• Pal Ahluwalia
  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
  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, Chair
  Associate Professor, Ph.D. in History, UCB
  Native American History and Culture; Colonial Americas; Material Culture Studies; Indian-White Relations


• Adria L. Imada (on Leave, 2007-08)
  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: start date July 1, 2008
  Assistant Professor (Fall 2008); 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: start date July 1, 2008
  Assistant Professor (Fall 2008); 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
  
  
• Natalia Molina
  Associate Professor, Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan
  Public Health; Latina/o Studies; Gender Studies; Transnationalism


• Lisa Sun-Hee Park
  Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University
  Asian American Studies; Immigrant Communities; Immigrant Health Care and Welfare Policies; Immigrant Labor, Citizenship, and Globalization; Race, Class, and Gender
  
  
• David Pellow
  Professor, Ph.D. in Sociology, Northwestern University
  Race and Ethnic Relations, Environmental Justice Studies, Social Movements, Globalization


• 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
  
  
• Ana Celia Zentella
  Professor, Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
  Anthro-Political Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language Socialization, Latino Spanish and English Dialects

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