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Faculty Directory
Kessie Alexandre
Research Interests: Political and environmental anthropology; Black studies and the African diaspora; urban ecology; environmental justice; climate change and society; science and technology studies
SCA Programs: Africana Studies and Program in Urban Studies
Awam Amkpa
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Research Interests: African diasporic drama and film; transnationalism; postcolonial theory
SCA Programs: Social & Cultural Analysis and Africana Studies
Cristina Beltrán
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary political theory; democratic theory; Latinx Studies/Latinx politics in the U.S.; African American political thought; feminist and queer theory; American political thought; U.S. conservative/right-wing politics; race and ethnicity; aesthetics and affect theory
SCA Programs: American Studies, Latino Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Renée Blake
Research Interests: Urban sociolinguistics; African American/Black language matters; language and cultures of the caribbean; language variation and change; morphosyntax; sociophonetics
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Lou Cornum
Research Interests: Critical Indigenous studies; Indigenous cultural studies; Native American literature and politics
SCA Programs: Social & Cultural Analysis
Arlene Dávila
Research Interests: Comparative ethnic studies; media and visual culture; urban studies and geographies of inequality; consumption and material culture; political economy; Latinx and Latin American studies
SCA Programs: Latino Studies, Program in Urban Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
David Dent
Research Interests: Journalism; race in American life
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, Latino Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Research Interests: Black art and cultural history; aesthetics; photography and documentary studies; art and activism
SCA Programs: Social & Cultural Analysis
Sophie L. Gonick
Research Interests: Urban studies; critical geography; immigration; social movements
SCA Programs: Program in Urban Studies and Social & Cultural Analysis
Gayatri Gopinath
Research Interests: Transnational queer and feminist studies; postcolonial studies; Asian diaspora studies; visual art; performance
SCA Programs: American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Pui Shan (Fiona) Hui
Research Interests: Cantonese heritage/non-heritage education; second language acquisition; voice pedagogy; Cantonese testing; rating; curriculum; and assessment design
SCA Programs: Social & Cultural Analysis
Kimberley Johnson
Research Interests: American political development; Urban and metropolitan politics; race and ethnic politics
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Program in Urban Studies
Julie Livingston
Research Interests: The body; southern Africa; interspecies; gender; development; economic growth/degrowth; public health; ecology
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mina Magda
Research Interests: Black cultural studies and visual histories; African diasporas in Russia and the Soviet Union; coloniality; gender and labor; aesthetic economies; literary studies
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Jennifer L. Morgan
Research Interests: History of the Black Atlantic world; comparative slavery; gender and sexuality studies
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Robert Reid-Pharr
Research Interests: Race; gender and sexuality studies
SCA Programs: Social & Cultural Analysis
Andrew Ross
Research Interests: Labor and work; urban and suburban studies; intellectual history; social and political theory; ecology and technology; cultural studies
SCA Programs: American Studies, Program in Urban Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo
Research Interests: Latin American and Latinx Studies; Indigenous studies; colonization and comparative race in the Americas; globalization and immigrations studies; development studies and revolutionary thought; hemispheric literary and cultural studies
SCA Programs: American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latino Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
S.S. Sandhu
Research Interests: Toil; avant pulp; Asiatica; off-kilter Englishness; artists' books; topographics; listening; the cinematical; migrant aesthetics; poetics and sociology of sport; Sweden.
SCA Programs: American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Program in Urban Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Nikhil Pal Singh
Research Interests: Race, empire, and culture in 20th-century U.S.; Black radicalism and US liberalism; U.S. foreign policy.
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Thomas J. Sugrue
Research Interests: 20th century U.S. history; race; cities and suburbs; public policy; civil rights; politics
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, and Program in Urban Studies
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Research Interests: War and ecology; refugee and migration studies; visual and popular culture studies; transpacific and Asian/American studies
SCA Programs: American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Deborah Willis
Research Interests: Visual culture; photography
SCA Programs: Africana Studies, American Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis
Caitlin Zaloom
Research Interests: Culture and economy; financialization; care work; technology; urbanism
SCA Programs: American Studies, Program in Urban Studies, and Social & Cultural Analysis