Chicana/o Studies

Karina Alma is interested in intertextual Latina/o narratives, comparative representations of Latinidad, and the interconnections among Latina/o cultures, especially in their transculturation.

Asian American Studies

Jolie’s interdisciplinary interests are concerned with US empire and Los Angeles. Her research analyzes how Cambodian refugees have been incorporated into the American racial landscape upon resettlement in the US.

Asian American Studies

Evyn is an interdisciplinary scholar of critical refugee studies, settler colonial studies, and transpacific studies, with an emphasis on Vietnam War refugees and Asian-Indigenous relations.

Economics

Daniel’s research focuses on labor economics, international trade and development economics.

Economics

Oleg connects theory with detailed micro-level data in order to test and quantify theoretical mechanisms, often leveraging the structure of the model for theory-based identification.

History

Miloš‘ research interests include the history of Balkan cities; the late Habsburg and Ottoman empires; capitalism; urban change; and imperial nostalgia.

History

Kevin’s research focuses on the U.S. and Korea during the Cold War.

Economics

Juliana’s primary research interests are at the intersection of Public Economics and Development. She is also interested in Labor Economics.

Political Science

Lachlan is a political scientist interested in settler colonialism, state building, and internal migration, with a regional focus on China and East Asia.

African American Studies

Sobuke’s areas of expertise are International Relations theory, African regionalism and security cooperation, and race and US foreign policy.

Asian American Studies

Loubna’s research examines the way refugee youth are forging new solidarities and linking service and political praxis as a result of multiscalar forms of dispossession, siege, and catastrophe.

Asian American Studies

Cindy’s research examines how race, migration, and culture intersect to shape health and well-being in immigrant and refugee communities.

Economics

Yotam’s work focuses on labor economics, applied econometrics and public policy.

Economics

Bernardo does empirical research in applied microeconomics, focusing primarily on law and economics and political economy.

Asian American Studies

Lee Ann’s work focuses on law and ethnography, gender violence and policing, immigration law, women of color and indigenous feminist theories

Conservation

Glenn’s field is the conservation of material culture, and his research spans from new forms of contemporary digital art to connecting diverse communities to their cultural heritage.

Political Science

Dov is a political scientist whose research focuses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli foreign policy and domestic politics, U.S.-Israel relations, American Jewish politics, and contemporary anti-Semitism.

History

Hollian is a historian of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Her research examines transformations in political and intimate economies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

African American Studies

Alden is a political and economic historian of Africa. He is particularly interested in the ways in which Africans participated in the creation of the current international order.