Core Faculty
Name	Title
Dina Al-Kassim	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature (gender and queer theory, global modernisms in Africa, Middle East and Europe, postcolonial critique, Arabic, anglophone and francophone literature)
Tom Boellstorff	Ph.D. Stanford University Associate 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)
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)
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)
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 Professor of English, Asian American Studies & 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)
Gabriele Schwab	Ph.D. University of Konstanz UCI Chancellor’s Professor of Comparative Literature (modern literature, critical theory, psychoanalysis, comparative literature)
Jared Sexton	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley Assistant 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)
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)
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 Assistant 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 DiegoUCI Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (Asian American communities, Asian American women, immigration and race relations, social inequalities, urban studies)
Mei Zhan	Ph.D. Stanford University Assistant Professor of Anthropology (medical anthropology, cultural and social science, globalization, transnationalism, gender; China and United States)