Core Faculty
- Associate 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
- 583 Social Science Tower
- yalbulus@uci.edu
- Website
- Professor and Graduate Director
Ph.D., UC San Diego - global Asias and orientalism, critical refugee studies and Vietnam, critical university studies, cultural and media studies race, gender and sexuality, histories of science and technology
- 559 Social Science Tower
- longb@uci.edu
- Website
- CV
Sylvia Croese
- Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Sociology, Stellenbosch University - political sociology, urban studies, transdisciplinary research, decoloniality
- 545 Social Science Tower
- scroese@uci.edu
- Distinguished Professor and Chair, Global and International Studies (On Sabbatical
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Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
M.A., Harvard University, 1991
LLB, University of Melbourne, 1988 - human rights, global governance, international law, crises of democracy and rising authoritarianism, critical university studies, critical global studies, postcolonial/decolonial theory, ethnographic methods, anthropology of law
- 569 Social Science Tower
- 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
- 535 Social Science Tower
- christopher.paul.harris@uci.edu
- 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
- Associate Professor of Teaching
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2007 - global & international studies, interdisciplinary analytical frameworks, global media, mediated ideologies
- 595 Social Science Tower
- philip.mccarty@uci.edu
- Website
- 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
- 521 Social Science Tower
- 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
- 533 Social Science Tower
- 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
- 539 Social Science Tower
- nicolasb@uci.edu
- 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; Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice
Ph.D., Florida International University - social movements, caribbean and latin america
- 557 Social Science Tower
- mprosper@uci.edu
- 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
- 563 Social Science Tower
- vibhutir@uci.edu
- Website
- 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
- 581 Social Science Tower
- sawhitt@uci.edu
- Website
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
- Associate Professor
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara - Black political thought; Pan African and third world feminist thought; politics of knowledge; political education, youth led politics, poetics and politics, revolutionary women, humanistic social science, african feminisms; african politics
- twilloug@uci.edu
Ka-eul Yoo
- Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Literature, UC Santa Cruz
M.A., English, Yonsei University
B.A., English, Yonsei University - literary and cultural studies in Global Asias, disability justice, public health policy, comparative ethnic studies, critical Korean studies, U.S. military empire in Asia and the Pacific, Cold War racism and ableism
- 547 Social Science Tower
- k.yoo@uci.edu
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