Meet Us
Staff
Annette Reed, Ph.D.
Department Chair

- Location: Amador Hall 463
- Phone: (916) 278-6646
- alreed@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, California Native People & Nations, Native American Women, Native American People & History, Native American & Institutionalization, Chicana Labor, Native American Studies
Palesa Mosupyoe, MSP
Interim Administrative Support Coordinator II

- Location: Amador Hall 463
- Phone: (916) 278-6646
- palesa.mosupyoe@csus.edu
Faculty Tenure Track
Brian Baker, Ph.D. Director of Native American Studies
Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 563C
- Phone: (916) 278-7564
- baker@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Martin L. Boston, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador 563A
- martin.boston@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in office and via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Black Diaspora Studies, South Africa, African America, Exile, Cultural Production, Pan-Africanism, Black Internationalism, Comparative Racial Politics & History, Critical Ethnic Studies
Julie Figueroa, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 563D
- Phone: (916) 278-7569
- figueroa@csus.edu
- Office Hours: W 1:00 - 4:00p
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Critical Mentoring, Educational Access & Success, Higher Education, Teaching, Learning & Qualitative Research among First Generation College Student: Chicana/o & Latina/o populations
Timothy Fong, Ph.D.
Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 462B
- Phone: (916) 278-6802
- tfong01@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Mon. 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Clarence George III, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador 462C
- clarence.george@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Thur. 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. & by request via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Afrocentric pedagogy, African historiography, Classical & Early Civilizations
William Gow, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador 554A
- william.gow@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Drop In: Mon. & Wed. 9:50 a.m. -10:20 a.m. Appointment: Tues. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. & Fri. 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Asian American Film, Asian American History, Community Studies, Oral History, History of California & the Pacific World, Race & Visual Culture, Critical Pedagogy, K-12 Asian American Studies
Ricky Green, Ph.D. Director of Pan African Studies
Associate Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 562A
- Phone: (916) 278-3359
- greenr@csus.edu
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Bao Lo, Ph.D. Director of Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 562B
- Phone: (916) 278-6646
- lo@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m; Wed. 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. & by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Asian American Studies, Hmong American Studies, Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, Decolonial Epistemologies, Community Organizing, Student Activism
Andrea Moore, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 460B
- Phone: (916) 278-6344
- dreamoore@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Tue. & Thur. 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Pan-African Studies, Hip Hop and Social Movements, African American Film, Sacred Womanism Studies, Critical Anti-Race Pedagogical Initiatives, Black Visual & Media Culture
Elvia Ramirez, Ph.D. Director of Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 462A
- Phone: (916) 278-5856
- eramirez@csus.edu
- Website
- Office Hours: Tues. 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.; Wed. 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Chicanx/Latinx education, Graduate education, Social inequality, Intersectionality, Latinx migration
Annette Reed, Ph.D.
Professor, Chair of Ethnic Studies

- Location: Amador Hall 462C
- Phone: (916) 278-6363
- alreed@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., Wed. 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., EAB appointment day or by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, California Native People & Nations, Native American Women, Native American People & History, Native American & Institutionalization, Chicana Labor, Native American Studies
Rose Soza War Soldier, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador 554C
- Phone: (916) 278-6646
- rose.sozawarsoldier@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon., Wed., & Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. drop in & by appointment via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, California Indian Studies, American Indian Activism, Indigenous Feminism, Indigenous Futurism, Social & Cultural History, Politics, Education, & Social Justice
Maria Elena Vargas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 562C
- Phone: (916) 278-6619
- Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
- Office Hours: Wed. 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. & by appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Wendi Yamashita, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

- Location: Amador 554B
- w.yamashita@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. & Tues. 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Japanese American Studies, Carceral Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Memory Studies, Oral History
Lecturers
Rashad Baadqir
Lecturer

- Location: Amador 462D
- Phone: (916) 278 3536
- rashad.baadqir@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Mon. 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Tues. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Amber Bill, M.A.
Lecturer

- Location: Amador 462D
- amber.bill@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. & Thur. 12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Guadalupe Arellanes Castro
Lecturer

- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Darryl Freeman, MA, ABD
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Online via appointment
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Biracial/Multicultural Identity Politics, Native American/African American Relationships, Cross Cultural Aging politics, Historical Minority politics in the U.S.
Nancy Huante Tzintzun, Ph.D.
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Wed. 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. & Fri. 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. via Calendly link
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Impact in K-20, Women of Color Feminisms & Anzaldúan, Theory, Chicanx/Latinx Youth & Education, Decolonial Feminisms, Critical Qualitative Research Methods, Chicanx/Latinx Methodology
Marie Mallare J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.
Lecturer

- Location: Amador 562D
- m.mallare-jimenez@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Via Zoom: https://csus.zoom.us/profmj
- Specialty & Interests: Race & Ethnic Politics, International Relations, Asian Americans & the Law, Immigration & Deportation, U.S. Constitutional Law, International Law, Racial Justice Studies, Filipino American Studies
Sanyu Mulira
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Wed. 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Francophone history, Women's history in Black Atlantic: Martinique, Guadeloupe, Senegal, 20th century, Literary/Cultural Movements.
Amrik Singh, Ph.D.
Lecturer

- Location: Mariposa Hall 2023
- asingh@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. 6:20 p.m. - 7:20 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Sikh American Studies, African American Literature, Anthropological Linguistics, Semiotics & Semiology, British & American Literature
Silvia Toscano, Ph.D.
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Wed. 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Lorraine Wilkins, Ph.D.
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Fri. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
- Specialty & Interests: Pan-African Studies, Critical Race Theories, African Americans Psychology, Hip Hop Culture, Homelessness, Recidivism, Gangs & Community Restoration, College Success
Ayanna Yonemura, Ph.D.
Lecturer

- Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. via Zoom
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Racism, Public Policy, Urban Planning in the US & Germany, Feminism, Nationalism & Migration, African Studies, African American & Asian American Histories of LA & Sacramento
Booker Cook
Lecturer

- Location: Amador 562D
- tcook@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Via Zoom as needed
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies
Faculty Emeritus/Retired
James Sobredo, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor

- Location: Amador Hall 463
- Phone: (916) 278-3536
- sobredo@csus.edu
- Office Hours: Tues. 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. via Zoom appointment only
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Filipino American Immigration History, Global Migration of Filipinos, Filipinos in Barcelona & Madrid, Photo-Documentary
Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.
Professor - FERP

- Location: Amador Hall 561C
- Phone: (916) 278-6817
- cameronwedding@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies
Greg Mark, Ph.D.
Professor - FERP

- Location: Amador Hall 563B
- Phone: (916) 278-3783
- markgr@csus.edu
- Office Hours: TR 2:30 - 4:00p
- Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies