Affiliated Faculty
Moradewun Adejunmobi (Professor) African American & African Studies – Multilingualism, translation, and intercultural communication in postcolonial societies; Literacy studies; African literature; African popular film and culture; Francophone studies
Marisol de la Cadeña (Professor) Anthropology – Indigeneities; Politics and the Political; Cultures of History and Memory; Science and Technology Studies (particularly the interface Science/Politics); World Anthropologies, Race Critical Theory; Anthropology of the State (Areas: Latin America: Andes and Central America)
Claire Cannon (Associate Professor) Human Ecology – environmental justice, gender inequality, and health disparities in urban, rural, and disaster contexts
Ryan Cartwright (Associate Professor) American Studies Program – Disability Studies; Cultural Studies; Queer & Crip History of Rural White Nonconformity
Maxine Craig (Professor) Sociology – Masculinities, sociology of the body, race, gender & class
Amanda Crump (Associate Professor) Plant Science – researches way to improve the uptake of agricultural technologies for marginalized groups and improve student and trainee learning through novel pedagogies
Corrie Decker (Professor) Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies – 20th century social and cultural history of East Africa, childhood and youth, education, gender and sexuality, colonialism, Islam, development.
Jessica Draughon Moret (Associate Clinical Professor) Nursing -- researches structural and independent factors contributing to women’s health disparities. Current projects examine the intersection of gender-based violence and HIV risk, including comorbidities of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and substance abuse.
Joseph Dumit (Professor) – Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) - PET scan brain imaging and what assumptions about brain anatomy, psychology, and human nature needed to be made in order to conduct experiments, and then how the images circulate through popular culture, courtrooms, and patients' lives; patient experiences, difficult to define illnesses, and the history of medicine
Paul Eastwick (Professor) Psychology – attraction and relationship formation; the mechanisms that help people to maintain and thrive in close relationships; the intersection of sex, sexuality, and gender with attraction and intimacy
Kathleen Frederickson (Associate Professor) English - Victorian literature and culture; feminist and queer studies; the history of biology, psychology, and the social sciences; Marxism; and psychoanalysis
Lorena Garcia (Professor) Public Health Sciences - Health disparities, in particular obesity and diabetes (metabolic and nutritional disorders), intimate partner violence (injuries), immigrant health and acculturation in the Latino community.
Talinn Grigor (Professor) Art and Architectural History – Late 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armeno-Iran, Armenia, and Parsi India
Laura Grindstaff (Professor) Sociology – Culture: cultural studies, popular culture, film and television, gender/race/class; Feminist Studies: gender, sexuality, race/class, media and popular culture, feminist theory
Noah Guynn (Professor) French & Comparative Literature – medieval and early modern French and comparative literatures, theatre, and culture; feminist and decolonial studies
Christoph Hanssmann (Associate Professor) Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies – feminist, queer and trans feminist health and justice, the politics of health, science and medicine, focusing on relationships between biomedicine and social movements
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor (Professor) History– 18th and 19th century American history; American women’s history; Social, business and economic history
Jule Hua (Professor) Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies – Ethnic studies, feminist critiques of anti-trafficking in the U.S., political organizing and reproductive labor, immigration.
Robert McKee Irwin (Professor, Herbert A. Young Fellow, Chair of Cultural Studies Graduate Group) Spanish & Portuguese – Mexican and Latin American Cultural Studies; Border Studies/Latino Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Mexican Golden Age Cinema; Sports Media Studies; Digital Storytelling, Community Based Scholarship
Beenash Jafri (Associate Professor) Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies – critical race and ethnic studies; relational theory and critique; settler colonialism and decolonization; queer studies (esp queer of color critique); Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; diasporic film and media; and representations of structural violence
Rana Jaleel (Associate Professor) Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies – Fields: critical transnational gender studies, law, Asian American studies, critical ethnic studies, queer/trans studies, and creative methodologies and hybrid writing. Topics: international law; militarisms; transnational social justice movements; sexual violence; war; labor; racial capitalism; transnational feminisms; reproductive justice
Ava L.J. Kim (Assistant Professor) Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies — Queer and trans studies, comparative race, 20th century literature and culture, anticolonial thought, Latin American studies, Asian American studies
Elisabeth Krimmer (Professor) German – Gender studies, History and representation of war, German literature 1800-2000, Hollywood film
Amina Mama (Professor) Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies - culture and subjectivity; politics and policy; women’s movements and militarism
Desirée Martín (Associate Professor) English – Mexico border studies; Chicano/a & Latino/a literature & culture; literature of the Americas; 19th & 20th-c. Mexican literature; performance art & theater; subaltern studies
Lisa Materson (Professor) History – American women's history, African American history, late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political history of the U.S., history of women's involvement in the movement for Puerto Rico's independence from the U. S.
