Faculty
Core faculty
- Tom Biolsi, Professor
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Native American Studies
Research interests: Native Americans and other indigenous peoples; political economy; race-making and racisms - Catherine Ceniza Choy, Associate Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Asian American history, Philippine and Filipino American studies, contemporary U.S. immigration, and nursing history - Keith P. Feldman, Assistant Professor
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Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies; Theories of Race and Ethnicity; Cultures of the African, Arab, and Jewish Diasporas; 19th and 20th century U.S. Popular Culture; U.S. in the World; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Theory; Public Humanities - Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Comparative historical studies of race, gender and class and their intersections in relation to immigration, labor markets, and citizenship. Uncovering the connections among social structure, cultural discourse, and everyday experience. - Ramón Grosfoguel, Associate Professor
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Chicano/Latino Studies
- Elaine H. Kim, Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Asian American literary and cultural studies, Korean American Studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist Studies - Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Associate Professor
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Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Comparative critical and decolonial theorizing, theories of race and ethnicity, decolonial feminism, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy. - Beatriz Manz, Professor
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Chicano/Latino Studies
- David Montejano, Associate Professor
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Chicano/Latino Studies
Research interests: Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Social Change; Development; Race and Ethnic Relations; Community Studies; Ethnographic and Historical Methods - Michael Omi, Associate Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Racial theory and politics, racial/ethnic classification and the census, Asians Americans and racial stratification, and racist and anti-racist social movements. - Laura Elisa Pérez, Associate Professor
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Chicano/Latino Studies
- Beth H. Piatote, Assistant Professor
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Native American Studies
Research interests: Native American literature, history, law and culture; Native American/Aboriginal literature and federal Indian law in the United States and Canada; American literature and cultural studies; Ni:mi:pu: (Nez Perce) language and literature - José David Saldívar, Professor, Departments of Ethnic Studies and English
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Chicano/Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Literary history of the US ethnic novel; Trans-American literatures and cultural criticism; Cultural Studies; Chicano/a Literary Studies; Latin American literatures and criticism; Post-colonial analysis - Alex M. Saragoza, Associate Professor
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Chicano/Latino Studies
Research interests: Historical interface between processes of racialization and inequity in Latin America, especially Mexico and Cuba, and their intersections with immigration to the USA - Khatharya Um, Associate Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Studies, refugee migration, transnational and diaspora studies, post-colonial, conflict and post conflict studies and genocide studies, access and education of racialized minorities in American public schools - Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Professor
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Anglophone and Sinophone Chinese American literatures; the Chinese diaspora; immigrant writing and film; transnational reception studies. Asian American literature: transnationality, globalization, and mobility; gender and sexuality; canon formation
Emeritus faculty
- Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus
- Patricia Penn Hilden, Professor Emerita
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Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Native American history; the history of racialized communities in the U.S.; representation of racialized “others” in museums, exhibitions, travel writing; race, space, and gender in carceral institutions in the U.S. - Carlos Munoz, Jr., Professor Emeritus
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Chicano/Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies
Research interests: Social and Revolutionary Movements, African Presence in Mexico, U.S. Racial/Ethnic Politics - Ling-Chi Wang, Associate Professor Emeritus
Lecturers
- Anna Leong, Lecturer
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Asian American Studies
Research interests: Writing instruction, Asian American literature, Ethnic American literature - J. Diane Pearson, Lecturer
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Native American Studies
Research interests: Peoplehood, indigeneity, survival and revised post-colonial histories guide my critical contributions to Native American Studies as a core discipline essential to the study of North America. - Celia Rodriguez, Lecturer
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Chicano/Latino Studies
- JoEllen Shively, Lecturer
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Native American Studies
Research interests: Tribal Histories, Native American Film & Literature, Contemporary Native Americans, Sociology of Culture