• 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
  

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