Teaching

Here are courses that I teach at Penn State Harrisburg. For syllabi, see http://www.personal.psu.edu/sjb2 (Best Viewed in FIREFOX)

GRADUATE:

American Studies Theory and Method
Problems in American Studies (Tradition and Heritage, Consumer Culture)
Material Culture and Folklife (Folk Art and Architecture, Foodways)
Topics in Folklore (Folklore and Aging, Narrative, Ritual and Festival, Roots Music)
Seminar (Death in America, American Future, Ethnicity and Immigration)
Topics in European History (Holocaust and Jewish Studies, Study Tour to Poland)
Public Heritage

UNDERGRADUATE:

Introduction to American Studies
Popular Culture and Folklife
Introduction to American Folklore
Expressions in the Humanities (World Folklore)
American Masculinities
Ethnic America
Industrial America
Jewish Studies
 

 

Walt Whitman Distinguished Chair in American Cultural Studies, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2006.

 Approaches to Cultural Studies

 Popular Culture

Visiting Professor, American Studies,  Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Summer 2005, 2006.

            Ethnic Cultures

            Consumer Culture

Visiting Professor,  Folklore and American Civilization, Harvard University, 1997-1998.

        Folklore in American Civilization,

        Ethnic History and Culture

Fulbright Professor of American Studies, Osaka University, Japan, 1996-1997.

        American History and Culture

        Material Culture

Visiting Distinguished Professor of American Studies, University of California at Davis, Summer 1991.

        American Folklife.