Beth Rose Middleton Manning (Professor) Native American Studies Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools; intergenerational trauma and healing, rural environmental justice, indigenous analysis of climate change, Afro-indigeneity, and qualitative GIS
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (Professor) English - Feminist criticism and nineteenth-century literature, gender in film and fiction, environmental humanities, reproduction and reproductive labor
Susette Min (Associate Professor) Asian American Studies – Asian American Literature and Art; Ethnic American Literature; Contemporary art and visual culture
Kimberly Nettles-Barcelon (Associate Professor) African American and African Studies –Politics of race, gender, and food; issues of critical feminist pedagogy, intersectionality; ethnography, autoethnography, and narrative writing; consumption, authenticity, and culinary tourism; feminism and food; women entrepreneurs
Bettina Ng'weno (Professor) African American & African Studies – Cultural anthropology; States; Property; Race and ethnicity; Rural societies; Politics; Social justice; Equality; Law; Latin America and Africa
Ana Peluffo (Professor) Spanish & Portuguese – Latin American literatures and cultures with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th century; gender and ethnicity; literature and the nation; Andean and Southern Cone cultures; poetry and visual arts
Jessica Bissett Perea (Associate Professor) Native American Studies - music, sound and media studies; 20th and 21st century American music history; Indigenous aesthetics and philosophies; Alaska Native and Circumpolar Inuit cultures, histories, and politics; intertribal and intercultural alliances and cultural production; popular, folk, jazz and improvisational performance cultures; critical race and gender studies; research methodologies and critical pedagogy
Joanna Regulska (Vice Provost & Associate Chancellor) Global Affairs Division women’s agency, political activism, grass-roots mobilization and the construction of women’s political spaces.
Gloria M. Rodriguez (Professor) School of Education –School finance/resource allocation and educational leadership from a critical, social justice perspective; notions of educational investment that reflect efforts to build upon community strengths in order to address community needs within and beyond educational settings; educational conditions and trajectories of Chicana/o-Latina/o communities, other communities of color, and low- income populations in the U.S.
Clarissa Rojas (Associate Professor) Chicano/a Studies Dept. –Medical violence, medicalization and sociology of health; health and health policy; American Indian and Women of color feminisms; critical and comparative race studies, queer of color and two spirit studies; decolonial movements; border violence; and cultures and migration studies.
Eric Louis Russell (Professor; Director of the Davis Language Center) French & Italian - phonology, phonetics and issues of language in society, especially surrounding sexuality and gender; French and Dutch-based creole languages; same-sex marriage, adoption, IVF, gender inclusion) in Europe, with particular focus on cases in France, Italy, Germany and Belgium
José Manuel Santillana Blanco (Assistant Professor) American Studies – Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Feminist Studies; Environmental Justice; Latinx Chicanx Studies; Queer and Trans Studies; Jotería Studies; Geography
Suzana Sawyer (Professor) Anthropology – Struggles over resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon, focusing specifically on conflicts over land and petroleum development among forest peoples, the state, and multinational oil companies
Jocelyn Sharlet (Associate Professor) Comparative Literature – The uncertainty and flexibility of patronage as a form of social order; the development of professional status for poets as an alternative to ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic aspects of identity; portrayal of informal relationships in medieval Arabic poetry and stories
Kimberlee A. Shauman (Professor) Sociology – Social Stratification; Social Demography; Family, Kinship and Gender; Education
Smitri Srinivas (Professor) Anthropology –constructions of cultural identity and cases of spirit possession within the context of borderland political economy; understandings of "urban religion" as well as the relationship between a religious imaginary, understandings of citizenship, sites of sociality, and devotional memory; designs for utopian place-making from the early twentieth century to the present that link South Asia with Europe and North America
Michiko Suzuki (Professor) Japanese and Comparative Literature – early sexology including same-sex sexuality, sex difference, chastity, concepts of gendered ailments, and the influence of Western sexology in Japan; kimono, Japanese cinema, and women’s literature
Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Professor) Native American Studies – Contemporary and traditional Indigenous arts; Visual sovereignty, photography, video, multi-media installations and traditional Native American techniques
Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde (Associate Professor) Asian American Studies – Southeast Asian American history and contemporary issues, mixed race and gender theories, Fashionology, Aesthetics, Diaspora, and Transnationalism Studies
Heghnar Watenpaugh (Professor) Art History –Early modern and modern Islamic Art and Architectural History, urban history, theory of architectural preservation, and architecture and gender; issues of cultural heritage and controversies surrounding cultural property
Julie Wyman (Associate Professor) Cinema and Digital Media – gender and the body, notions of power, physicality, and gender categories; cultural and media constructions of health, weight, gender and body image
Ruben Zecena (Assistant Professor) -- English Latinx literature and culture, queer migration studies, queer of color critique, cinema and media studies, affect theory, transnational American studies
Suzy Zepeda (Associate Professor) Chicano/a Studies – Chicana/Latina decolonial feminisms, social justice, critical race and ethnic studies, U.S. women of color feminist theory, LGBTQI and queer of color studies, transnational visual culture, oral history, oral storytelling, and archival research, collaborative methodologies, cultural memory, historical narratives, and generational healing
Li Zhang (Professor) Anthropology – Urban studies (especially space-making, urban planning, and power dynamics); global middle-classes and consumption practices; mental health and well-being; selfhood and therapeutic processes; labor migration; postsocialism; critique of neoliberalism; East Asia (especially China)
FTR DE Emerita Faculty
Susan Taber Avila (Professor Emerita) Design
Beverly Bossler (Professor Emerita) History
Angie Chabram-Dernersesian (Professor Emerita) Chicano/a Studies
Allison Coudert (Professor Emerita) Religious Studies
Gail Finney (Professor Emerita) Comparative Literature and German
Yvette G. Flores (Professor Emerita) Chicana/o studies
Inés Hernández-Ávila (Professor Emerita) Native American Studies
Sunaina Maira (Professor Emerita) Asian American Studies
Juliana Schiesari (Professor Emerita) Comparative Literature and Italian