Dissertation Stage

• Christina Abreu – Cuban-American history, literature, and culture; Cuban exile communities and identities
• Maritza Cardenas – Latina/o studies; 20th century American ethnic literature; Central American studies; U.S. third world feminism
• Jason Chang – United States empire; transnationalism and global networks of political culture, especially in early 20th century trans-pacific Chinese America
• Alyssa Chen – 19th century American literature; animal rights; the family
• Brian Chung – Asian American studies, CHinese/Chinese American studies, Silicon Valley, U.S.-China relations post 1978, cultural festivals, Asian-retail spaces, residential vernacular architecture, logics of exchange, consumption
• Tyler Cornelius – American Indian history, environmental history, recreation and tourism in the American West, popular culture and public history
• Puspa Damai – Postcolonial theory, transnational American studies
• Sam Erman – Law, race, gender, cultural studies
• Margot Finn – Globalization, cultural studies, political economy and media
• Charles Gentry – Black cultural studies; film and media studies, performance studies
• Sarah Gould – Ethnic imagery in popular culture, Chicana/o popular culture, archival and museum studies, Texas, the Southwest
• Tayana Hardin – African-American history and literature
• Sally Howell – Immigration and citizenship; diaspora and ethnic social formations; folklore; identity politics; Arab American aesthetic practices
• Joanne Hsu – Post colonial literature, empire, immigration, Asian American studies
• Laura Hymson – 20th century U.S. cultural history; the relationship between popular culture and historical constructions of gender, race, and sexuality; gender studies and feminist theory; queer theory; cultural studies and cultural theory; advertising and visual culture; U.S. imperialism
• Sharon Lee – Korean/Korean American history, Asian Pacific Islander American studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, film and video
• John Low – Native American histories and cultures, Pacific-Islander American studies, Red Power Movement, revitalization and reimagination movements, law and public policy, federal Indian law, identity and representation, intellectual property and material cultures, sovereignty and counter-colonialism, museum studies
• Wendy Michael – Work; technology; science & technology studies; factory tours, Cold War thinking; visual history; post 1945 America
• Erik Morales – Latino Studies; cultural productions and commodification; authenticity; racial conflicts and alliances; 20th century history
• Afia Ofori-Mensa – Black and Asian literature and culture; second-generation American narratives; immigrant mother and American-born daughter relationships in literature; ethnography; Black and Asian American women’s beauty issues; beauty pageants and national/community identity
• Alex Olson – Modernism, 19th and early 20th century American cultural history, Native American Studies, photography and visual history
• Kiri Sailiata – Comparative indigineity, military, gender
• Dean Saranillio – U.S. Imperialism, distinctions between indigenous peoples and minority groups, Filipinos in Hawaii in relationship to the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement, historical amnesia, differential inclusion of Filipinos within colonized Hawaii
• Kelly Sisson – 19th century American History, Latino/a History, labor history
• Ryan Snyder –American cultural studies; 19th and 20th century American literature; fiction writing and poetics; American and European intellectual and cultural history; popular music, hip-hop musicianship; aesthetics, pedagogy, and cultural theory; media studies and philosophy of technology; congnitive science, systems theory, and cybernetics
• Matthew Stiffler - Arab American Studies, Arab Christian, and religion
• Shanesha Tatum - African Diaspora and music, slam poetry, literature and cultural studies
• Lani Teves – Colonialism, race, ethnicity, punk music, youth culture
• Wilson Valentin - Cultural studies; cultural history; Puerto Rican popular culture (s) and music; Puerto Rican Studies; Latino studies; Latin jazz; oral history and collective memory
• Luis Vazquez – Latino popular music; popular religion
• Kiara Vigil - Comparative autobiographies, gender, Native American cultural products, and visual culture
• Lee Ann Wang – Women of Color Feminisms. Critical Race Theory, Asian American Women and Immigration Law, Gender and Sexual Violence Law, Social Movements
• Matthew Wittmann – American cultural history; 19th century popular/mass culture; Pacific history; cultural studies and theory
• Aimee VonBokel – Comparative African-American & Native American indigeneity, pop culture
• Stephen Wisniewski – Museums, tourism, nostalgia, visual culture, and how memory works

Pre-Dissertation Stage

• Yamil Avivi  – Queer diasporas; the queering of space; the intersection between race, nationalism, and sexuality; Hispanic/Brazilian LGBTQ immigrant identities; ethnography; socio-cultural transnational dynamics in immigrant communities; and queer homeland activism
• Robert Bell – The built environment, identity, movement, and critical theory
• Rabia Bell – Gender and violence
• Matthew Blanton – Cultural history, race, masculinity
• Jason Coráñez Bolton – Poststructuralism, Postmodernism, Feminist philosophical thought and theory, feminist and native epistemology,Ethnoepistemology, queer of color critique, theories of performativity, Standpoint Theory, Post-Colonial Theory, Comparativism, Hispanic literature of the Philippines (José Rizal), Spanish and U.S. Empire, and Latin American Independence literatures
• Jesse Carr – Sexual and gender violence, racial formation, critical masculinities, right wing political movements.
• Joe Cialdella - Urban/environmental history and culture, landscape studies, architecture, space and place, arts/visual culture, memory, museum studies and public history
• Paul Farber – 20th century American cultural history; queer theory; race and masculinity, hip hop; fashion and performance studies
• Chris Finley – Comparative African-American & Native American indigeneity, pop culture. 
• Jessi Gan – Transgender studies of color, oral history
• Sarah Gothie – Culinary history, gender, material culture and nostalgia; creativity in everyday life as a site of identity construction, autobiographical discourse and resistance
• David Green – 20th Century United States Cultural/ Social History, History of Homo/Sexuality, Queer Studies, Theory, & Queer of Color Critique, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Critical Race Theory
• Elizabeth Harmon – 20th century U.S. cultural history, Left culture and politics, identity politics and historical representation, public humanities, cultural studies and cultural theory
• Frank Kelderman – Early National Women's History and Literature, cultural materialism, theories of culture and ideology
• Natalie Lira – The use of medical and scientific “proof” to reinforce notions of race, gender and sexuality. Queer of color critique, third world feminism, capitalism, neoliberalism and deviance as resistance
• Annah MacKenzie – The intersectionality of the sacred and the secular in modern popular culture; Gender and Critical Home Studies; Theories of space, place and belonging
• Isabel Millan – Children’s literature and multimedia; cyberspace and technology; queer Chicana/Latina/Mexicana sexualities, representations, and transnationalism
• Hannah Noel – "Indigenous" Diasporas throughout the American Hemisphere specifically the Guatemalan-Mayan Diaspora, Latino/a Studies, Performance Studies, Gender Studies, Urban Studies, Native American Studies, and Theater and Politics (Augusto Boal)
• Veronica Pasfield – Native American Studies, boarding school experiences, and oral histories 
• Jennifer Peacock – Chicana/o literature, environmental history, ecocriticism
• Rachel Quinn – Social constructions of race in the African Diaspora, race & nationalism, mixed-race identity in popular culture
• Cristina Solis – Media representation, popular culture, subcultures of the Mexican American population.
• Mejdulene Shomali – Arab American studies, queer theory, non-normative genders and embodiments.
• Wendy Sung – Intersections of Asian American and African American popular culture, with particular regard to popular music and performance; subculture and fashion