Co-Directors
S. Charusheela: Faculty Affairs
Professor
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of Expertise: Economic Subjectivity, Gender, Development, Identity, and Postcoloniality/Globalization
Ron Krabill: Student Affairs
Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor: Communications, UW Seattle; Culture, Communication and Media Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ph.D., Sociology & Historical Studies, New School for Social Research
Areas of expertise: Social Movements, Media, Postcolonial Studies, Southern Africa, Public Scholarship
Faculty
Rebecca Aanerud: Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., English, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Feminist/Womanist Theory, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Wisdom Studies, Ethics and Social Justice Studies
Christian Anderson: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Areas of expertise: Cities and Urban Processes, Everyday Life, Inequality and Social Justice, Geography and Social Space, Ethnography
Miriam Bartha: Director of Graduate Programs, IAS
Ph.D., English, Rutgers University
Areas of expertise: Humanities, Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies
Dan Berger: Associate Professor
Ph.D., Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Social Movements, Prison Studies, Media and Cultural Studies
Lauren Berliner: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Communication, University of California, San Diego
Areas of expertise: Critical Pedagogy, Media Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Visual Studies, Digital Media Studies, Film and Media Production, Youth Media
Naomi Macalalad Bragin: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Areas of expertise: Dance, Performance Studies, Critical Black Theory, Gender and Sexuality, Performance Ethnography, Community-Based Research, Popular Culture, New Media
Bruce Burgett: Professor
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Public Culture
Shannon Cram: Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of expertise: Environmental and Health Justice, Social Studies of Science, Critical Geography, Atomic Studies
Ben Gardner: Associate Professor
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Areas of expertise: Global, Cultural and Environmental Politics, Africa, Development, Cultural Geography.
Maryam Griffin: Assistant Professor
J.D. with Critical Race Studies Specialization, UCLA School of Law
Ph.D. Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Areas of Expertise: human mobility/movement; settler colonialism and indigeneity; Palestine; social movements, people power, resistance; Critical Race Theory
Kristin Gustafson: Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. Communication, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Media and Communication Studies; Journalism History; Ethnic/Activist/Community News Production; Media archiving practices
Susan Harewood: Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Areas of expertise: Media and Communication Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Popular Music Studies.
Jeanne Heuving: Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington, English
Areas of expertise: Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cross Genre Writing.
Bruce Kochis: Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., Slavic, University of Michigan
Areas of expertise: Policy Studies, Human Rights, East European Studies.
Carrie Lanza: Lecturer
Ph.D., Social Welfare, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Community engaged scholarship, social work and welfare policy history, visual studies, community arts and social movements
Kari Lerum: Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor: Women Studies, UW Seattle
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Gender, Sexuality, Organizations, Culture, Visual Studies.
Jed Murr: Lecturer
Ph.D., English, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Popular Visual, Literary, and Sonic Cultures, Violence and Social Movements.
Yolanda Padilla: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: Theories of Race and Subject Formation, Border Studies, Study of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Americas.
Thea Quiray Tagle: Lecturer
Ph.D., Ethnic Studies, University of California- San Diego
Areas of expertise: American and Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 20th and 21st Century Art History, Cultural Studies and critical theory, Urban History
Georgia Roberts: Lecturer
Ph.D., English, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Global Hip Hop Culture, American and Comparative Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Public Scholarship
Julie Shayne: Senior Lecturer
Affiliate Associate Professor: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UW Seattle
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara
Areas of expertise: Feminism and Revolution in Latin America and the diaspora, Social Movements and Culture, Political Exile, and Critical Development Studies.
Mira Shimabukuro: Senior Lecturer
Associate Dean for Diversity and Equity
Ph.D., Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin Madison
Areas of expertise: Writing Studies; Cultural Rhetorics; Writing as Resistance; Politics of Language, Race and Identity; Literacy and Race; Japanese American Incarceration and Resistance; Critical, Liberatory, and Decolonizing pedagogies; Critical Education Studies
Amoshaun Toft: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Communications, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Discourse and Language, Media Studies, Technology and Society, Network Studies, Social Movements, Poverty and Homelessness