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Ian Khara Ellasante

Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies

African American cultural studies, Black feminisms, Community-Engaged learning, cultural studies, Decolonizing methodologies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Indigenous studies, LGBTQ2+ Youth and Young Adults, North American Indigenous feminisms, North American Indigenous literatures, Peoplehood matrix, race and ethnicity, reproductive justice, Reproductive justice, Settler colonialism, transgender studies

Joyce N. Bennett

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Central America, Ethnicity and identity performance, gender and sexuality, language revitalization, migration, social movements

Stephanie M. Pridgeon

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

20th and 21st century Latin American literature and film, cultural studies, documentary, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Jewish studies, Latin America, literary theory, Marxist theory, memory studies, political culture, race and ethnicity, testimony

Jamie A. Haverkamp

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies

Chicanx and Latinx studies, climate change studies, environmental anthropology, environmental justice/climate justice, feminist studies, Indigenous studies, political ecology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies

Claudia Aburto Guzmán

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies

border studies, cinematic analysis, creative writing, immigration and identity, immigration and identity, Integration of humanistic and natural science pedagogical approaches, Latin American culture, Latin American intellectual inquiry on coloniality, Latin American literature, Latin American literatures and cultures of the 19th- 21st centuries, Latin American Photography and Social Art, Latin American visual arts, Latin American women's literatures and feminist inquiry, Latin American women’s history and cultural production, Latinx poetry and translation, literary analysis, Mexico-U.S. border violence, photography, poetry, Southern cone women's history and cultural production, translation, trauma and post-dictatorship discourses

Jennifer A. Hamilton

Professor of Anthropology

Sonja K. Pieck

Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies

biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, environmental history, environmental justice, environmental movements, environmental politics, human geography, international development, political ecology

Karen Melvin

Thomas Hedley Reynolds Professor of History

charity and religion, colonial Mexico, early modern Catholic world, early modern history, history, history of religion, Latin American history, urban history

Therí Pickens

Charles A. Dana Professor of English and Africana

20th and 21st century African American/Arab American literature, African American literature and cultural studies, Arab American literature and cultural studies, black feminism, cognitive impairment, disability, disability studies, gender studies, literary theory, mental health, physical impairment, spectacular fiction

Myronn E. Hardy

Assistant Professor of English

Contemporary American Poetry, creative writing, Lyric Essay, North Africa, poetry, Poetry in Translation, visual culture