departments & programs affiliated research centers contact social sciences
   
2007-2008
 

Batiste, Stephanie
Ph.D., The George Washington University (American Studies)
BLACK STUDIES/ENGLISH, Assistant Professor
Research Area:  African American Literature

 

Castillas, Dolores Inés
Ph.D., University of Michigan (American Culture)
CHICANA AND CHICANO STUDIES, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: U.S. Spanish-language Media, Radio and Sound Practices, Language Politics, Migration and Masculinity, Latino Popular Culture

 

Lezra, Ester
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Literature)
GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Transnational and Intercultural Studies

  Lien, Pei-Te
Ph.D., University of Florida (Political Science)
POLITICAL SCIENCE, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, and Political Behavior
  Harthorn, Barbara
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (Anthropology)
WOMEN'S STUDIES, Associate Professor
Research Areas: Research methods and Methodology
  Mehta, Aashish
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Agricultural & Applied Economics)
GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Microeconomics and Public Policy with focus on Asia
  Norris, Andrew
Ph.D., University of California, Berkely (Rhetoric)
POLITICAL SCIENCE, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Interdisciplinary, Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Modern Political Theory
  Putnam, Linda
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (Speech Communication)
COMMUNICATION, Professor
Research Areas: Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, Negotiation, and Conflict Management
 

Rupert, Peter
Ph.D., University of Rochester (Economics)
ECONOMICS, Professor
Research Areas: Macroeconomics, M
monetary Theory, Aggregate Labor Markets, and Family Economics

 

Stewart, Jeffrey
Ph.D., Yale (American Studies)
BLACK STUDIES, Professor
Research Areas: History of the Harlem Renaissance

 

Vanderwarker, Amber
Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Anthropology)
ANTHROPOLOGY, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: New World Archaeology, Middle-Range Societies, Agriculture, and Environmental Archaeology

  Walsh, Casey
Ph.D., New School for Social Research, New York (Anthropology)
ANTHROPOLOGY, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Socio-Cultural Anthropology, and Political Economy
  Wilson, Gregory
Ph.D., University of Carolina at Chapel Hill (Anthropology)
ANTHROPOLOGY, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Prehistory of the southeastern and midwestern United States,  origins of social inequality, warfare, geographic information systems,  and household archaeology
2006-2007
  Afifi, Tamara
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Communication)
COMMUNICATION, Associate Professor
Research Areas: Family Communication and Interpersonal Communication
  Afifi, Walid
Ph.D., University of Arizona (Communication)
COMMUNICATION, Associate Professor
Research Areas:  Interpersonal Communication
  Kilenthong, Tee Weerachart
Ph.D., University of Chicago (Economics)
ECONOMICS, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: macroeconomics, contract theory, and development economics
  Myers, Karen
Ph.D., Arizona State University (Communication)
COMMUNICATION, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Organizational Communication, Socialization, and Assimilation, Organizational Knowledge, Identity, Emotion Management, Conflict, and Leadership
  Ninh, Erin
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (English)
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Asian American literature and literary studies, feminist studies and women's literature, ethnic literature, cultural studies
  Rios, Victor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (Ethnic Studies)
SOCIOLOGY, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Juvenile Justice, Chicana/o-Latina/o Sociology, Race and Penality, Black-Latino Relations, Masculinity, Youth Culture
  Turnovsky, Carolyn Pinedo
Ph.D., City University of New York (Sociology)
SOCIOLOGY, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: race and ethnicity, Latino/a studies, immigration studies, and urban ethnography
 

Weber, Rene
Ph.D., Berlin University of Technology (Psychology)
COMMUNICATION, Assistant Professor
Research Areas: Communication, Research Methods & Statistics, Neurophysiological Media Research