Faculty
Director
Ron Krabill
Faculty Director
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
Christian Anderson
Associate 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
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Miriam Bartha
Director of Graduate Programs, IAS
Ph.D., English, Rutgers University
Areas of expertise: Humanities, Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies
Dan Berger
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
Associate 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
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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
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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
S. Charusheela
Professor
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Areas of Expertise: Economic Subjectivity, Gender, Development, Identity, and Postcoloniality/Globalization
Ching-In Chen
Assistant Professor
Ph.D, English (with concentration in Creative Writing; certificate in Women’s Studies), University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee
M.F.A., Writing for the Performing Arts and Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside
Areas of expertise: Hybrid & Cross-Genre Writing, Documentary Poetics, Speculative Poetics, Community (Counter-)Memory, Public & Creative Scholarship, Critical Ethnic Studies, Queer and Trans 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
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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.
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
Associate Teaching Professor
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.
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
Mira Shimabukuro
Teaching Professor
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
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Amoshaun Toft
Associate 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
Former Faculty
Miriam Bartha
Director of Graduate Programs, IAS
Ph.D., English, Rutgers University
Areas of expertise: Humanities, Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies
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