Paul Amar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Law and Society: the race/sex politics of police brutality, authoritarian legacies, and security regimes in Latin America and the Middle East, particularly Brazil and Egypt
Ingrid Banks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Black Studies: African American Studies, race and racism, Black feminist theory
Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies: social and political theory, Latino/a politics, multicultural democracy and citizenship
Aaron Belkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science, and Director, Michael D. Palm Center: masculinity, violence, and sexuality in the military
Ann Bermingham, Ph.D., Professor, History of Art and Architecture: 18th and 19th –century European art, particularly British art
Silvia Bermúdez, Ph.D., Professor, Spanish and Portuguese: twentieth-century peninsular and Latin American poetry and politics, literary and cultural theory
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Professor, Sociology: women, culture, and development; transnational activism; feminism and race
Gayle Binion, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science: public law, law and society, feminist jurisprudence
Maurizia Boscagli, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English: gender studies and feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, critical and cultural theory
Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D., Professor, Linguistics: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language, gender, and sexuality, African American English, Mexican and Chicano Spanish
Julie Carlson, Ph.D., Professor, English: British Romanticism, feminist and queer theories, social revolutions of the 1790s and 1960s
Sarah Cline, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies: Latin American history, Atlantic world history, comparative studies of gender, race, ethnicity, and colonialism
Patricia Cline Cohen, Ph.D., Professor, History: U.S. women's history, history of sexuality
Sharon A. Farmer, Ph.D., Professor, History: medieval women and gender, medieval towns, medieval poor, relations between western Europe and the east
Sarah Fenstermaker, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research: women and work, gender inequality, feminist epistemologies, ethnographic methods
L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, Ph.D., Professor, English: Medieval English and Scottish literature, critical theory, gender and sexualities, public humanities
Nancy Gallagher, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Chair of Middle East Studies Program: modern Middle Eastern and North African history
Bishnupriya Ghosh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English: postcolonial theory and film; feminist theory and gender studies; literatures written in English
Avery Gordon, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: social theory, race, gender, culture and art, radical theory and politics
Mary Hancock, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology and History: South Asian anthropology and history, ethnohistory
Tania Israel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology; School of Education: gender issues, feminist psychology, LGBTQ issues, social justice, sexuality education and counseling
Ursula R. Mahlendorf, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies: German language and literature, comparative literature, women’s studies
Scott Marcus, Ph.D., Professor, Music: North Indian and Middle Eastern music and performance practice, Arab music theory, North Indian folk music, tuning and temperament, gender and music
Claudine Michel, Professor, Black Studies, and Director of the Center for Black Studies Research: moral development among African American women and youth, multicultural education, religion, children's literature
Stephan Miescher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History: nineteenth and twentieth-century social history of west Africa, colonialism, gender, masculinities, oral historiography, history of sexualities
Catherine Nesci, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, French and Italian: nineteenth-century French literature and cultural studies, literary theory, feminist and gender studies
Christopher Newfield, Ph.D., Professor, English: nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, literary and social theory, gender, sexuality, and race
Lisa Parks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Film Studies: global media and broadcast history, cultural studies
Constance Penley, Ph.D., Professor, Film Studies: film history and theory, media studies, literary and rhetorical studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, science and technology studies, contemporary art
Ann Plane, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Director of Public Historical Studies: American colonial history, Native American history, history of women and the family
Erika Rappaport, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History: modern Britain and its empire, modern European gender history, comparative consumer cultures
Horacio Roque-Ramírez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies: queer/LGBTQ community history and theory, Central American studies, oral history theories and methods
Chela Sandoval, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chicano Studies: cyber and millennial studies, third space feminism, critical media theory and production, oppositional consciousness, social movement
Beth Schneider, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences: sexuality, feminist studies, social movements, AIDS, health
Denise Segura, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: gender, feminist studies, Chicano/a studies, race relations, work and community studies
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Asian American Studies: film and performance theory and production, theories of sexuality, Asian American cultural studies and transnationalism, feminist postcolonial studies and social theory
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ph.D., Professor, History of Art and Architecture: photography, contemporary art, nineteenth-century French art, feminist and critical theory
Ines Talamantez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religious Studies: Native American religious traditions and philosophies, religions of Mexico and Chicano religion, women and healing, religion and ecology
Verta Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Sociology: social movements, gender, feminist studies, sexuality, and health
France Winddance Twine, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: gender, girlhood, racism/anti-racism, feminist theory, critical race theory, field research methods, multiracial/transracial families
Janet Walker, Ph.D., Professor, Film and Media Studies: film history and historiography, documentary film, film and ethnography
Mayfair Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures: anthropology of the state, modernity, China and Chinese diaspora in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the West
Xiaojian Zhao, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Asian American Studies: U.S. history, Asian American history, immigration, family, gender, and law
