Faculty

RIDGS Cluster Hire Faculty

Name	Contact	Expertise
Karen Mary Davalos Chicano & Latino Studies American Studies Art History		Chicana/o art and culture; Latina/o spirituality; museum studies; midwestern Latino ethnography; oral history and the archive; feminist theory and editorial praxis; community-based learning and decolonial methods; arts organizations and artist collectives
Gabriela Spears-Rico Assistant Professor American Indian Studies Chicano & Latino Studies American Studies Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies	[email protected]	Cultural anthropology, performance studies, gendered violence, heritage tourism, mestizaje, decolonial feminism, ethnography, Chicanx indigeneity, Latinx spirituality

Name	Contact	Expertise
Miranda Joseph American Studies	[email protected]	Feminist, Marxist, poststructuralist, and queer theory; cultural studies methods; LGBT studies
Elizabeth Sumida Huaman American Indian Studies	[email protected]	Culturally-based community development, ecological knowledge and place-based education, Indigenous research design, human rights education
Amelia María de la Luz Montes Chicano & Latino Studies		Latina literature, LGBT literature, creative writing, and theories of identity.
Aren Aizura Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies		queer theory and queer studies; transgender studies; South East Asian studies; labor and political economy; science and medicine; transnationality and globalization
Chotsani Elaine Dean African American & African Studies	[email protected]	Black ceramic artistry
Kale Fajardo Asian American Studies	[email protected]	Gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, queer of color critique, masculinity studies, transgender studies, Philippine Studies, Filipinix Studies, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, globalization studies, migration studies, conceptual ethnographic practice, (UC) Santa Cruz School of Ethnography, visual cultures, photography, environmental humanities, human-fish relations.
Jessica Horvath Williams Critical Disability Studies	[email protected]	A thriving academic community around interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational approaches to studying disability