Faculty
 I specialize in the history, development, and cultural significance of cities, with particular attention to the intersecting formations of space, race, and memory in urban contexts. I received my Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California in 2008; my dissertation, “Home Is Little Tokyo”: Race, Community, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, examines the spatial and memorial practices through which the state and racialized communities together, though with unequal access to power and resources, produced ethnoracially-inscribed spaces such as ghettos, barrios, and ethnic enclaves in the (post)industrial American city. In harmony with Portland State University’s mission to support critical research in sustainability, my next project will explore conjunctions between land use practices and technologies of memory that em-place and re-present historical moments of exclusion, oppression, or violence. I am thrilled to join the accomplished faculty of the University Honors program. The opportunity to work with talented students in a learning community progressing through a rigorous four-year curriculum provides me with the ideal academic environment in which to pursue excellence in both my teaching and research. In addition, the dynamic urban context of Portland and the expertise of PSU’s Urban Studies faculty support my growth as an urban scholar. - Hillary Jenks, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
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- Michael Flower, Professor of Interdisciplinary Science Studies
Research interests: original training and research/teaching in developmental and molecular biology; political, moral, social and economic understandings of natural science; science education reform
Phone: 503-725-5362
flowerm@pdx.edu - Hillary Jenks, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences
Research interests: urban history; theories of race and ethnicity; architecture
Phone: 503-725-9857
hjenks@pdx.edu - Kathleen Merrow, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Social Sciences
Research interests: modern European intellectual history—France and Germany; Rhetoric and Politics: Nietzsche Rewriting the History of Modernity; history of rhetoric
Phone: 503-725-5365
merrowk@pdx.edu - Lawrence Wheeler, Director, Professor of Humanities and Applied Linguistics
Research interests: history/theory of autobiography; comparative classical traditions; history/theory of writing systems; word/image studies
Phone: 503-725-4928
wheelerl@pdx.edu - William H. York, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities
Research interests: Medieval and early modern European science and medicine; history of the body; history of the family
Phone: 503-725-5215
why@pdx.edu
Ann Marie Fallon, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Humanities
Research interests: comparative literature; aesthetics; history of the novel; postcolonial theory
Phone: 503-725-9423
amfallon@pdx.edu
- Michael F. Reardon, Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities, Provost Emeritus
Staff
- Nora Quiros, Office Coordinator
Phone: 503-725-4928
nquiros@pdx.edu