Our core faculty members have been awarded grants, teaching awards, and nationally competitive post-doctoral fellowships. Recognized as innovators in the field, the Department ’s core faculty have published in top university presses, contributed to foremost journals, and are regularly invited to give scholarly presentations at universities in the U.S. and around the world.

Our core faculty have affiliations with Anthropology, Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, History, International Studies, Law, Theater, the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies. We are also affiliated with the Critical Theory Institute, the Center for Asian Studies, the Center for Ethnography, the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, the Working Group on Law and Society, and the Science and Technology Studies Working Group. In addition, two new Working Groups in Middle East and African Studies and in Transnational and Transoceanic Networks were initiated in part by our faculty.

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Laura Hyun Yi Kang

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Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies - Undergraduate Director
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laura.kang@uci.edu

Mahaliah Little

Mahaliah Little
Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies mahaliah.little@uci.edu
Rudo Mudiwa
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Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies - Graduate Director rmudiwa@uci.edu

Catherine Sameh 

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Department Chair and Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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csameh@uci.edu

Jeanne Scheper

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Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies
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scheper@uci.edu

Jennifer Terry

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Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies 
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jterry@uci.edu
Jonathan Alexander
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Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics
Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education
Editor, College Composition and Communication
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153 Krieger Hall
949-824-1955

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jfalexan@uci.edu

Victoria Bernal 

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Professor, Department of Anthropology vbernal@uci.edu

 

 

Nasrin Rahimieh 

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Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, Comparative Literature
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nasrin.rahimieh@uci.edu
Heidi Tinsman
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Professor, Department of History
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hetinsma@uci.edu