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Department

Dept of Ethnic Studies

education, memory, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American histories and communities, Southeast Asian diaspora, refugees, international migration, transnational and diaspora studies, genocide studies

Vasugi Kailasam

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Indonesia, South and Southeast Asian studies, literature and gender, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, orality and literacy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Peter B. Zinoman

Dept of History

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

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American studies, critical SWANA studies, Iranian diaspora studies

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Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

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

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

Japan, Korea, women's studies, gender studies, medicine, religion, colonialism, Asian diaspora

Jimmy A. McGuire

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

Lisandro Claudio

Lisandro Claudio

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Philippines, theories of liberalism, history and culture of Southeast Asia, austerity in the global south

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

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

Sugata Ray

Dept of History of Art

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

Dept of History

history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies

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Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

Dept of History of Art

Twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and architecture, global modernism, globalization, postwar art history, global art history, third world art, Global South, art and decolonization, Bandung, non-aligned movement, Cold War, atomic, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

Dan O'Neill

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian literatures and cinema, environmental humanities and media theory

Darlène Dubuisson

Dept of African American Studies

Apocalyptic anthropology, Black feminist theory, Black intellectual history, Caribbean Studies, Haitian diaspora, immigration and migration, transnationalism and diaspora, speculation, inequality and crisis, crises and futures, visual culture

Daena Funahashi

Daena Funahashi

Dept of Anthropology

political anthropology, democratic theory, critical theory, Crisis of Legitimacy, stress, Burnout, death, the uncanny, economy of excess, scientific authority, Nordic Welfare, Southeast Asia

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

migration, diaspora, Indigenous language revitalization, decolonization, race and language, qualitative methods, ethnography