Mary Corbin Sies is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department and Co-Director (with Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson) of the Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group, and (with Dr. Christina Hanhardt) of the Cultural Landscapes Working Group. She is also an affiliate faculty member of the Women's Studies Department, the African American Studies Department, Program in Historic Preservation, the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, and the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture Graduate Certificate Program.
Areas of Interest
- Urban/Suburban History
- Space and Place
- Heritage and Preservation
- Education
Degrees
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Degree DetailsUniversity of Michigan; Ph.D. American Culture
Professor Sies' research and teaching interests span material culture studies, planning history, architectural history, urban/suburban history, historic preservation, and cultural and social history of the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is an authority on American suburbs from 1850 to the present, particularly planned, exclusive suburbs and the material and cultural landscapes, values, and everyday lifeways established by their upper-middle class white residents. She theorizes and studies issues of race, gender, class, space, and the domestic built environment and processes of community-building. Professor Sies promotes advocacy and social justice in her scholarship and her teaching. She also maintains an active interest in issues of professionalization and graduate study; please visit her Academic Job Resources Page at www.unlockingacademia.wordpress.com.
Current Students
Former Students
African American Studies Department
Phone
Email
sies [at] umd.edu
