FACULTY

Alberto López Pulido, Ph.D., Director and Professor of Ethnic Studies

Chicano/Latino Studies; Race, Religion, and Community; Ethnic Studies Theory and Methodology; and Chicano Religions.

Michelle M. Jacob, Ph.D., Ethnic Studies

Native American Studies; Race/Ethnicity; Gender; Health; and Medical Sociology.

Jesse Mills, Ph.D., Ethnic Studies

African America Studies; Urban Studies; Refugee Studies; Gender; and Sexuality.

Gail Perez, Ph.D., English

Chicana/Chicano Studies; Literature of U.S. Women of Color; Creative Writing; Multiethnic Literature; Community-based Learning.

Leeva Chung, Ph.D., Communication Studies

Asian-American Studies; Aging and Intergroup Perceptions; Ethnic Identity.

ADJUNCT FACULTY

Riley Alegre Munin, Lecturer

Jason Magabo Perez, Lecturer

Olivia Ruiz, Ph.D., Departamento de Estudios Culturales – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Mexico’s Northern and Southern Borders; Race; Gender; Class; Migration; and Risk

Noel Salunga, Lecturer

AFFILIATED FACULTY

Roy L. Brooks, J.D., Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law

Civil Rights Law and Policy, Employment Discrimination, and Critical Theory.

Jericho Brown, Ph.D., English

Contemporary poetry, African American poetry, domestic violence, gender and sexuality, popular music

Bahar Davary, Ph.D., Theology and Religious Studies

Orlando Espin, Ph.D., Theology and Religious Studies

Latino/a Catholicism and specifically popular religion. Latino/a Catholic theology. Afro-Latin religions (Santeria/Lukumi, Vodoun, Umbanda).

Kay Etheridge, Ph.D., Music

Michelle Madsen Camacho, Ph.D., Sociology

Economic development in rural Mexico; Gender, labor, and globalization; Identity and public health issues among Chicanas and Latinas; Multi-method research and pedagogical approaches; Community-Based Learning.

Evelyn Diaz Cruz, M.F.A., Theatre

Latina/o Theater; Theater of Diversity; Playwriting; Community Theater.

Esteban Del Río, Ph.D., Communication Studies

Media and Cultural Studies; Chicano Studies; Cultural Policy; Global/local Communication; Collective Memory/forgetting; Media Art Production.

Colin Fisher, Ph.D., History
Race, Class, Ethnicity, and the Environment.

Robert Fleming, MFA, Theater

Performance (Acting, Voice and Speech, Musical Theatre) and Contemporary and Global Theatre Studies.

Carlton Floyd, Ph.D., English

Twentieth-Century African-American Literatures and Cultures; Representations of racial mixture; Writing Research and Pedagogy; Discourse Analysis; Cultural Studies.

Michael Gonzalez, Ph.D., History

Chicano History; History of California; 19th Century America.

Michael Ichiyama, Ph.D., Psychology

Japanese-American internment experience; Minority status and ethnic group identity, Asian American psychology.

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, Ph.D., English

Asian American Literature; American Modernism.

Evelyn Kirkley, Ph.D., Theology and Religious Studies

New religious movements in the United States and the intersections of religion with gender, race/ethnicity, & sexual orientation

Judith Liu, Ph.D., Sociology

Race and Ethnic Relations; People's Republic of China; Gender; Asian American Issues; Education; Community Service-Learning

Belinda Lum, Ph.D., Sociology

Immigration, Labor Movements, Race & Ethnicity, Globalization, Asian American Studies, Public Sociology, Urban Sociology

Alejandro Meter, Ph.D., Languages and Literatures

Jewish Latin America; Migration and Exile; Post-Dictatorial Southern Cone

A. Rafik Mohamed, Ph.D., Sociology

Issues of Law and Inequality; African-American Studies; Race, Masculinity, and Resistance.

Alma Ortega, M.L.I.S., M.A., Copley Library

Library emphasis in History, Ethnic Studies, and Chicano/Latino Studies.

Atreyee Phukan, Ph.D., English

Expressions of cultural and racial “hybridity” in literatures of the Caribbean and South Asian diaspora.

Reyes Quezada, Ed.D., School of Education

Bilingual and Multicultural Education; Language Acquisition; Teacher’s Education; Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of Faculty of Color.

Thomas E. Reifer, Ph.D., Sociology

Social change,focus on race, ethnicity, class and gender inequalities,

& their intersection with militarism and issues of global war, peace & social justice,

Sandra Sgoutas-Emch, Ph.D., Psychology

David Shirk, Ph.D., Political Science

African American politics, Immigration, and Latino politics.

Mark Woods, Ph.D., Philosophy

Environmental justice, environmental philosophy, philosophical issue of war and peace, social and political philosophy, practical ethics

Sally Yard, Ph.D., Art