Faculty

Temporary Faculty | Affiliate Faculty | Emeritus Faculty

LADDER-RANK 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.

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  • 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

TEMPORARY FACULTY

  • 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

EMERITUS FACULTY

  • 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:

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

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