Core Faculty
- Assistant Professor
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
- Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Ph.D., UC San Diego - qualitative social sciences, transnational gender and sexuality, technocultural studies, refugee/ethnic studies
- SST 559
- longb@uci.edu
- Website
- 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
- CV
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
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 and Graduate Program Director
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 2007 - global & international studies, interdisciplinary analytical frameworks, global media, mediated ideologies
- SST 595
- 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
- SST 521
- memonte2@uci.edu
- Website
- CV
Tiara R. Na'puti
- Assistant 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
- 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
- Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, UC Berkeley - human geography, political ecology, global political economy, global ethnography, critical geopolitics, china and latin america
- SST 593
- gustavo.oliveira@uci.edu
- Website
- -- On leave effective 7/1/2022 --
- 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
- 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
- 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