The following links will go to the professor's area of interest. The headings for each area are only a partial listing of their research interests. You are recommended to explore all the brief summaries in the faculty page.
Chicano/Latino studies, Racial and Ethnic Studies
José Alamillo's research includes: Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies; Ethnic Labor and Working Class History and Culture; Race, Gender in American Sport. His research agenda focuses on race, gender, labor, leisure, and sport among Mexican Americans in Southern California, the Pacific Northwest and the American West.
Philosophy, Race Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo's research includes: Theories of race/racism and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, embodiment/theories of the body, popular culture, film, critical pedagogy, contemporary continental political philosophy.
Contemporary Indigenous Issues
Kim Christen's research focuses on global indigenous movements, particularly contemporary indigenous alliances in Australia. This includes global issues such as sovereignty, land rights, cultural tourism, intellectual property rights and digital "remix" within indigenous communities. Most recently, she has been collaborating with indigenous communities in Australia and an IT group to produce an Indigenous Digital Archive software program to facilitate culturally appropriate archival practices.
Popular Culture, Literature and Performativity
Lisa Guerrero's research interests include: African American cultural movements, African American masculinity, race and popular culture, gender and sexuality, Ethnic American literature and memoir, theories and literatures of the African diaspora, and racial identity formation in the U.S. She is especially interested in the performative nature of racial, national, and gender identities, the reproduction of hegemonies within racial protest movements, and the uses of satire and irony in literature and popular culture.
Through his research, Rich King examines the racial politics of culture, addressing such subjects as the ongoing controversy over Native American mascots, popular depictions of racialized groups in movies, museums, and the media, political struggles over representation, naming, and history, race and sports, particularly the significance of athletics in Native America, and the social construction of racial groups and ethnic identities.
Media Culture, Critical Sports Studies, Popular Culture and Representation
David Leonard's research interests include race and the NBA, critical sports studies; the prison industrial complex; racial discourse, race, nation and video games; hip-hop; and white nationalists and media culture.
Puerto Rican Studies, Latina Feminism and Race and Popular Culture
Carmen Lugo-Lugo's research interests include Puerto Rican Studies, Latina Feminism in the US, feminist theory, and issues of colonialism/imperialism, race and popular culture, race relations and economic inequality.
Yolanda Flores Niemann's research interests include effects of stereotypes across various domains, including identity and risky behavior, the psychological effects of tokenism, overcoming obstacles to Latina/o higher education, identity issues from Mexican to Mexican American, and the use of stereotypes as justification for discrimination.
Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Discourse Theory
Rory Ong's research interests include Asian American autobiography, Asian American literature, Asian Americans and popular culture, model minority discourse, transnational adoption, critical theory, classical Greek rhetoric, the early sophists, enlightenment rhetoric.
John Streamas' research interests include racism, poverty, narrative, time and space, and social justice.
