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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

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

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

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

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

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Xandra Ibarra

Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance

Lawrence Cohen

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, critical gerontology, lesbian and gay studies, feminist and queer theory

Minoo Moallem

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

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

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

Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias

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

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

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

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Ianna Hawkins Owen

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

African American studies, African diaspora, queer studies

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

Kathryn Abrams

School of Law

law, feminist jurisprudence, voting rights, constitutional law

Ricarda Hammer

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

Deniz Göktürk

Dept of German

German literature, German cinema, transnational cinemas, German-Turkish-European-American intersections in cinema, performance and spectatorship and reception, intertextuality and intermediality and translation, the politics and poetics of migration and globalization, urban imaginaries and mediations of place, theories of diversity and nationalism, comedy and community, modern rituals of regulating identity and authority and mobility

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Elizabeth Abel

Dept of English

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

Lilla Balint

Dept of German

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Youjin Chung

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

Roshanak Kheshti

Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

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

Roni Masel

Dept of Comparative Literature

Hebrew literature, Yiddish literature, Jewish history, queer theory, postcolonial theory

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

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