People Directory

Name Job title Department Role Research interests
James Sun Student

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS)
Kristen Sun Alumni
Cheryl Suzack Ethnic Studies Faculty

Professor Suzack’s research employs interdisciplinary frameworks informed by race, gender, and sexuality studies to examine how Indigenous communities are located and politically contained through multi-levelled practices of gender and racialization. Her monograph, Indigenous Women’s Writing and...
Sonia Cristina Suárez Alumni
Thomas Swensen Assistant Professor Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University Alumni
Daphne Taylor-Garcia Assistant Professor Ethnic Studies Department at University of California San Diego Alumni
Ray Telles Associate Adjunct Professor Ethnic Studies Lecturer

Chicana/o + Latina/o + People of Color Film, Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker
Mihiri Tillakaratne Alumni
John Torok World Association of International Students Alumni
Robert Toyama Cataloging Coordinator Staff
Joshua Troncoso Assistant Professor Ethnic Studies Department at CSU San Jose Alumni
Winston Tseng Lecturer Ethnic Studies Lecturer
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani Continuing Lecturer Ethnic Studies Lecturer

AA & PI educational issues & Japanese American history
Wesley Ueunten Associate Professor Ethnic Studies/Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University Alumni
Khatharya Um Associate Dean, Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Faculty
  • Politics of memory and commemoration in post conflict communities
  • Transnationalism and diaspora
  • Asia, Asian American histories and communities, and Asian diasporas
  • Colonial and postcolonial studies
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Caroline Valverde Faculty Asian American Studies Department at UC Davis Alumni
Nicholas Vargas Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Faculty

My research is situated primarily in the social sciences with foci on ethnoracial classification, identification, and stratification. Most of my scholarship draws from nationally representative data

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Yolanda Venegas Lecturer Writing Program Department at UC Santa Cruz Alumni
Jennifer Vest Lecturer and Performing Artist Alumni
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez Professor Ethnic Studies Faculty

My first book, Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (2013),considers the convergences of modern military and touristic ideologies, cultures, and technologies of tourism and militarism. Securing Paradise was named the best book in cultural studies by...