Kourtney Kawano School of Education indigenous education and identity, critical race studies, social research methods, identity (especially race and gender), family issues, school/community partnerships
Patrice D. Douglass Dept of Gender and Women's Studies Black feminist theory, Afro-pessimism, feminist philosophy, gender and sexual violence, feminist legal theory, legal theory, political philosophy, Black political thought
Ricarda Hammer Dept of Sociology anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory
Michael Mascarenhas Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies
Laurent Reyes School of Social Welfare civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare
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
Keith Feldman Dept of Ethnic Studies critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities
Juan David Rubio Restrepo Dept of Music ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies
Poulomi Saha Dept of English Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
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
Shannon Steen 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
Debarati Sanyal Dept of French 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
Jake Kosek Dept of Geography cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics
Rizvana Bradley Dept of Film and Media aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media
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
Ida Yalzadeh Dept of Ethnic Studies Asian American studies, critical SWANA studies, Iranian diaspora studies
David Montejano Dept of Ethnic Studies social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
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
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
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
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
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