Faculty Advisory Committee

Abigail Andrews

Sociology Department and Urban Studies and Planning Department

Research Interests: Globalization, Development, Gender, Migration, Political Sociology, Latinos / Latin America, Urban Studies, Social Theory, Qualitative Methods.

Dennis Childs

Literature Department, Ethnic Studies Department

Director, African American Studies Minor Program

Research Interests: Prison Studies, Slavery Studies, African American Literature, Legal Studies, Blues, American Literature, Racial Gothic Literature.

Zeinabu Davis

Communication Department, Critical Gender Studies Department

Research Interests: Mass media, Film History, World Cinema, Folklore, African and African American cinema, African American Women, Black Deaf Culture. Dr. Davis is also an award winning filmmaker.

Ricardo R. Dominguez

Visual Arts Department

Research Interests: Cultural Theory, Gender Studies, Cognitive Science, Digital Media, Latin American Art, Art Theory and Politics, Performance Art, Critical Pedagogy, Social Movements, Marxism.

Fatima El-Tayeb

Ethnic Studies and Literature Department

Associate Director of Critical Gender Studies

Research Interests: African Diaspora Studies, Queer Theory, Transnational Feminism, Film Studies, European Migrant and Minority Cultures, Queer of Color Critique, Visual Cultural Studies, Media Theory.

Curtis Marez

Ethnic Studies Department Chair

Research Interests: Visual culture (TV, film, new media) and difference; Chicana/o media and social movements; critical university studies; race in digital culture; farm workers in a global frame.

Luis Martín-Cabrera

Associate Professor of Peninsular and Latin American Literature and Culture

Research Interests: Marxism and Psychoanalysis as a theoretical matrix toddress a series of problems such as the politics of memory in Spain and Latin America, the convoluted relationship between market, culture and State, the privatization of the public university, the critique of Neo-liberalism in Latin America and the development of intersectional analysis (the asymmetrical relationship between race, gender, class, and sexuality) as a tool to rethink labor history, neo-colonialism, migration and the global and national struggles against the expansion of capitalism.

Amanda Solomon Amorao

Sixth College Interim Director of Culture, Art, and Technology Writing Program

Shelley Streeby

Ethnic Studies Department and Literature Department

Director of Ethnic Studies Graduate Studies

Research Interests: 19^th and 20^th Century US Literature and Culture; Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies; Comparative Colonialisms, War, and Cultural Memory; Fantasy, SF, and Speculative Fiction; Gender Studies and Queer Theory; Film, Media, and Visual Culture; Labor, Transnational Social Movements, and Radical History; American Studies.

Daphne Taylor-Garcia

Ethnic Studies Department

Research Interests: Comparative colonialisms in the Americas; the coloniality of gender, sexuality, and being; visual economies of the casta system and plantation slavery; lumpen phenomenology; cultural studies; decolonial theory and politics.

Brad Werner

Complex Systems Laboratory, Climate, Atmospheric Sciences & Physical Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Edwina Welch

Tom Wong

Political Science Department