Affiliate Faculty
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Luis Alvarez,
History
Comparative race and ethnicity, popular culture, Chicana/o studies, Latina/o studies, African American studies, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transnationalism, resistance, identity and community formation, cultural theory
E-mail: l2alvarez@ucsd.edu
Patrick Anderson,
Communication
Performance studies and cultural studies; theater and dance, film, cultural studies, queer and gender studies, ethnic studies, political geography, psychoanalysis, and anthropology
E-mail: pwanderson@ucsd.edu
Website
John D. Blanco,
Literature
Filipino literature; nineteenth-century Latin American and Caribbean literature; anti-colonial thought
E-mail: jdblanco@ucsd.edu
Website
David Borgo,
Music
Jazz, ethnomusicology, Critical Studies and Experimental Practices (CS/EP)
E-mail: dborgo@ucsd.edu
Website
Robert Cancel,
Literature
Oral literature; modern African literature and film; Caribbean literature
E-mail: rcancel@ucsd.edu
Website
Dennis Childs,
Literature
African American literature and
culture; Black literary modernism
E-mail: drchilds@ucsd.edu
Wayne A. Cornelius,
Political Science
Comparative studies of the political economy of immigration and immigration policy in advanced industrial nations, Mexican politics, and U.S.-Mexican relations
E-mail: wcornelius@ucsd.edu
Website
Anthony Davis,
Music
African American music; the integration of improvised and notated expressive resources
E-mail: adavis@ucsd.edu
Website
Ricardo Dominguez,
Visual Arts
Co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater;co-Director of the THING, an ISP for artist and activist; former member of Critical Art Ensemble; member of the New York Zapatistas; performances, tactical media events, direct actions on the streets and around the world
E-mail: rrdominguez@ucsd.edu
Website
Gerald Doppelt,
Philosophy
Ethics and Social Justice
E-mail: gdoppelt@ucsd.edu
Website
Steven Epstein,
Sociology
Social Theory (classical and contemporary), sociology of medicine, sociology of science, social movements, sexuality, and lesbian/gay studies
E-mail: sepstein@ucsd.edu
Website
Steven Erie,
Political Science
Urban politics, public policy, ethnic/minority group politics, and American political development
E-mail: serie@ucsd.edu
Website
Ivan Evans,
Sociology
Power, culture, and social revolt; sociology of intellectuals
E-mail: ievans@ucsd.edu
Website
Camille Forbes,
Literature
Nineteenth-century African-American literature and culture; African-American performance; American literature; cultural studies
E-mail: cfforbes@ucsd.edu
Website
Takashi Fujitani,
History
Cultural history of modern and contemporary Japan, especially military culture, nationalism and the monarchy
E-mail: tfujitani@ucsd.edu
Website
Nadine George-Graves,
Theatre & Dance
African American studies, feminist studies, theatre history, and dance history
E-mail: ngeorge@ucsd.edu
Rosemary George,
Literature/Critical Gender Studies Program
Literature of the British Empire; literatures in global English; cultural studies; gender studies; diaspora cultures
E-mail: rmgeorge@ucsd.edu
Website
Nora Gordon,
Economics
Public economics, labor economics
E-mail: negordon@ucsd.edu
Website
David G. Gutiérrez,
History
Chicano movements; immigration history
E-mail: dggutierrez@ucsd.edu
Website
Michael Hardimon,
Philosophy
19th century German Philosophy, ethics, and social and political philosophy; development of ethical thought in German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, and its relevance for contemporary ethical theory; "normative meta-ethics"; applied and professional ethics and philosophical problems of race
E-mail: mhardimon@ucsd.edu
Website
Louis Hock
Visual Arts
Films, video tapes, media installations, public art practice
E-mail: lhock@ucsd.edu
Website
Jorge Huerta,
Theatre & Dance
Contemporary Chicano and US Latino theatre
E-mail: jhuerta@ucsd.edu
Website
Tomás Jiménez,
Sociology
Immigration, race, ethnicity, inequality, and assimilation
E-mail: tjimenez@ucsd.edu
Website
Sara Johnson,
Literature
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century anglophone, francophone and hispanophone Caribbean literature and theory; African-American literature; literature of the Americas; cultural studies of the African Diaspora
E-mail: sejohn@ucsd.edu
Website
Benetta Jules-Rosette,
Sociology
Ethnographic Film, sociology, semiotic studies of religious discourse, tourist art, and new technologies in Africa
E-mail: bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu
Website
Martha Lampland,
Sociology
Political economy, history, feminist theory, science studies, social theory, and the symbolic analysis of complex societies
E-mail: mlampland@ucsd.edu
James Lin,
Mathematics
Algebraic topology
E-mail: j2lin@ucsd.edu
Lisa Lowe,
Literature
Modern French, British, and American studies, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities
E-mail: lmlowe@ucsd.edu
Website
Cecil Lytle,
Music
Pianist; Black music studies, jazz, nineteenth century literature, improvisation, pro-seminar in piano; SONOR (faculty new music ensemble)
E-mail: clytle@ucsd.edu
Website
George Mariscal,
Literature
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish culture; Chicano/a studies; U.S. literature of the Viet Nam War
E-mail: gmariscal@ucsd.edu
Website
John Moore,
Linguistics
Spanish syntax, causative and restructuring constructions, lexical semantics, judgment types
E-mail: johnmoore@ucsd.edu
Website
Elizabeth Newsome,
Visual Arts
Ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including the Aztec, Olmec and Izapan cultures
E-mail: enewsome@ucsd.edu
Website
David Pedersen
Anthropology
Historical anthropology, modernity, capitalism, transnational migrant life; Latin America, USA, El Salvador, California
E-mail: dpedersen@ucsd.edu
Emily Roxworthy,
Theatre and Dance
Performance studies, race relations, interculturalism, and Asian American theatre
E-mail: eroxworthy@ucsd.edu
Rosaura Sánchez,
Literature
Nationalism, ethnicity, and politics; critical theory; cultural studies; Third World studies; gender studies
E-mail: rasanchez@ucsd.edu
Website
Gershon Shafir,
Sociology
Comparative-historical sociology, with emphases on nationalism, ethnicity, and citizenship rights
E-mail: gshafir@ucsd.edu
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Website 2
Nayan Shah,
History
Specializes in Asian American History; United States Cultural and Political History; Race and Sexual Politics
E-mail: nbshah@ucsd.edu
Website
Roberto Tejada,
Visual Arts
Visual arts criticism, photography history, curatorial practice; twentieth-century image-making from the perspective of interdisciplinary discourses in art history, Latin American and Latino studies, cultural and critical theory, the language arts, and visual culture analysis
E-mail: rtejada@ucsd.edu
Website
Olga Vásquez,
Communication
Education, Language and Ethnic Identity
E-mail: ovasquez@ucsd.edu
Website
Daniel Widener,
History
African American and Californian history; expressive culture, race and ethnicity and political radicalism
E-mail: dwidener@ucsd.edu
Lisa Yoneyama,
Literature
History and memory of war and colonialism, gender and militarism, and the cultural dimensions of transnationalism, neo-colonialism, and the Cold War and post-Cold War U.S. relations with Asia
E-mail: lyoneyama@ucsd.edu
Website
Elana Zilberg,
Communication
The borders between anthropology and cultural studies as they converge in debates about public culture, and Latino and Latin American studies as they intersect with developments in new critical area studies
E-mail: ezilberg@ucsd.edu
Website
Matthew Chen, Linguistics
Arend Lijphardt, Political Science
Ramón Eduardo Ruíz, History
Anthony Curiel, Theatre and Dance
Michael Meeker, Anthropology
Marta Sánchez, Literature
Claudio Fenner-Lopez, Communication/Visual Arts
Masao Miyoshi, Literature
Faustina Solís, Urban Studies and Planning
Edward Reynolds, History