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Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations, North America, Northern California, Caribbean, Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community

Dr. Worrell with CAL Prep Students

Frank C. Worrell

School of Education

development, education, cognition, academic talent development, adolescence, African American, at-risk youth, English-speaking Caribbean, ethnic identity, gifted, psychosocial development, racial identity, school psychology, teacher effectiveness, Trinidad and Tobago, time perspective

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant epigenetics, cell identity

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john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Dept of Sociology

genocide, Ethnic Conflict, religion

Omar Wasow

Dept of Political Science

American politics, race and ethnic politics

David Montejano

David Montejano

Dept of Ethnic Studies

social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations

Hertha D. Sweet Wong

Hertha D. Sweet Wong

Dept of English

American literature, Native American literature, autobiography, ethnic American literature

C. Greig Crysler

C. Greig Crysler

Dept of Architecture

architecture, geopolitics of architectural discourse, globalization and social production of the built environment, architecture and identity

Martin Sánchez-Jankowski

Martín Sánchez-Jankowski

Dept of Sociology

crime, sociology of poverty, sociology of violence, race and ethnic relations

Leti Volpp

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

Cybelle Fox

Dept of Sociology

historical sociology, American welfare state, race and ethnic relations, immigration policy

Stephanie Zonszein

Dept of Political Science

immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior

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

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Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

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Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Serena Chen

Dept of Psychology

Self and identity, close relationships, social cognition, social psychology, relational self, collective self, social power, hierarchy, status

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Ramón Grosfoguel

Ramón Grosfoguel

Dept of Ethnic Studies

global cities, international migration, ethnic studies, race/ethnicity, latino studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, international comparative development, political-economy of the world-systems, urban sociology

Dept of Political Science

political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research

Mahasin Mujahid

Mahasin Mujahid

School of Public Health

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

Julian Chun-Chung

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

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism