Yousuf Al-Bulushi
  • Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Director
    Ph.D., Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

  • political theory, racial regimes, political economy of globalization, urban geography, comparative global movements, africa and africana studies

  •  SST 583

  • yalbulus@uci.edu
  • Website
Long T. Bui
  • Associate Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D.,  UC San Diego 

  • qualitative social sciences, transnational gender and sexuality, technocultural studies, refugee/ethnic studies

  •  SST 559

  • longb@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Sylvia Croese
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Sociology, Stellenbosch University 

  • political sociology, urban studies, transdisciplinary research, decoloniality

  • scroese@uci.edu
Eve Darian-Smith
  • Professor and Chair, Global and International Studies
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
    M.A., Harvard University, 1991
    LLB, University of Melbourne, 1988

  • human rights, global governance, international law, postcolonialism, indigenous law and politics, ethnographic approaches, social and legal theory

  •  SST 569 | 949-824-1072

  • edarian@uci.edu
  • Website
Christopher Harris
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Politics and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research 

  • black studies, black political thought, black critical theory, black culture and aesthetics, social movements, political theory, ethnography, cultural studies

  •  SST 535

  • christopher.paul.harris@uci.edu
Alexander David Huezo
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University 
    M.A., Latin American Studies, UCLA 
    B.A., Political Science, UCLA 

  • environmental justice studies, war on drugs, U.S. militarism, latin american studies, ethnography, geospatial analysis

  •  593 Social Science Tower

  • huezoad@uci.edu
  • Website
Yatta Kiazolu
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UCLA 

  • u.s. and african american history, women and gender studies, african diaspora studies

  •  579 Social Science Tower

  • ykiazolu@uci.edu
Philip McCarty
  • Associate Professor of Teaching
    Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2007

  • global & international studies, interdisciplinary analytical frameworks, global media, mediated ideologies

  •  SST 595

  • philip.mccarty@uci.edu
  • Website
Maria Montenegro
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 
    M.A., Museum Studies, New York University 

  • indigenous and native american studies, critical latinx indigeneities, indigenous law and politics, settler and internal colonialism, plurinationality, anticolonial praxis, critical archival theory, community-based research

  •  SST 521

  • memonte2@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Tiara R. Na'puti
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 

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

  •  SST 533

  • tnaputi@uci.edu
Brenda Nicolas
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 
    M.A., Latin American Studies, University of California, San Diego 
    B.A., Latin American Studies and Sociology, University of California, Riverside 

  • Indigenous studies, comunalidad, latin america, latinx studies, settler colonialism, migration/transborder/intergenerational studies, mexico, gender and youth studies, critical ethnography, oral histories, community-engaged methods

  •  SST 539

  • nicolasb@uci.edu
  • Website
Fantasia Painter
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 
    M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley 
    B.A., Ethnic Studies, Columbia University 

  • 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

  •  555 Social Science Tower

  • fpainter@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Mamyrah Prosper
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Florida International University 

  • social movements, caribbean and latin america

  •  SST 557

  • mprosper@uci.edu
Vibhuti Ramachandran
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Anthropology,  New York University 
    M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago 
    M.A., Sociology, University of Delhi 
    B.A., (Hons.) Journalism, Lady Shri Ram College 

  • law, gender and sexuality, south asia, postcolonial law, state practices, human rights, humanitarianism, development, NGOs, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, labor, childhood, and migration

  •  SST 563

  • vibhutir@uci.edu
  • Website
Sarah Whitt
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., UC Berkeley 

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

  •  SST 581

  • sawhitt@uci.edu
  • Website
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara 

  • South Africa, poor whites, race in foreign policy, diaspora, comparative racial politics, black political thought, third world feminisms, feminist pedagogy, decolonizing theory, comparative political theory, community and civic engagement, radical thought

  • (949) 824-7035

  • twilloug@uci.edu
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