Faculty
Temporary Faculty | Affiliate Faculty | Emeritus Faculty
The UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies faculty are nationally recognized leaders in the development of scholarship on race and ethnicity in the United States. To find out more about a selected faculty member's biography, areas of concentration, or an index of their publications and articles please click on their name below.
- Robert
R. Alvarez
Professor, Ph.D., Anthropology, Stanford University
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Ethnography; Transnational Markets and Entrepreneurs
- Kirstie Dorr
Assistant Professor (Fall 2009), Ph.D., Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Critical race and gender studies, transnational cultural studies, and political geography, Latin America and the Latino/a United States.
- Yen
Le Espiritu, Chair
Professor, Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Gender and migration;Race and U.S. militarism; Refugee studies;Asian American studies; Southeast Asian American Studies
- Ross
H. Frank
Associate Professor, Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley
Native American History and Culture; Colonial Americas; Material Culture Studies; Indian-White Relations
- Adria L. Imada
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., American Studies, New York University
Cultures & Theories of U.S. Imperialism; Pacific Island Studies; Performance, Visual Studies, Popular Culture
- Sara C. Kaplan
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Literatures and cultures of the African Diaspora; feminist and queer theory; comparative ethnic studies; critical race feminism; theories of performance and performativity.
- Roshanak Kheshti
Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Transnational feminisms and cultural anthropology, third world feminist theories, transnational queer theories, cross-cultural gender studies, sexuality, global popular culture
- Curtis Marez
Associate Professor, Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley
Latino/a studies, migration studies, and technology studies
- Gabriel Mendes
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., American Civilization, Brown University
African American Studies; History of Behavioral and Social Sciences; Critical Race Studies
- Natalia
Molina
Associate Professor, Ph.D., History, University of Michigan
Public Health; Latina/o Studies; Gender Studies; Transnationalism
- Denise
Ferreira da Silva
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Critical Race Theory, Global Historical Comparative Methods, Race Politics, Cultural Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Social Theory
- Kalindi Vora
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., History of Consciousness (Feminist Studies), University of California Santa Cruz
Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race and Gender Studies, South Asian Area and Diaspora Studies, Globalization, Marxist Theory, Cultural Studies
- K. Wayne Yang
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Social Movements
- Traci Voyles tvoyles@ucsd.edu
Associate in Ethnic Studies, Fall 2009
Courses:
Fall 2009 - ETHN 103 - Environmental Racism
Office Hours: Tuesdays,Thursdays 9:00am-10:30am or by appointment
- Ma Vang mvang@ucsd.edu
Associate in Ethnic Studies, Fall 2009, Spring 2010
Courses:
Fall 2009 - ETHN 20 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
Office Hours: wedensdays 1:30p-3:00p(SSB 250) Thursdays 11:30a-1:00p (CCC tranquility room)
- Ramon A. Gutierrez rgutierrez@ucsd.edu
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. in History from University of Wisconsin, Madison
Chicano History; Race and Ethnicity in American Life; Chicano/Latino Studies; Indian-White Relations in the Americas; Social and Economic History of the Southwest; Colonial Latin America; Mexican Immigration
- Ana
Celia Zentella
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Anthro-Political Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language Socialization, Latino Spanish and English Dialects
AFFILIATE FACULTY
In addition to the core faculty, faculty members from other UCSD academic departments, UC campuses and other regional Universities assist in teaching courses on race and ethnicity for our department. An index of affiliated faculty members is listed below:
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
