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

Thomas Andrews
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Douglas Bamforth
Department of Anthropology
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

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

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

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

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

Stephen Graham Jones
Department of English
College of Arts & Sciences

Catherine Kunce
Program for Writing and Rhetoric

Paul Lander
Department of Geography
College of Arts & Sciences

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

Daryl Maeda
Department of Ethnic Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Cecilia Pang
Department of Theatre and Dance
Theatre & Dance

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

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

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

Phoebe Young
Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences