- 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 -- MA
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 -- MA
Contemporary African American culture; hip-hop politics; comparative ethnic studies. - Holly Campbell -- MA [on leave]
Gender, race, and cultural politics of the concept "white trash." - Kathy Collins -- PhD
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 -- MA
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. candidate (WSU-Vancouver)
Deconstruction of the "All-American Beauty": an analysis of adolescent girls and mass mediated constructs of gender, sexuality, race and beauty; the role of open source software in bridging the Digital Divide; resistant writing and orality in literature of the Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean. - Katherine Ericsson -- MA
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 -- MA 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 -- MA 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.