People

Faculty Associates

  • Department of Geography
  • Department of Sociology

Migration, social stratification based on skin color, and the effect of social programs on socio-economic and demographic outcomes.

 

  • Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Race, labor, empire, social movements, urban studies, Latin American studies, pedagogy, Marxism, liberation theology

  • Department of Sociology

race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state-sponsored violence in both France and the United States

  • Department of Political Science

Comparative Politics, Identity, Latin American Studies

 
  • Department of Linguistics

Linguistic description and theory, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, language documentation, linguistic typology, lexical semantics, lexicography, language and culture, Mesoamerica, Otomanguean languages

  • Department of Geography

Geographic Mobility, Sexual Health, and HIV Prevention.

  • Department of History

Mexican History; The U.S.-Mexico Border; Transnational History; Chicano History; Gender, and Women's History

  • Department of Feminist Studies

Political Economy of Globalization, Human Trafficking, Immigrant Women

  • Department of History

Chicana/o History, Im/Migration, Juvenile Justice, U.S. Women of Color, Borderlands

  • Department of Feminist Studies

Transgender Studies, Queer Theory, Transnational Feminism and Sexuality Studies, Queer Migration Studies, South Asia Studies, International Development and Human Rights, Scholar & Activist Methodologies.

  • Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Immigration; Latinx Sociology; Intersectionality; Medical Sociology; Sociology of Mental Health; Aging; Social Determinants of Health

  • Department of Global Studies

Transnational migration, refugee studies, ethnic cleansing, displacement, Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe

  • Department of Chicana/o Studies

Literature, gender, cultural studies, oral traditions, feminist theory, film documentaries, nationalist & ethnic construction theories, theories on aesthetic activism

  • Department of Chicana/o Studies

U.S. SPANISH-LANGUAGE MEDIA; CHICANA AND LATINA POPULAR CULTURE; RADIO & SOUND PRACTICES; RACIAL POLITICS OF LANGUAGE; ACCENT STUDIES; AND LANGUAGE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

  • Department of Communication

Stress, Coping, and Resilience of Immigrant Youth; Culturally-Grounded Interpersonal Health Communication; Communication about Substance Use with Parents and Friends

  • Department of Sociology

His research examines the causes and consequences of social inequality in three domains: education, family and the criminal justice system. 

  • Department of Political Science

American Politics, Identity, Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior

Affiliated with Asian American Studies, Black Studies, and Feminist Studies

 


 

 

  • Department of Geography

Population (Migration, Fertility), Health, Environmental Change, Deforestation, Rural Development, and Latin America

  • Department of Political Science

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Migration, Displacement, Middle East Politics

  • Department of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
  • Department of Counseling
  • Clinical
  • and School Psychology at the Gervitz School of Education
  • Department of Anthropology

Indigenous studies, gender & sexuality, race & racism, development, migration, Mexico

  • Department of Asian American Studies

Immigration Law and Policy, Race Theory, Political Theory and Public Law.

 

  • Department of Asian American Studies

Asian American Studies; immigration and welfare policy; health care access; race, class, and gender; urban theory; feminist theory and methods; environmental justice.

  • Department of Sociology
  • Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Transnational Migration and Children of Immigrants; Identity and Community Formation; Oaxaca, Los Angeles

  • Department of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education

Immigrant-origin youth, family-school relationships, educational policy and evaluation, qualitative research methods, school choice, college access, educational equity

  • Health Equity Initiatives
  • Department of History

Asian American Studies,
Black Studies,
Chicana/o Studies,
East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,
Religious Studies,
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies

  • Department of Global Studies

African Diaspora, Caribbean literature, Post-colonial Literature, Haitian literature, culture, history, Gender and transnationalism, and Migration and identity

  • Department of Global Studies

Sikhism and Sikh Diaspora, Diasporas and Development, International Political Economy, Indian and Chinese Development, Role of China and India in Sub-Saharan Africa