Annette Reed, Ph.D.

Department Chair

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

Brian Baker, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of Native American Studies

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Martin L. Boston, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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

Anthony Burris, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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

Giselle Cunanan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tues. 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 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: Wed. 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. via 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

• 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

Timothy Fong, Ph.D.

Professor

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Clarence George III, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. & By Email Request

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

William Gow, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: In Person Drop In: Tuesday & Thursday 12:15pm - 1pm or zoom appointment.

• 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.

Associate Professor, Director of Pan African Studies

• Office Hours: Tues./Thurs. 12-1:20pm & Tuesdays @ 2:50-3:50pm

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Nancy Huante-Tzintzun, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Tuesday's 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. Via Zoom or by appointment

• 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

Rachel Lim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: M/W 9-11am

• 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: Tues. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. via Zoom; Wed. 12 p.m. - 1p.m. AMD 562B

• 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, Chair of 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

Andrea Smith-Moore, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• 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

Rose Soza War Soldier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Esaktima Center M/W 9am-12pm (in person with a mask or via Zoom) or Request Via 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

Maria Elena Vargas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Jasmine Wade, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

• Office Hours: Mon. 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.; Wed. 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

• 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

Rashad Baadqir

Lecturer

• Office Hours: M/W: 11-12:30pm

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Guadalupe Arellanes Castro

Lecturer

• 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 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: M: 10am-1pm or by appointment

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

Kirin Rajagopalan

Lecturer

• Specialty & Interests: Ethnic Studies

Iris Ruiz

Lecturer

• Office Hours: M/W 1-2pm

Amrik Singh, Ph.D.

Lecturer

• Office Hours: Tues. 6:20pm-7:20pm, zoom link for office hours: https://csus.zoom.us/j/6479943728

• 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

• 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: Via Zoom, Mondays & Wednesdays, 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., & by appointment. Drop ins welcome.

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

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