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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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

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Nadia Ellis

Dept of English

Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality

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

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American studies, critical SWANA studies, Iranian diaspora studies

Patricia Baquedano-López

Patricia Baquedano-López

School of Education

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

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

photo of Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

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Roshanak Kheshti

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis

Jocelyne Guilbault

Jocelyne Guilbault

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

Steven Lee

Dept of English

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

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

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

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

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

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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

School of Journalism

incarceration, race, Haiti, imprisonment, prisons and policing, prisons, mental illness, mental health, juvenile delinquency

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, cosmogenic nuclide, alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts, magnetism, Martian meteorites, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Mark Haiman

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, algebraic geometry, algebra, combinatorics, diagonal coinvariants, Hilbert schemes