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Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

literary theory, South and Southeast Asian studies, Sanskrit literature, Indian epic studies, psychoanalytically oriented cultural studies

Sukanya Banerjee

Dept of English

19th century British, South Asian, critical theory, cultural studies, narrative and the novel

Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Jocelyne Guilbault

Dept of Music

power relations, global industrialization, labor practices, work ethics in Caribbean popular musics, diaspora, cultural entrepreneurship

Keith Feldman

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Poulomi Saha

Dept of English

Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults

Leti Volpp

School of Law

citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies

Peter Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

Jimmy A. McGuire

Dept of Integrative Biology

historical biogeography, evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia, population genetics, hummingbirds, functional morphology, vertebrate systematics, phylogenetic analysis, life history evolution, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Donna Jones

Dept of English

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Robert Sharf

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, Marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

AnnaLee Saxenian

School of Information

innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research

Minoo Moallem

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Transnational and Postcolonial Feminist Studies, cultural studies, Commodity Cultures, Visual and Material Cultures of Religion, Immigration and Diaspora Studies, Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies

Vernadette Gonzalez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literacy and cultural studies, culture of U.S. Imperialism, gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American studies, transnational American studies

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Al-An deSouza

Dept of Art Practice

photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Andrew Way Leong

Dept of English

19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

Dora Zhang

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature

Michael Nylan

Dept of History

gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Hidetaka Hirota

Dept of History

US immigration history, American immigration law and policy, Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 19th century United States, Asian American history, U.S. and the world, Global Migration, Transnational History

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