Current graduate students
- Geline Avila
- Research interests: Imperialism, Filipino Immigrants, Racialization, Political Movements
- Jason Chang
- Research interests: Transnational History, Comparative Racial Formations, Diasporic Ties between the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands and the Pacific Rim.
- Christopher Chua
- Research interests: Asian American Religion, Transnationalism, Diaspora, Community-formation
- John J. Dougherty
- Research interests: Native American Studies, Comparative Racialization, Critical Race and Legal Theory, Environmental Racism and Justice, American History, Pacific Northwest
- Yomaira Catherine Figueroa
- Research interests: Literature, Diaspora, Language, Art, Decolonial Feminisms
- Annie Fukushima
- Research interests: Human Trafficking, Asia-Pacific, Transnational Feminisms, Gender & Migration, Visual Culture
- Melanie Gadener
- Research interests: Afghanistan, Ethnography, Immigration, Ethnicity, Post-9/11 Empire Building
- Jordan Beltran Gonzales
- Research interests: History and Narrativity of the Philippines and the U.S., Oral Histories as Counter-stories, Bataan Death March Memorials, Equity for Filipino Veteranos
- Jorge Manuel Gonzalez
- Research interests: Chicano/a Literature, Decolonial Theory, Xicana Feminist Thought, Critical Theory
- Alma Granado
- Research interests: Chicana/o Literature, Chicana Feminism, Psychoanalytic Theory, Immigration, Borderland Theory
- Mattie M. Harper
- Research interests: Native American History, Indigenous Methodologies, Interracial Marriage and Kinship Networks, 19th Century Ojibwe History, Indigenous Transnationalism
- Jennifer Bao Yu "Precious Jade" Jue-Steuck
- Research interests: Social Capital, Transnational Adoption Studies, Ethnic Studies, Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, Contemporary Global Children's Literature.
- Jason U. Kim
- Research interests: History of Science and Technology, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Domestic Work and Life, Critical Theory, Intersectionality of Race-Gender-Class, Intimacies of Oppression
- Celia Lacayo
- Research interests: Race, Immigration, Citizenship
- Leece M. Lee
- Research interests: Genocide and Imperialism, Women of Color Feminism, Native American Women and Communities
- Janey Lew
- Research interests: Asian North American studies; Native North American studies; comparative Ethnic Studies; Canada/US studies; literary theory; cultural studies
- Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
- Research interests: U.S. Women's History, Pacific Islands Studies, Tongan History, U.S. and Diasporic Queer Histories
- Agustín Palacios
- Research interests: Mestizaje, Indigeneity, Xicanism@, Zapatismo.
- David Ga'oupu Palaita (Vika)
- Research interests: Samoan/Pacific Islander Cultures, Race Relations, History, Space (Va), Cultural/community Politics, Samoan American Geographies
- Alejandro Wolbert Pérez
- Research interests: Xican@ Cultural Studies, Popular Musics, Fronteriz@ Embodiments
- Craig Santos Perez
- Research interests: Indigenous Literature & Theory
- Eric J. Pido
- Research interests: Transnational Urbanism, Filipino Migration, Space and Race
- Sara A. Ramírez
- Research interests: Chicana Literature, Women of Color Feminisms, Psychoanalytic Theory, Madness
- Jennifer A. Reimer
- Research interests: Contemporary American Literary and Cultural Studies
- Margaret Rhee
- Research interests: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Representation, Asian American Studies. Queer Studies. HIV/AIDS Education. Prison Industrial Complex. Participatory Action Research and Arts. Digital Divide. New Media Art. Women of Color Consciousness.
- Gabriela Erandi Rico
- Research interests: Mexico, Indigeneity, Performance, Tourism, Commodification, Decolonization
- Ananda Sattwa
- Research interests: Native American Philosophy, Spirituality, History of the Southeast
- Amy Fujiwara Shen
- Research interests: Transnationalism, Im/migration, Minor Languages & Literatures, Education, Gender Studies
- Marisol Silva
- Research interests: Chicana/o and Latina/o Literature and Culture, Feminisms of Color, Higher Education
- Thomas Michael Swensen
- Research interests: Literature and Aboriginality in regard to: Fine Art, Geography, Texts, Dramatic Literature, Theatre, Urban Studies, Film, Vinification, Architecture, Native Corporations, Indian Law, IRAs, the Bering, Food, Standard Bearers, Narrative.
- Michael Acfalle Gumataotao Tun'cap
- Research interests: Pacific Studies, Native Health, History, Social Movements
- Nicol U
- Research interests: Southeast Asian American Diaspora, Immigration, Gender, Youth Culture
- Julie Thi Underhill
- Research interests: Cham/Champa, Vietnam, War, Migration, Memory, Representation
- Angelina Villafane
- Research interests: Comparative Diasporan Women of Color Feminism
- Norene Rose Ybarra
- Research interests: Comparative Filipino- and Mexican-American Studies of Culture, Resistance, and Empire in the United Farm Worker Movement