Brian Baker, Ph.D.

Department Chair

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Brian Baker, Ph.D.

Professor, Chair

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Martin L. Boston, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9-10:30 am or by appointment on Zoom

• Specialty & Interests: Black Diaspora Studies, South Africa, African America, Exile, Cultural Production, Pan-Africanism, Reparations & Reconciliation, Comparative Racial Politics & History, Critical Ethnic Studies

Anthony Burris, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Monday 11:30 am-2:30 pm

• Specialty & Interests: Ancestor repatriation, Cultural Site Protection, History, Truth-Telling, Human Rights

Giselle Cunanan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tues. 12-3 pm. Please contact for in-person/Zoom appointment

• Specialty & Interests: Critical Ethnic Studies, Filipino/a/x American Studies, Asian American Studies, Race & Empire, Abolitionist University Studies, Social Movements for Ethnic Studies

Julie Figueroa, Ph.D.

Professor

• Office Hours: Wednesday 9:30-11 am & 1-2:30 pm on Zoom or by appointment

• 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

David Flores, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Monday 12-1 pm; Wednesday 10-11 am & 12-1 pm

• Specialty & Interests: Chicanx Studies, Latinx Religion and Spirituality, Religion and Social Movements, the Chicanx Movement, Latinx Social and Cultural History, Latinx LA, Latinx Arts and Activism, Oral Histories

Clarence George III, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday 11 am - 1 pm & by email request

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Afrocentric pedagogy, African historiography, Classical & Early Civilizations

William Gow, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: In Person: Tuesday & Thursday 12:15-1 pm; on Zoom Wednesday 8:3-9 am, Monday 3-4 pm.

• 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

Vanessa Guzman

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Monday 4-5 pm; Wednesday 12:45-2:45 pm

Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday 12-3 pm on Zoom or by appointment (https://calendly.com/nancy-huante/15min)

• 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

Melina Juarez

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: In person: Tuesday & Thursday 12:15-1:45pm and by appointment

• Specialty & Interests: Chicanx Studies, Chicana & WoC Feminisms, Spirituality, Transformational Health, Decolonial Politics, Feminist & Queer Research Methods

Rachel Lim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Specialty & Interests: Asian American Studies, Migration and Diaspora, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Asia & the Américas, Comparative Race & Ethnicity, Korean/American Studies, Citizenship & Belonging, Global Religions

Bao Lo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Asian American Studies

• Office Hours: Tuesday 11 am-1 pm on Zoom; Wednesday 12-1pm in person

• Specialty & Interests: Asian American Studies, Hmong American Studies, Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, Decolonial Epistemologies, Community Organizing, Student Activism

Elvia Ramirez, Ph.D.

Professor

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Chicanx/Latinx education, Graduate education, Social inequality, Intersectionality, Latinx migration

Annette Reed, Ph.D.

Professor, Ethnic Studies

• Office Hours: EAB appointments only

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, California Native People & Nations, Native American Women, Native American People & History, Native American & Institutionalization, Chicana Labor, Native American Studies

Nicole Richards

Assistant Professor

Rose Soza War Soldier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Director of Native American Studies

• Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday 10-11 am and 12-1:30 pm (in person 554C Amador Hall or in the Esak’timá Center with a mask or via Zoom), please schedule an appointment (https://calendly.com/rose-sozawarsoldier-csus). If those times do not work, please send me an email.

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, California Indian Studies, American Indian Activism, Indigenous Feminism, Indigenous Futurism, Social & Cultural History, Politics, Education, & Social Justice

Erika Salinas

Assistant Professor

Andrea Smith-Moore, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 9 am-3 pm

• 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

Maria Elena Vargas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Friday 1-2 pm and by appointment, Friday on Zoom @ 3 pm

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Jasmine Wade, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday 11 am-1 pm; Thursday 3-4 pm

• Specialty & Interests: Afrofuturism, Black & Indigenous science fiction & fantasy, Black feminisms, & Comparative Ethnic Studies

Wendi Yamashita, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tues. 1 - 4 p.m. Zoom

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Japanese American Studies, Carceral Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Memory Studies, Oral History

Guadalupe Arellanes Castro

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Rashad Baadqir

Lecturer

• Office Hours: M/W: 11-12:30pm

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Booker Cook, Ed.D.

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Pan African Studies, Counter Narrative Research, Attrition and Retention Rates for Marginalized Students.

Cibonay Jimenez

Lecturer

Kevyn Lorenzana

Lecturer

• Office Hours: Zoom: M,W,F 12-1pm & 4-5:30pm or by appointment

Marie Mallare J.D., LL.M., S.J.D.

Lecturer

• Office Hours: By appointment on Fridays, 10am-1pm via zoom

• 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

Miah McClinton

Lecturer

• Office Hours: Monday 3-4pm and by appointment

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Pan African Studies, Black feminism, Black geography, Community sovereignty

Kirin Rajagopalan

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Amrik Singh, Ph.D.

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Sikh American Studies, African American Literature, Anthropological Linguistics, Semiotics & Semiology, British & American Literature

Jason Keone Tena-Encarnacion

Lecturer

• Office Hours: M/F: 12-12:45pm

• Specialty & Interests: Critical Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Multiracial Studies, Urban Indigenous Communities, Aloha as Radical Kinship

Silvia Toscano, Ph.D.

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Lorraine Wilkins, Ph.D.

Lecturer

• Office Hours: On Zoom: Monday & Wednesday 3-4pm and 5-6:30pm on Zoom;

• 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: Tuesday & Thursday 12-1pm, in person and on Zoom. Wednesday 2-3pm, on Zoom, & by appointment.

• Specialty & Interests: Urban Planning, Public Policy, Feminism, Black Sociology, Comparative Black & Asian American Studies, US & German Refugee Politics, African Studies, President Trump

Ricky Green, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director of Pan African Studies

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Rita Cameron-Wedding, Ph.D.

Professor - FERP

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies, Women's Studies

Greg Mark, D.C.J.

Professor - FERP

• Office Hours: M/W: 10:50am-11:50am or by appointment

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies