Yousuf Al-Bulushi
  • Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director (Acting Chair, Winter 2026)
    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
Long T. Bui
  • Professor and Graduate Director
    Ph.D.,  UC San Diego 

  • critical refugee studies, Global Asias and Vietnam studies, race gender sexuality studies, media cultural studies, critical university studies

  •  559 Social Science Tower

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

  • political sociology, (everyday) urban politics/authoritarianism; urban planning, housing, mobility, finance, infrastructure; global urban development/policy/expertise; Southern urbanism, global urbanism; Angola, Africa, African cities; transdisciplinary research/ knowledge co-production/methods; (post)colonialism, decoloniality

  •  545 Social Science Tower

  • scroese@uci.edu
Eve Darian-Smith
  • Distinguished Professor and Chair (On Sabbatical, Winter 2026)
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1995
    M.A., Harvard University, 1991
    LLB, University of Melbourne, 1988

  • human rights, global governance, postcolonial and decolonial theory, rising authoritarianism, ethnographic approaches

  •  569 Social Science Tower

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

  • Abolition and/as Worldmaking, Global Critical Theory, Black Studies and Black Political Thought, Marxism, Revolution and Revolutionary Movements, Culture and Cultural Studies, Political Aesthetics, Ideology and Desire, Writing as Form and Method

  •  535 Social Science Tower

  • 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, migration

  •  593 Social Science Tower

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

  • 20th century US and African American history, women and gender, modern Africa and the African diaspora, black internationalism, African decolonization, black feminisms

  •  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

  •  595 Social Science Tower

  • 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 

  • Critical archival theory, Indigenous and Native American studies, critical Latinx Indigeneities, Indigenous law and politics, settler and internal colonialism, critical human rights, plurinationality, anticolonial praxis, community-based research, archival ethnography

  •  521 Social Science Tower

  • memonte2@uci.edu
  • Website
Tiara R. Na'puti
  • Associate Professor and Acting Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Diversity
    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 

  • global Indigeneities, Latin America, Latinx Studies, transborder and migration studies, Indigenous intellectual thought, settler colonialism, Native ethnography

  •  539 Social Science Tower

  • nicolasb@uci.edu
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 

  • native american and indigenous studies, research methodologies, land and law

  •  555 Social Science Tower

  • fpainter@uci.edu
  • Website
Mamyrah Prosper
  • Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Racial Justice
    Ph.D., Florida International University 

  • social movements, caribbean and latin america

  •  557 Social Science Tower

  • mprosper@uci.edu
Vibhuti Ramachandran
  • Associate 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, nongovernmental organizations, trafficking,sex work, labor and migration, childhood

  •  563 Social Science Tower

  • 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

  •  581 Social Science Tower

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

  • South Africa, black political thought, third world feminism, decolonizing theory, community and civic engagement, youth led politics, poetics, humanistic social science, participatory action research, African Studies

  • twilloug@uci.edu
Ka-eul Yoo
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz 
    M.A., English, Yonsei University 
    B.A., English, Yonsei University 

  • literary and cultural studies in global asias, disability justice, public health policy, war/empire studies, critical korean studies

  •  547 Social Science Tower

  • kaeuly1@uci.edu