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.
- Pal Ahluwalia (on leave 2008-09)
Professor, Ph.D., Flinders University of South Australia
African Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Postcolonial Studies
- Robert
R. Alvarez
Professor, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Stanford
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Ethnography; Transnational Markets and Entrepreneurs - Yen
Le Espiritu, Chair
Professor, Ph.D. in Sociology, UCLA
Gender and migration;Race and U.S. militarism; Refugee studies;Asian American studies; Southeast Asian American studies - Ross
H. Frank
Associate Professor, Ph.D. in History, UCB
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
- 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. in History, University of Michigan
Public Health; Latina/o Studies; Gender Studies; Transnationalism - Lisa
E. Sanchez
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society, UCI
Transnational and Global Studies; Gender, Race, Ethnicity and the Law; Sexuality and Culture
- Denise
Ferreira da Silva
Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Critical Race Theory, Global Historical Comparative Methods, Race Politics, Cultural Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Social Theory
- K. Wayne Yang
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UC-Berkeley
Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Social Movements
- Sharon Elise
Visiting Professor
Courses: Spring 2009: (proposed) ETHN 101
Spring 2009 Office Hours: TBA - Harrod Suarez
Lecturer
Courses:
Fall 2008 - ETHN 129 x USP 135 - Asian and Latina Immigrant Workers in the Global Economy
Winter 2009 - ETHN 127 x CGS 112 - Sexuality and Nation
Spring 2009 - ETHN 121 - Contemporary Asian-American History
Office Hours: TBA
- Thuy Vo Dang
Lecturer
Courses:
Fall 2008 - (proposed) ETHN 20 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
Winter 2009 - (proposed) ETHN 126 - Comparative Filipino and Vietnames American Identities and Communities
Spring 2009 - (proposed) - ETHN 122 - Asian-American Culture and Identity
Office Hours: TBA
- 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 EmeritusPh.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