Chair: Stephen H. Sumida

Professors

Butler, Johnnella E. * 1987; EdD, 1979, University of Massachusetts; Afro-American and multicultural studies, comparative American ethnic literature, African diaspora.

Cauce, Ana Mari * 1986; PhD, 1984, Yale University; community/developmental psychology, socialization of children/adolescents of color, ethnic identity.

Flores, Lauro H. * 1980, (Adjunct); PhD, 1980, University of California (San Diego); Chicano literature, contemporary Latin American literature (narrative).

Kashima, Tetsuden * 1976; PhD, 1975, University of California (San Diego); Japanese American incarceration and social organization, sociology of race and ethnic relations.

Peña, Devon G. Peña, Devon. 1999; PhD, 1983, University of Texas (Austin), environmental anthropology, agroecology, environmental history, political ecology, social movements (Mexico, U.S. Southwest, Taiwan).

Sumida, Stephen H. 1998; PhD, 1982, University of Washington; Asian American studies, Asian/ Pacific American literature, multicultural studies.

Walter, John C. * 1989; PhD, 1971, University of Maine; Afro-American studies; Afro-American, American, Caribbean immigrant, sport, and women’s history.

Associate Professors

Bonus, Enrique C. 1998; PhD, 1997, University of California (San Diego); Asian American and Filipino American studies, communication and cultural studies, race relations.

Fearn-Banks, Kathleen A. 1990, (Adjunct); MS, 1965, University of California (Los Angeles); crisis communications, history.

Gamboa, Erasmo * 1976; MA, 1973, PhD, 1984, University of Washington; history, Pacific Northwest, Chicano and Latino, social, labor and immigration.

Ginorio, Angela B. * 1981, (Adjunct); PhD, 1979, Fordham University; women and/in science, violence and women, socially defined identities, psychology issues for Latinas.

Guerra, Juan C. * 1990, (Adjunct); MA, 1983, PhD, 1992, University of Illinois (Chicago); rhetoric, composition, literacy, ethnography.

Salas, Elizabeth 1987; MA, 1977, California State University, Los Angeles; PhD, 1987, University of California (Los Angeles); New Mexican history and politics, Chicana, Mexicana and Chicano history, minorities in the military.

Yee, Shirley J. * 1988, (Adjunct); PhD, 1987, Ohio State University; U.S. women’s history, African-American history, nineteenth-century U.S. social history.

Assistant Professors

Habell-Pallán, Michelle 1998; PhD, 1997, University of California (Santa Cruz); Chicano studies and literature, performance and popular culture, women of color feminist theories.

Nomura, Gail M. 1999; MA, 1971, University of California (Berkeley); PhD, 1978, University of Hawaii; Asian American studies, Asian American history, Asian American women’s history.

Retman, Sonnet, 2002; Ph.D., 1997 University of California, Los Angeles; African-American literature and culture; popular music and film; critical race theory

Rivers, Patrick L. 1999; PhD. 1998, University of North Carolina; political science, socio-legal studies and cultural studies.

Taylor, Paul C. 1998, (Adjunct); PhD, 1997, Rutgers University; social and political philosophy, American pragmatism, aesthetics, race theory.

Lecturers

Maulana, Seyed M. 1984; MUP, 1988, University of Washington; African and African American studies, Swahili.

So, Connie C. 1990; Ph.D., 2000, UC Berkeley; Asian Pacific Islander history and culture; American ethnicity, identity, and politics.

Adjuncts/Affiliates

Professors

Baldasty, Gerald J. * 1974; MA, 1974, University of Wisconsin; PhD, 1978, University of Washington; communications history, media and gender, race, government-press relations  (Communications)

Associate Professors

Moody, Joycelyn K. * 1991; MA, 1980, University of Wisconsin; PhD, 1993, University of Kansas; nineteenth-century American, African-American, and women’s literature, autobiography  (English)

Assistant Professors

Curtis-Newton, Valerie * 1993 MA, 1996, University of Washington; directing, acting, African-American theatre history  (Drama)

Ramamurthy, Priti * 1997; PhD, 1995, Syracuse University; political economy of development, third-world feminism, irrigation, agro-food systems, South Asia  (Women Studies)

Simpson, Andrea Y. * 1993; PhD, 1993, Emory University; ethnic identity and its effects on political attitudes and behavior  (Political Science)

Sunindyo, Saraswati * 1993; PhD, 1993, University of Wisconsin; feminism and nationalism, comparative women’s movements, Southeast Asia  (Women Studies)

Vu, Thuy Affiliate Assistant Professor

Ramirez, Luis Affiliate Instructor (Ethnic Culture Center)