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Professor Michael Aaron Rockland founded the American Studies Department at Rutgers while serving as Assistant Dean of Douglass College (1969-1972). Earlier, he had another stint in academic administration when he served as Executive Assistant to the Chancellor of Higher Education, State of New Jersey (1968-1969). This followed years in the U.S. diplomatic service as a cultural attache at embassies in Argentina and Spain (1961-1968). His overseas experience has since included senior Fulbright...

Professor Louise Barnett received a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Bryn Mawr College (1972) and has been at Rutgers since 1976 as a member of the English Department, an associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a director of Study Abroad programs in Florence, Italy and Brighton, England, and a fellow of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis in 1998 and 2005. She joined the American Studies Department in 2005. During her academic career Professor Barnett has...