Department Directory

  • Assistant Professor

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, Media Studies

Asian American media studies, digital and social media, human-centered design, popular culture, gender and sexuality studies, learning and education, ethnography, critical race theory, affect.

  • HSSB 5032
  • Professor

Queer of Color Critique, Women of Color Feminisms, South Asian Diasporic and Migration Studies, Asian American Feminism, Asian American Queer and Sexuality Studies, Critical University Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Public Engagement and Humanities, Media Studies

  • Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Asian American social movement history, Japanese American radical history 1940s-1970s, Black Power studies and the Black Radical Tradition, Afro-Asian solidarities, and activist-scholarship research and pedagogies.

  • HSSB 5034
  • Chair and Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, English

Asian American and comparative ethnic literatures, women's literature, feminist studies, cultural studies, family and intergenerational conflict, power and subject formation, gender and the embodied subject, critical mental health, sexual violence.

  • HSSB 5036
  • https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/91508894029?pwd=WjF5eDNiWkZRUXhqZkxxU2V2eG5Mdz09
  • Associate Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought and Literature

Creative writing; Asian American literature; cultural studies; postcolonial literature and criticism; sports studies.

  • Professor

Immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law.

  • (805) 893-8573
  • HSSB 5050
  • Professor

Ph.D., Northwestern University, Sociology

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

  • HSSB 5040
  • Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History

U.S. history, Asian-American history, immigration, family, gender, and law

  • HSSB 5030
  • Continuing Lecturer

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, Asian American History and History of Science

  • HSSB 5046