Core Teaching Faculty

Charise Cheney

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Interests: African American Popular and Political Cultures; Black Nationalist Ideologies and Practices; Gender and Sexuality

Courtney Cox

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  • Title: Assistant Professor (on leave, AY23)
  • Interests: Sport Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Black Studies, Critical Data Studies

Lynn Fujiwara

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Interests: Asian American Studies; Women of Color Feminisms and Queer of Color Critique; Immigration; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Media and Cultural Studies; Social Policy

Brian Klopotek

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  • Title: IRES Department Head & Associate Professor
  • Interests: Native American and Indigenous Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, Historical Studies, Environmental Justice

Lana Lopesi

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Interests: Pacific Studies, Indigenous and Women of Color Feminisms, Contemporary Pacific Art, Global Indigeneities

Ernesto Javier Martínez

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Feminist Theory, Literary Studies

Jennifer O'Neal

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; Decolonizing Methodologies; Cultural Heritage Archives; Traditional Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities

Laura Pulido

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  • Title: Professor
  • Interests: Comparative Ethnic Studies, Chicanx Studies, Critical Human Geography, Environmental Justice