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Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American studies, critical SWANA studies, Iranian diaspora studies

Mel Y Chen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity

Dept of Ethnic Studies

indigenous studies, political economy, critical theory, political theory, media studies, social movements

Dept of Geography

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

Kourtney Kawano

School of Education

indigenous education and identity, critical race studies

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, nonlinear wave mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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

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

James K. B. Bishop

James K. B. Bishop

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

ocean carbon cycle dynamics, remote sensing, aquatic chemistry, marine biogeochemistry, land - ocean biogeochemistry, chemical oceanography, ocean sensors and autonomous observing systems, Carbon Explorer, Carbon Flux Explorer

Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets

Dept of English

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

Dept of Geography

critical cartography, artificial intelligence, media geographies, critical GIS and data studies, cultural memory and landscape, Indigenous mapping, settler-colonial studies, politics of representation - textualization - and visuality, digitalities

Brandi Catanese

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, African American theater, non-traditional casting, racial performativity, gender studies, sexuality studies, American popular culture

Dept of English

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

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Dept of Rhetoric

Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought

Debarati Sanyal

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

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

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Emma Fraser

Dept of Geography

digital culture, urban media, game studies, new media, critical theory

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, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, intersectionality, agriculture, environmental justice

John Chiang

Dept of Geography

climate change, climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, paleoclimate

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies

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Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, critical gerontology, feminist and queer theory, Science and Technology studies

Damon R. Young sitting in front of a window

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory