Core Faculty
Name	Title
Dina Al-Kassim	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor of Comparative Literature (gender and queer theory, global modernisms in Africa, Middle East and Europe, postcolonial critique, Arabic, anglophone and francophone literature)
Jonathan Alexander	PhD, Louisiana State University Chancellor's Fellow and Professor of English (writing studies, hetoric/composition, sexuality studies, science fiction studies)
Christine Balance	Ph.D. New York University, Assistant Professor Asian American Studies (Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, performance studies, queer/feminist theory, and U.S. popular culture)
Tom Boellstorff	Ph.D. Stanford University Professor of Anthropology (virtual worlds, sexuality, postcoloniality, HIV/AIDS, mass media and popular culture, language and culture, Indonesia, Southeast Asia)
Chungmoo Choi	Ph.D. Indiana University Associate Professor of Korean Culture (modern Korea; post-colonial and colonial discourse; popular cultures and anthropology)
Bridget R. Cooks	Ph.D. University of RochesterAssistant Professor African American Studies, Art History (African American art and culture, Black visual culture, museum criticism, film, feminist theory and postcolonial theory)
Sohail Daulatzai	Ph.D University of Southern California Assistant Professor of African American Studies and of Film and Media Studies (Black internationalism, Muslim diasporas, race, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, cultural politics of popular culture)
David Theo Goldberg	Ph.D. City University of New York Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute & Professor of Comparative Literature & of Criminology, Law & Society (race, racism, race and the law, political theory, critical theory, South Africa)
Sora Han	Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society (law and popular culture, critical race theory, philosophies of punishment, feminism and psychoanalysis)
Douglas M. Haynes	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Director of the ADVANCE Program for Faculty and Diversity and Associate Professor of History (social and cultural history of modern Britain, social history of modern medicine)
Winston A. James	Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London Professor of History (Caribbean, African-American and African diaspora)
Victoria Johnson	Ph.D. University of Southern California Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies and of African American Studies (critical/cultural history of U.S. TV and film, critical race theory, sound and music in film/TV, branding and identity)
Adriana M. Johnson	Ph.D. Duke University Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (Latin American literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America, cultural and postcolonial studies)
Laura Hyun Yi Kang	Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz Chair and Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and English (feminist epistemologies and theories, cultural studies, ethnic studies)
Ketu H. Katrak	Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College Professor of Humanities, Affiliated to the Departments of English and Comparative Literature (diaspora studies, postcolonial literature, South Asian American cultural expressions)
Arlene Keizer	Ph.D. UC Berkeley, Director, Culture and Theory Ph.D. Program, Associate Professor of English and African American Studies (African American and Caribbean literature, critical race studies, feminist and psychoanalytic theory, cultural studies)
James Kyung-Jin Lee	Ph.D. UCLA, Associate Professor Asian American Studies and English (Asian American literature and culture, contemporary US literature, race and ethnic studies, urban studies, religious studies)
Mark LeVine	Ph.D. New York University Professor of History (modern Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, histories of empire and globalization)
Lilith Mahmud	Ph.D. Harvard University Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and of Anthropology (elites; race and nationalism; cultural capital; secrecy and conspiracy; feminist ethnography; critical studies of Europe)
Glen Mimura	Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and Asian American Studies (minority, diasporic and Third cinemas; race, sexuality and popular culture)
Yong Soon Min	M.F.A. University of California, Berkeley Professor of Studio Art (inter-media, migration, cultural studies)
Michael Montoya	Ph.D. Stanford University Assistant Professor in Anthro. & Chicano/Latino Studies (social inequality & health; race & ethnicity; social & cultural studies of science, tech., & medicine; the participation of ethnic populations in biomed. research)
Rachel O'Toole	Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assistant Professor of History (Colonial Latin America, African Diaspora, colonialisms, race, racism, indigenous histories, Atlantic worlds)
Kevin Olson	Ph.D. Northwestern University Associate Professor of Political Science (Contemporary European Political Theory, Cultural Politics, Politics of Diversity, Popular Sovereignty, Citizenship, 19th and 20th Century Political Theory)
Kavita Philip	Ph.D. Cornell University Associate Professor of Women’s Studies (science and technology studies, South Asian studies, political ecology, critical studies of race, gender, colonialism, new media, and globalization)
R. Radhakrishnan	Ph.D. State University of New York, Binghamton Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature (postcoloniality, nationalisms and diasporas, poststructuralism, postmodernism, globalization and transnationalism)
Kaushik Sunder Rajan	Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Anthropology (biotechnology, capitalism, comparative ethnography, genomics, globalization, nation-state, political economy, post-colonialism, science and technology studies)
Connie J. Samaras	M.F.A. Eastern Michigan University Professor of Studio Art (photography, contemporary visual art, gender studies, culture and technology)
Jeanne Scheper	Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies (feminist performance studies and visual culture, cultural studies, theories of race, gender and sexuality, trans-atlantic modernism)
Gabriele Schwab	Ph.D. University of KonstanzUCI Chancellor’s Professor of Comparative Literature (modern literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis, comparative literature)
Jared Sexton	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Associate Professor of African American Studies and of Film and Media Studies (race & sexuality, policing & imprisonment, contemporary U.S. cinema & political culture, multiracial coalition, critical theory)
John H. Smith	Ph.D. Princeton University Department Chair and Professor of German and Comparative Literature (eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and intellectual history, literary theory)
Rei Terada	Ph.D. Boston University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director, Critical Theory Emphasis (theory, history of philosophy, 19th and 20th century poetry, and romanticism)
Jennifer Terry	Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Women's Studies (cultural studies, social theory; science & technology studies, formations of gender & sexuality; American studies in transnational perspective)
Keith Topper	Ph.D. U.C.L.A., Associate Professor of Political Science (political and critical theory, poststructuralism, theories of power, language and politics, theory and politics of interpretation, politics of culture, philosophy of the social sciences)
Deborah R. Vargas	Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies (Chicana/Latina cultural production; cultural studies; queer studies; women of color feminisms, popular culture and music)
Roxanne Varzi	Ph.D. Columbia University Associate Professor or Anthropology (Islam, visual anthropology, anthropology of war, media, youth culture, religion and public space; Iran)
Linda Trinh Vo	Ph.D. University of California, San Diego UCI Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (Asian American communities, Asian American women, immigration and race relations, social inequalities, urban studies)
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard	Ph.D. U.C. Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor, African American Studies (South Africa, poor whites, race in foreign policy, diaspora, comparative racial politics, third world feminisms, feminist pedagogy, black political thought)
Mei Zhan	Ph.D. Stanford University Assistant Professor of Anthropology (medical anthropology, cultural and social science, globalization, transnationalism, gender; China and United States)