Our affiliated faculty are drawn from disciplines throughout the humanities and social sciences, including Anthropology, Geography, History, English, The Media School, Art History, Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, and the School of Public Health. This enables our students to develop deep research connections with specific subject area experts across campus, working collaboratively and creatively to make professional connections and produce original work.
Associate Professor, The Media School
Research Interests
African cinema; Nollywood; globalization and film; intersections of print and electronic media; postcolonial artistic and intellectual traditions; cultural theory; writing
Associate Professor, Geography
Research Interests
water resources
Associate Professor, History
Research Interests
African American; diaspora and race; film, media and popular culture; built environment; religion
Professor, Religious Studies
Co-Director, Center for Religion and the Human
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
Cold War cultural relations between Spanish America and the U.S.; Cold War cultural diplomacy; the Cold War history of humanistic disciplines in the U.S. university; comparative literatures of the americas; Faulkner and Spanish American literature;the Mexican intellectual infrastructure
Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, American Studies
Research Interests
intersection of cultural studies theories of power, subjectivity, and ideology with questions of political economy
Assistant Professor, Art History
Research Interests
modern and contemporary art; critical race theory; urbanism and art; global art markets and cross-cultural exchange/citizens and national imaginaries of social conflict; art and theory of the African Diaspora; contemporary art historiography
Professor, Anthropology
Faculty Associate, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT)
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American literature and culture; border studies; political theory; psychoanalysis
Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Professor, English
Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Associate Professor, Borns Jewish Studies Program
Affiliated Faculty, Gender Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Adjunct Faculty, History
Director, Asian American Studies Program
Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Research Interests
religious music in the African diaspora; music of the "Black Pacific"; Western European art music; global pop music; masculinities and men's studies; voice studies; gender and sexuality; music industry and arts entrepreneurship; gastromusicology; ecomusicology; future studies; music, religion and the media
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Research Interests
Interdisciplinary creative scholarship, public feeling and affect theory, uncanny conspiracy theory, neurodivergence in culture, human/non-human animal interaction, indigenous film and literature.
Associate Professor, Art History
Tanner-Opperman Chair in Honor of Roy Sieber
Chair, Recreation Park and Tourism Studies
Associate Professor, Recreation Park and Tourism Studies
Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Research Interests
Gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature, and ethnography
Assistant Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
Assistant Professor, Latino Studies
Assistant Professor, American Studies
Assistant Professor, Latino Studies Program
Research Interests
race and feminist theory; Indigenous, Latinx and Latin American studies; visual culture; popular music
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Research Interests
colonial Latin American literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; critical race theory; mestizaje; miscegenation; feminism; literary and cultural theory
Professor, American Studies
Professor, History
Research Interests
race in the Americas; racial theory; transnational method; popular culture; Brazil; Latin American studies; history; mass incarceration; the cold war; postcolonial and queer theory; cultural studies
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Research Interests
religion; identity; politics; tourism and cultural heritage; Brazil; Latin America and the Caribbean; The African Diaspora
Associate Professor, American Studies
Associate Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies
On British Academy Global Professorship until 2024
Research Interests
gothic literature in the African diaspora; American gothic literature; horror film studies; twentieth century American literature
Professor, Gender Studies
Professor, Asian American Studies
Director, Race, Migration, and Indigeneity
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society
Affiliate Faculty, American Studies
The College of Arts