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Director / Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
John Gamber
Director / Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
Research Interests

Environmental Humanities, Ethnic Studies, Settler Colonialism, Native American Studies

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Kevan Aguilar
Assistant Professor
Kevan Aguilar
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War; racial formations; Chicanx/Latinx history; Global Indigenous Studies; immigration/exile; revolution and radicalism

kevana@uci.edu

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Professor
Sharon Block
Professor
Research Interests

Race, history of sexuality, rape and sexual harassment, gender, African American history, history of the body, colonial America, Native American history, computational data mining, digital humanities, equity and inclusion in Academia, pedagogy

sblock@uci.edu

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Alex Borucki
Professor
Alex Borucki
Professor
Research Interests

African Diaspora, Early Modern Atlantic World, Colonial Latin America

aborucki@uci.edu

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Associate Professor
Alicia Carroll
Associate Professor
Research Interests

19th-century American literature; Native American and Indigenous literature and cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; queer theory; feminist theory; autobiography

alicia.carroll@uci.edu

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Assistant Professor
David Colmenares
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

Colonial Mexico, Mesoamerican Studies, Visual Culture, Antiquarianism, Early Modern Iberia

dhcolmen@uci.edu

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Franklin J Dollar
Professor
Research Interests

High intensity laser plasma interactions

fdollar@uci.edu

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Adria Imada
Professor
Research Interests

Race, indigeneity, disability, gender, and health; U.S. and Pacific Histories; Visual Studies; popular culture

aimada@uci.edu

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Luohua Jiang
Professor
Research Interests

Multilevel and Longitudinal Data Analysis, Latent Variable Modeling, Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Health Disparities Research

lhjiang@hs.uci.edu

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Professor
Kathleen Johnson
Professor
Research Interests

Paleoclimate, Speleothems, Geochemistry, Isotopes, Asian Monsoon

kathleen.johnson@uci.edu

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Assistant Professor
Meryem Kamil
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

New media studies, postcolonial studies, Palestine/Palestinian social movements, ethnic studies, American studies

mkamil@uci.edu

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Horacio Legrás
Professor
Horacio Legras
Professor
Research Interests

Latin American Culture. Psychoanalysis. Philosophy. Political Theory. Popular Culture and Insurgency. Photography

hlegras@uci.edu

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Professor
Mark LeVine
Professor
Research Interests

Cultures and histories of the modern Middle East and Africa, Critical Theory, Islamic studies, Indigenous theories and Methodologies, Globalization, the role of music in political struggles, culture jamming

mlevine@uci.edu

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Assistant Professor
Eva Macias
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

Indigenous Dance and Performance, Indigenous Dance (practice), Critical Dance Studies, Relationship of Dance to Gender, Race and Identity

e.macias@uci.edu

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Associate Professor
Laura Mitchell
Associate Professor
Research Interests

Sub-Saharan Africa; South Africa; Dutch East India Company; colonialism; environment; labor & slavery; family & household formation

mitchell@uci.edu

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Tiara R. Na'puti
Associate Professor
Tiara Na'puti
Associate Professor
Research Interests

communication studies, rhetoric, native american and indigenous studies, oceania, militarism, empire, indigenous environmental justice

tnaputi@uci.edu

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Rachel O'Toole
Associate Professor
Rachel O'Toole
Associate Professor
Research Interests

colonial Latin America, the Andes, African Diaspora, Atlantic world, history of race, gender

rotoole@uci.edu

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Assistant Professor
Fantasia Painter
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

indigenous peoples in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands; settler colonialism in the United States; critical race and ethnic studies; the other-than-human; anti/inter/transdisciplinary methods

fpainter@uci.edu

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Assistant Professor
Sarah Whitt
Assistant Professor
Research Interests

native american and indigenous studies, indigenous feminisms, indigenous women and globalization, settler colonial studies, gender and sexuality studies, history of science and medicine

sawhitt@uci.edu

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