brian Muller
Director • Urban Planning and Environmental Design
College of Architecture and Planning

Helmut Muller-Sievers
Director, Center for Humanities and the Arts
College of Arts & Sciences

Dimitri Nakassis
Department of Classics
College of Arts & Sciences

Jason Neff
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

David O. Norris
Integrative Physiology
College of Arts & Sciences

Tim Oakes
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Scott Ortman
Department of Anthropology
College of Arts & Sciences

Beth Osnes
Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatre & Dance

Joni Palmer
Adjunct Faculty • Department of Geography & Environmental Studies
University of New Mexico

Cecilia Pang
Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatre & Dance

Robert Pasnau
Director, Center for Western Civilization • Department of Philosophy
College of Arts & Sciences

John Pitlick
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Rob Pyatt
College of Architecture and Planning

Thomas Riis
College of Music

John-Michael Rivera
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

Brenda Romero
College of Music

Joseph Ryan
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
College of Engineering & Applied Sciences

Laurie Sampsel
Department of Musicology
College of Music

Richard Saxton
Art and Art History
College of Arts & Sciences

Jennifer Shannon
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History • Department of Cultural Anthropology • Department of Anthropology
College of Arts & Sciences

Hanna Rose Shell
Associate Professor • Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
College of Arts & Sciences

Robert E. Sievers
Professor • Director, Environmental Program University of Colorado • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry • Boulder, CO

Peter Simonson
Department of Communication
College of Media. Communications and Information

Seema Sohi
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Sven Steinmo
Department of Political Science
College of Arts & Sciences

Paul Strom
Kittredge Honors Program

Paul Sutter
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

William Taylor
Department of Anthropology
College of Arts & Sciences

Alexis Templeton
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

Sarah Thomas
Research Affiliate

Susan Thomas
Director American Music Research Center
College of Music

William Travis
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Leaf Van Boven
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
College of Arts & Sciences

Thomas Veblen
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Nicholas Villanueva
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Stephen Wagner
Department of Physics
College of Arts & Sciences

James White
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

Charles Wilkinson
University of Colorado Law School

Mark Williams
INSTAAR • Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

Richard Wobbekind
Leeds School of Business

Melanie Yazzie
Department of Art and Art History
College of Arts & Sciences

Phoebe Young
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Thomas Yulsman
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
College of Media. Communications and Information