Our award-winning faculty knows that what our students do in the lecture hall and the seminar room is inextricably linked to the world beyond. What students learn about cultural practice and community formation, racism and white supremacy, political struggle and social justice – whether in theoretical terms or in everyday practice, whether through literature or anthropology or cultural studies or history – forms a frame for not only how they see the world but how they engage with it.
Christine Bacareza Balance
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies Program, Asian Studies, Music, Performing and Media Arts
Derek Chang
Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, History
Juliana Hu Pegues
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Teaching
American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, Literatures in English
Viranjini P Munasinghe
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Anthropology, Asian American Studies Program, Institute for Comparative Modernities
Tejasvi Nagaraja
Assistant Professor
Africana Studies and Research Center, American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, History
Qi Wang
Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor
Asian American Studies Program, Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Cognitive Science Program, Psychology