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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Leti Volpp

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

David Card

Dept of Economics

education, immigration, unemployment, inequality, race and gender, program evaluation

A head shot of me smiling in the English Department lecture room in Wheeler Hall.

Dept of English

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, British and American Modernism, Virginia Woolf, race and gender

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Chicanix history, gender, oral history, race and empire

Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

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

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant epigenetics, cell identity

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Lisa Garcia Bedolla

School of Education

Dept of Political Science

politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships

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

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

Dept of English

18th century and Romantic British literature, Milton, literature and the history of science, especially medicine

Keynote Address Region Nine Head Start Association Family Engagement and Cultural Effectiveness Conference, Kona, HI.

Travis J. Bristol

Dept of African American Studies

School of Education

race and gender, urban schooling, organizational contexts of teachers' work, educational equity, African American students in schools

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

Dept of Ethnic Studies

indigenous studies, Indigenous law and humanities, Indigenous feminisms, transnational Indigenous studies, comparative race and gender, literature and culture

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 Linguistics

linguistics, phonological theory, typology, African languages, the Niger-Congo family, especially the comparative and historical study of the Bantu language family

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

Nicole Holliday sitting in front of book shelves

Nicole Holliday

Dept of Linguistics

sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, issues of language and identity, language and media, African American English

Hunter Rendleman

Dept of Political Science

American political institutions, political behavior, identity politics, organizations, group dynamics

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

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Catherine Ceniza Choy

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American history, Filipino American studies, race and gender, migration, nursing history, adoption studies, public impact research/scholarship, social justice research

Dept of Architecture

architecture, Philippines, race and empire, United States history, race and ethnicity

Gary Karpen

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

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

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