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Kevin Dunn
Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Sarah Fong
Mellon Assistant Professor
American studies; Critical ethnic studies; Comparative racial formations; Racial capitalism; US Colonialisms
Kerri Greenidge
Mellon Associate Professor
African American History and African Diasporic History; African American Intellectual and Political Thought; African American and African Diasporic Literatures; African American and African Diasporic Histories / Literatures of New England
AB Huber
Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Mary Amanda McNeil
Mellon Assistant Professor
Black studies; Native American and Indigenous studies; Afro-Native studies; women, gender, and sexuality studies; social history; and geography.
Kamran Rastegar
Professor
Comparative literature, film studies, modern Arabic literature, modern Persian literature, memory studies, postcolonial studies
Courtney Sato
Mellon Assistant Professor
Affiliate Faculty
Amahl Bishara
Professor
Media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, ethnography of place My research revolves around expression, space, media, and settler colonialism. I am currently working on two book projects. The first, tentatively entitled "Permission to Converse: Laws, Bullets, and other Roadblocks to a Palestinian Exchange," addresses the relationship between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, two groups that are positioned slightly differently in relation to Israeli settler-colonialism. Through ethnographies of protest as well as of more everyday forms of expression, I analyze the barriers to these two groups speaking to and with each other. I argues that speech is always an embodied and emplaced act. My second ongoing project examines Palestinian popular politics in a West Bank refugee camp. It examines how Palestinians in this refugee camp strive to resist three authorities, the Israeli occupation, the Palestinian Authority administration, and the United Nations Relief Works Agency through struggles over land, water, bodies, and expression. My first book, Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press 2013) is an ethnography of production of US news during the second Palestinian Intifada. It asks what we can learn about journalism and popular political action when we place Palestinian journalists at the center of an inquiry about U.S. journalism. In addition to academic writing, I also regularly write for such outlets as Jadaliyya, Middle East Report. I have produced the documentary "Degrees of Incarceration" (2010), an hour-long documentary that explores how, with creativity and love, a Palestinian community responds to the crisis of political imprisonment. Finally, I have been involved with the production of bilingual Arabic and English children's books about refugee lives, including The Boy and the Wall.
Freeden Blume Oeur
Associate Professor
My research engages feminist and humanist insights to enrich a Sociology in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, one committed to understanding the persistence of anti-Black racism today.
Heather Curtis
Warren S. Woodbridge Professor in Comparative Religions
Global Christianity American Religious History Religion, Humanitarianism and Philanthropy Religion, Health and Healing Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Religion and Reform Movements Gender and Women's Studies in Religion
Kendra Field
Associate Professor
U.S., African American, Native American, family history and the history of genealogy
Daanika Gordon
Associate Professor
Law, the criminal legal system, and policing; racial inequality and racial formation; urban politics, cities, and space; bureaucracy and organizations; research methods
Kareem Khubchandani
Associate Professor and Interim Department Chair of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies
Diana Martinez
Assistant Professor
American architecture history, global architecture history, post-colonial studies, materiality
Lily Mengesha
Fletcher Foundation Assistant Professor of Dramatic Literature
Critical Indigenous Studies, Performance Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Pearl Robinson
Professor
Comparative Politics, Africa, African-American Politics
Adriana Zavala
Professor
Modern and Contemporary U.S. Latinx and Mexican art; Latin American art; Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
Emeriti Faculty
Jean Wu
Senior Lecturer Emerita
Asian American studies; anti-racist education; community-based action