The Center of the American West is housed on the University of Colorado campus, on which the faculty is represented across an interdisciplinary breadth, including 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. We are proud of our associations that reflect on pressing Western issues.
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
Professor Emeritus • Critical Media Practices Creative Advisor
College of Media. Communications and Information

Michael Breed
Professor Emeritus • Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
College of Arts & Sciences

Siobhan Brooks
Instructor • Program in Environmental Design
Environmental Design

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

Bud Coleman
Department of Theatre and Dance
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

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

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

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

Penelope Kelsey
Instructor at CU • Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

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

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

Alan Lester
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences

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

Daryl Maeda
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Peter McGraw
Professor CU Boulder • Founder The Humor Research Lab • March 8, 2017
Leeds School of Business

Jeffry Mitton
Professor Emeritus • 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

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
Professor Emeritus • Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

Rob Pyatt
College of Architecture and Planning

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

Thomas Riis
Professor Emeritus
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

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

Seema Sohi
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

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

Thomas Veblen
Professor Emeritus • 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

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

Charles Wilkinson
Professor Emeritus
University of Colorado Law School

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