James Porter Dept of Rhetoric Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought
Youjin Chung Dept of Energy & Resources Group Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management political economy of development, historical and feminist political ecology, critical food and agrarian studies, Science and Technology studies, feminist theory, African studies, Tanzania, critical ethnography, participatory research
Christian Paiz Dept of Ethnic Studies comparative Latino studies, United States history, social movement history, historical methods
Junko Habu Dept of Anthropology Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers
David Montejano Dept of Ethnic Studies social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations
AnnaLee Saxenian School of Information innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development
Karen Nakamura Dept of Anthropology disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Darian Longmire Dept of Art Practice mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art
Andrew Barshay Dept of History social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Akash Kumar Dept of Italian Studies medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities
Debarati Sanyal Dept of French Border studies, race, postcolonialism, politics of aesthetic form, nineteenth-century French studies, memory studies, World War Two, Holocaust studies, critical refugee studies, contemporary fiction and film
Jeroen Dewulf Dept of German folklore, Dutch studies, transatlantic slavery, German literature, Portuguese Studies, post-colonial studies, hybridity
Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
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
Juana María Rodríguez Dept of Ethnic Studies race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work
William M Burton Dept of French French literature, gender, sexuality, intellectual history, translation studies, Quebec studies, feminism
Ahmad Diab Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema
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
Eric A. Stanley Dept of Gender and Women's Studies critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory
J. Theodore Peña Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies Roman archaeology, Roman and pre-Roman Italy, city of Rome, Pompeii, ancient economy, ceramic analysis, material culture studies
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