UC Irvine Student Center
Photo Name Title Specialty Email
Srimayee Basu
Sri Basu Assistant Professor of English

18th- and 19th-Century American, African American Studies, Anglophone, Postcolonial, and Diasporic, Critical Theory

srimayeb@uci.edu
Benamou
Catherine Benamou Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies
Published Books
Latin American and Latinx Cinema and Media, Transational Flows & Diasporic Audiences, Orson Welles & Authorial itineraries cbenamou@uci.edu
Bernal
Victoria Bernal Associate Professor of Anthropology Feminist theory, Gender, & Civil society vbernal@uci.edu
Chaturvedi
Vinayak Chaturvedi Associate Professor of History
Published Books
South Asia & Social and Intellectual History vinayak@uci.edu
Jordie
Elizabeth Jordie Davies Assistant Professor of Political Science

Black politics and political thought, U.S. social movements, solidarity, Black feminism

ejdavies@uci.edu
Fujita-Rony
Dorothy Fujita-Rony Associate Professor of Asian American Studies
Published Books

American Studies, U.S. History, & Asian American Studies

dfr@uci.edu
Christopher Harris
Christopher Harris

Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies

Black Studies, Black Political Thought, Black Critical Theory, Black Culture and Aesthetics, Social Movements, Political Theory, Ethnography, Cultural Studies

christopher.paul.harris@uci.edu
Jeon
Joseph Jeon Professor of English
Published Books
Asian/American Literature, Film, & Poetry jjjeon@uci.edu
Johnson
Victoria E. Johnson Professor of Film & Media Studies
Published Books
Critical History/Theory of U.S. Television and Film, Cultural Studies, & Cultural Geography v.e.johnson@uci.edu
Mahaliah
Mahaliah A. Little Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Black Feminist Theory, Literary and Cultural Criticism, Sexual Violence Narratives, Black Women’s Literature (Fiction and Memoir), Trauma Narratives, Sexuality Studies littlema@uci.edu
Theodore
Theodore Martin Associate Professor of English
Published Books
20th-21st Century Fiction, Popular Genres, & Literary History theodore.martin@uci.edu
Mary
Mary McThomas Associate Professor of Political Science

immigration, theories of citizenship, feminist political theory, gender and politics

mary.mcthomas@uci.edu

Millward
Jessica Millward Associate Professor of History Early America, Slavery & Gender, African Diaspora millward@uci.edu
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Cole Morgan Assistant Professor of English African American Literature and Visual Culture, Narrative Form, & Critical Race Theory morganc2@uci.edu
Davin
Davin Phoenix Assistant Professor of Political Science Race, emotion, opinion, behavior, communication, & policy dphoenix@uci.edu
Quintana
Isabela Quintana Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, race and gender, & borderlands and empire isaq@uci.edu
Schwab
Gabriele Schwab Chancellor's Professor of Comparative Literature
Published Books
Critical theory, Psychoanalysis, & Cultural studies gmschwab@uci.edu
  Damien Sojoyner Assistant Professor of Anthropology Anti-Carceral Studies, Education, & Urban Anthropology damien.sojoyner@uci.edu
Varzi
Roxanne Varzi Associate Professor of Anthropology and Film & Media Studies Anthropology, Multi-modal and visual Iran rvarzi@uci.edu