Core Faculty

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.

Name	Title/Interest	Email
Laura Hyun Yi Kang	Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies - Undergraduate Director  Published Books	laura.kang@uci.edu
Mahaliah Little	Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies	mahaliah.little@uci.edu
Rudo Mudiwa	Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies - Graduate Director	rmudiwa@uci.edu
Catherine Sameh	Department Chair and Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies  Published Books	csameh@uci.edu
Jeanne Scheper	Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies  Published Books
Jonathan Alexander	Chancellor's Professor of English & Informatics Associate Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education Editor, College Composition and Communication 611C Aldrich Hall 153 Krieger Hall 949-824-1955  Published Books	jfalexan@uci.edu
Victoria Bernal	Professor, Department of Anthropology	vbernal@uci.edu
Nasrin Rahimieh	Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities, Comparative Literature  Published Books	nasrin.rahimieh@uci.edu
Heidi Tinsman	Professor, Department of History  Published Books	hetinsma@uci.edu

Emeriti

Jennifer Terry

Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies   Published Books

jterry@uci.edu