- Erika Abad -- Ph.D. candidate (LOA '09-10)
Imperialism; globalization; transnational environmental justice; Puerto Rican social movements. - Brett Atwood -- Ph.D. Critical ethnographic study of online communties like Second Life; GLBT representations in mass media.
- Marisol Badilla -- Ph.D. [on leave]
Chicano/a and Native Mexican art and culture; women in Mexico to US immigration. - Marquita Beberman -- M.A.
Health issues for women of color, especially Latinas. - Stephen Bischoff -- Ph.D. candidate
Fillipino/Fillipino-American Studies - specifically, apathy towards Fil/Fil-Am social movements; Race and Ethnic Studies. - Adriana Solis Black -- Ph.D. candidate
- Martin Boston -- M.A.
Contemporary African American culture; hip-hop politics; comparative ethnic studies. - Holly Campbell -- M.A. [on leave]
Gender, race, and cultural politics of the concept "white trash." - Kathy Collins -- Ph.D.
Visual culture - representation of the body in the virtual and technological realms; race, gender, disability and sexual identity formation and negotiations; racial and ethnic studies.
[Cherokee] - Patricia Cox -- M.A.
Using poetry/prose/folk arts/songs/myth to explore experiences of working class Scandinavian women immigrants to the Northwest in early 20th century. - Leola Dublin -- Ph.D. [ABD] (WSU Vancouver)
My scholarly work examines the connections between contemporary representations of Black women, and more specifically, Black women's bodies and the larger structures of teleological power within the context of the United States. I articulate these connections and then explore their potential impact on identity development in Black adolescent girls. - Katherine Ericsson -- M.A.
Conceptual connections between the rhetoric of law and geopolitics; narratives of nationalism in the Americas. - Ayano Ginoza -- Ph.D. candidate
[indigenous Okinawan]
Environmental justice studies. Indigenous/Native studies. US military impact on the environment and culture of Okinawa.
[Indigenous Okinawan] - Andrea Hall-Spencer -- M.A. candidate (LOA '09-10)
- Michelle Jack -- Ph.D. [ABD]
[Okanagan]
First Nations/Native American Identitiesl Indigineous studies; Art/Contemporary Native Art; Indigenous Women; Pop Culture depictions of First Nations and other Indigenous peoples, women, and "others." - Michael Johnson -- Ph.D. candidate
Master Liberal Arts (Social & Political Thought), University of South Florida
Queer(ing) Latino-American masculinities within American popular culture ("reality TV"); Foucauldian analyses of "naturalizing" forces on queer sex acts; ethnicity and socio-political queer activism
- Susan Kay -- Ph.D. [ABD]
Intersections of gender and class in literature written by women, primarily the 18th century; contemporary marginalized literature written by women; feminist literary criticism. - Frank King -- Ph.D. candidate
Contemporary African Amercan culture and the impact of the prison industrial complex. - Mary Jo Klinker -- Ph.D. candidate
Feminist and gender theory; sexual division of labor; political economy; empire and globalization. - Ung-Kyoung Kwak -- Ph.D. candidate
Pop culture; mass media; Asian Americans, especially as depicted in Hollywood movies. - Shawn LameBull-- Ph.D. candidate[Yakama Nation]
Tribal sovereignty and Indian law; cross-cultural analysis of table top RPGs and MMORPGs; representation of "Indians" in popular culture, especially. - Regina McMenomy -- Ph.D. candidate
(WSU Vancouver)
Popular culture, esp. images of female action heroes in film, televsion and video games. - Kelvin Monroe -- [Interdisciplinary Ph.D.]
Political erotics of Black creative expression, Black advant-garde; performative nature of racism. - Xuan-Truong T Nguyen -- Ph.D. candidate
Digital diversity; cultural aspects of multimedia and web technolgoies; adaptations of women and low income minority communties to technology; Vietnamese-American immigrants. - Jody Pepion -- Ph.D. [ABD] [Blackfeet]
Colonialism and indigenous community building; empowering indigenous women. - Sompathana Phitsanoukanh -- Ph.D. candidate
Southeast Asian immigrants to the US, espeically Cambodian and Laotian women; digital diversity. - Loren Redwood -- Ph.D. [ABD]
Intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality; queering capitalism; effects of globalization on poor and working-class women - nationally and internationally. - Robert Richardson -- Ph.D. candidate
Queer studies; rhetorics of punk; pyscho-social identity formations; Foucauldian analyses of power, resistance, and popular culture. - Marc Robinson -- M.A. candidate
Social movements; 19th and 20th century US history; African diaspora; comparative ethnic studies; Washington state history; feminist theory. - Keven Shipman -- Ph.D. candidate
[Shoalwater Bay tribe]
Narrative history and cultural analysis in Northwest white-Native relations. - Margo Tamez -- Ph.D. [ABD]
[Lipan-Nde'Apache & Basque (Land Grant), El Calaboz, Texas]
Subaltern indigenous & indigena-mestiza feminisms at the Mexico-U.S. International Boundary Line specific to the Sonora-Arizona militarized corridor; indigenous migration in late capitalism under paramilitary warfare; hegemonic indigenism.
Links: Bio • Raven Eye (2007) • Naked Wanting (2003) - Joy Taylor -- Ph.D. candidate
- David Warner -- Ph.D. candidate
American "Indian" tribal sovereignty; theorizing Indigenous identities; "indian" education. - Sky Wilson -- Ph.D. candidate (WSU Vancouver)
Black nationalist social movements, esp Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.