People

Faculty

Both the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Bachelor of Arts degree program and the graduate Designated Emphasis are supported by principal and affiliated faculty from Anthropology; Education; Feminist Studies; Film and Digital Media; History; History of Art & Visual Culture; History of Consciousness; Latin American & Latino Studies; Linguistics; Literature; Music; Performance, Play, & Design; Politics; Psychology; and Sociology.

Faculty who wish to affiliate with CRES are invited to apply here.

Department Chair

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

  • Title
    • Chair of CRES, Professor of Feminist Studies
  • Campus Email
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Black Studies Director

Nicholas O Mitchell

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Undergraduate Director

Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar

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Principal Faculty

Sophia Azeb

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Micha M Cardenas

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar

  • Pronouns
    • he/him
  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Vilashini Cooppan

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Josen M Diaz

  • Pronouns
    • she/they
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Camilla A Hawthorne

  • Pronouns
    • she/they
  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Sociology
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Campus Email
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Christine J Hong

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Fahima Ife

  • Pronouns
    • she, her
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Jennifer L Kelly

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Feminist Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Marisol Lebron

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Feminist Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Xavier Livermon

  • Pronouns
    • he, him, his, his, himself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Nicholas O Mitchell

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Jennifer Mogannam

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Marcia Ochoa

  • Pronouns
    • she/they
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)
  • Campus Email
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Eric Porter

  • Pronouns
    • he, him, his, his, himself
  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Campus Email
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Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Chair of CRES, Professor of Feminist Studies
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Kriti Sharma

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Savannah Shange

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Anthropology Department
  • Campus Email
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M. Ty

  • Pronouns
    • they
  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
  • Campus Email
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Ronaldo V Wilson

  • Title
    • Professor, Director Creative Writing Program
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Alice Yang

  • Pronouns
    • she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor, History Department
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Campus Email
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Emeriti

Margo J Hendricks

  • Title
    • Professor Emerita
  • Department
    • Humanities Division
  • Campus Email
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Karen T Yamashita

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Affiliated Faculty

Alison Alkon

  • Title
    • Associate Teaching Professor of Community Studies
  • Department
    • Community Studies Program
  • Campus Email
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Amy Marie Argenal

  • Title
    • Assistant Teaching Professor of Community-Engaged Research and Learning
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Campus Email
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Arshad Ali

  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education & Civic Education
  • Department
    • Education Department
  • Campus Email
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Dorian F Bell

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Courtney M Bonam

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Psychology Department
  • Campus Email
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Roberto de Roock

  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology
  • Department
    • Education Department
  • Campus Email
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Lindsey L Dillon

  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Sociology and Sociology Undergraduate Education Chair
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Campus Email
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Jennifer A Gonzalez

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Kirsten Silva Gruesz

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Rekia Jibrin

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor Critical Studies of Education
  • Department
    • Education Department
  • Campus Email
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Regina D Langhout

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Flora E Lu

  • Title
    • Professor, Environmental Studies
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Nidhi A Mahajan

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor
  • Department
    • Anthropology Department
  • Campus Email
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Marc Matera

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Maywa Montenegro

  • Title
    • Associate Professor of Agroecology and Critical Technology Studies
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Josephine H Pham

  • Title
    • Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in Education
  • Department
    • Education Department
  • Campus Email
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Catherine Sue Ramirez

  • Title
    • Professor
  • Department
    • Latin American & Latino Studies
  • Campus Email
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Nirvikar Singh

  • Title
    • Distinguished Professor
  • Department
    • Economics Department
  • Campus Email
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Amanda M Smith

  • Title
    • Associate Professor
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Lecturers and Postdocs


Staff

Taylor Yuriko Ainslie

  • Title
    • Department Manager
  • Phone
    • 831-459-4725
  • Campus Email
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, 403A
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Dejon Barber

  • Title
    • Assistant Manager and Program Coordinator
  • Campus Email
  • Office Location
    • Remote work location, Humanities 1 Room 403B
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Graduate Students

Amando Argueta-Vogel

  • Title
    • Ph.D. Student
  • Department
    • Latin American & Latino Studies
  • Campus Email
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Mai Jalal Awad

  • Title
    • Graduate Student
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Campus Email
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Leonard Cruz Butingan

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Jada Cheek

  • Title
    • Graduate Student
  • Department
    • Psychology Department
  • Campus Email
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Karen Crespo Triveno

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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marina dadico amâncio de souza

  • Title
    • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department
    • Latin American & Latino Studies
  • Campus Email
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Roxanne Kimberly Dobson

  • Title
    • PhD Student in Cultural Anthropology
  • Department
    • Anthropology Department
  • Campus Email
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Alycia Ellington

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Ksenia Fir

  • Title
    • PhD candidate
  • Department
    • Film and Digital Media Department
  • Campus Email
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Lilith Anne Frakes

  • Title
    • PhD student
  • Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
  • Campus Email
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Robin C Gabriel

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Rebecca Lynn Gross

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Brittney Jimenez

  • Title
    • Ph.D. Candidate
  • Department
    • Latin American & Latino Studies
  • Campus Email
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Hans Kuzmich

  • Title
    • Graduate Student
  • Department
    • Film and Digital Media Department
  • Campus Email
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Christopher Allen Lang

  • Title
    • Graduate Student
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Xindi Li

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
  • Campus Email
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Alix Emily MacDonald

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Melissa Deann Mack

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Madison Jarret McCartha

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Kiley McLaughlin

  • Title
    • Graduate Student, TA
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Kristen Nelson

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate & Graduate Student Instructor
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Campus Email
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Lalu Esra Ozban

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • Film and Digital Media Department
  • Campus Email
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Em Padilla

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • Feminist Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Rowan Powell

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Elliot Richardson

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Brian Rivera

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Jacob Sirhan

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Savanna Lynn Solian

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Adriane Kelani Stoia

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Alissa R. Takesy

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • Environmental Studies Department
  • Campus Email
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Sylvane Vaccarino-Ruiz

  • Title
    • UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellow
  • Department
    • Psychology Department
  • Campus Email
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Last modified: Oct 02, 2025