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Juana María Rodríguez 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
photo of Tadiwa Madenga Tadiwa Madenga
Dept of Comparative Literature
Dept of English
African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies
Mel Y Chen headshot 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
comicbook style portrait by j marshall smith: black nonbinary person with light skin, brown c3 hair, wearing white round eyeglasses Ianna Hawkins Owen
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies
Nadia Ellis seated on an easy chair looking at the camera Nadia Ellis
Dept of English
Black diaspora literature and culture, Caribbean, gender and sexuality
Eric Stanley 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
photo of Roshanak Kheshti Roshanak Kheshti
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
race, gender, queer theory, anthropology, sound studies, film, performance studies, diaspora, psychoanalysis
Jacob Gaboury Jacob Gaboury
Dept of Film and Media
media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology
Photo of Lawrence Cohen Lawrence Cohen
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
Karen Nakamura 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
headshot of Dora Silva Santana Dora Silva Santana
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology
Allan deSouza Al-An deSouza
Dept of Art Practice
photography, contemporary art, Art Pedagogy, performance, postcolonial studies, gender, queer, trans studies, contemporary African Art, South Asian Art, art of the Global South, global modernisms
Cori Hayden Cori Hayden
Dept of Anthropology
Latin America, Mexico, social and cultural anthropology, kinship, anthropology of science, technology, medicine, post-colonial science, gender, queer studies
A person with long wavy black hair sits facing forward Xandra Ibarra
Dept of Art Practice
performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance, race and sexual politics, feminist and queer theory, sex work, women of color feminisms, anti-colonial feminism, LGBTQ communities, queer/trans social movements, critical prison studies
headshot of Henry Washington Jr. Henry Washington Jr.
Dept of African American Studies
19th and 20th century African American literature, black intellectual histories, black feminist, queer, and trans theories, black critical theory, aesthetics and visual culture, performance studies
Photo of Paola Bacchetta, dark eyes, black shoulder length hair, brown skin. Paola Bacchetta
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
From I. L. Peretz's "Di toyte shtot" Roni Masel
Dept of Comparative Literature
Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory
Laura E. Pérez Laura E. Pérez
Dept of Ethnic Studies
Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities
Grace Lavery Grace Lavery
Dept of English
critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies
Faculty profile Salar Mameni
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
Photo by Diamela Cutiño Courtney Desiree Morris
Dept of Gender and Women's Studies
Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics
Andrew Leong Andrew Way Leong
Dept of English
19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies
headshot Nathaniel Wolfson
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets Poulomi Saha
Dept of English
Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
headshot of Leti Volpp Leti Volpp
School of Law
citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
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