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Faculty List

Core Faculty

Rowena Fong

Professor

rfong@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-1393  |  SSW 2.240

Education   

Ed.D., Harvard University
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Heather Hindman

Assistant Professor

h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Critical development, entrepreneurialism, expatriate communities, social theory, global labor and gender

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Madeline Y. Hsu

Director, Associate Professor

myhsu@austin.utexas.edu  |  475-7850  |  GAR 3.222

Education   

Ph.D., Yale University, 1996

Interests

  Migration, Transnationalism and Diaspora, Chinese Overseas, and Ethnic Studies.

S. Akbar Hyder

Faculty

shyder@austin.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Harvard University
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Julia H. Lee

Assistant Professor

jxlee@utexas.edu  |  471-6095  |  CAL 315

Education   

Ph.D., 2005, University of California, Los Angeles

Interests

  Asian American Literature; African American Literature; and Twentieth-century American Literature

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Nhi T. Lieu

Assistant Professor

nlieu@mail.utexas.edu  |  512 232 2792  |  BUR 444

Education   

Ph.D., American Culture, 2004, University of Michigan

Interests

  Cultural Studies and Media Representations, 20th century U.S. Immigration, Social Theories on Popular Amusements, Transnationalism, Cultural Politics, and Comparative Beauty Cultures.

Madhavi Mallapragada

Assistant Professor

madhavim@austin.utexas.edu  |  471-9239  |  CMA 6.172

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests

  online articulations of racialized, brown, and transnational cultural identities within a South Asian American contex

Robert M Oppenheim

Associate Professor

rmo@austin.utexas.edu  |  (512) 471-7279  |  WCH 5.134

Education   

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests

  Korean anthropology and history; science/tech/society; heritage; objects/materiality; history of anthropology

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Naomi Paik

Assistant Professor

naomi.paik@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-232-2876  |  BUR 440

Education   

Ph.D., American Studies, 2009, Yale University

Interests

  Comparative ethnic studies; transnational U.S. cultural studies; Asian American studies; social and cultural approaches to legal studies; postcolonial studies and theories of race and imperialism; transnational feminist theory; carceral spaces; labor, race, and migration.

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Sharmila Rudrappa

Associate Professor

rudrappa@austin.utexas.edu  |  232-6310  |  BUR 574

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests

  Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Feminist Theory, Labor, Immigration, and Citizenship.

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Snehal Shingavi

Assistant Professor

snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu  |  471-8114  |  PAR 27

Education   

Ph.D., 2008, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

  Anglophone South Asian literature, Hindi/Urdu literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “the nation” (anticolonialism, nationalism, statism, postcolonialism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, transnationalism, internationalism), Classical Marxism

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Nancy K. Stalker

Associate Professor

nancy.stalker@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., 2002, Stanford University
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Cynthia Talbot

Associate Professor

ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu

Education   

PhD, 1988, University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Eric Tang

Assistant Professor, Associate Director, UT Community Engagement Center

erictang@mail.utexas.edu  |  471-4380  |  JES 232BC

Education   

Ph.D., 2006, American Studies, New York University

Interests

  Racism & Anti-racism; The Poetics of Displacement; Urban unrest; Activist research

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Kamala Visweswaran

Associate Professor

kvis@mail.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Affiliated Faculty

Mia Carter

Faculty

miaC@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-8733  |  PAR 123

Education   

Ph.D., English and Modern Studies, 1992, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Wenhong Chen

Assistant Professor

wenhong_chen@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-471-4952  |  CMA 6.136

Education   

Ph.D., University of Toronto
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Su Yeong Kim

Assistant Professor

projectfamily@gmail.com  |  512-471-5524  |  SEA 2.322C

Education   

Ph.D. HDFS, University of California, Davis

Shanti Kumar

Associate Professor

shantikumar@mail.utexas.edu  |  512-232-3498  |  CMA 5.124

Education   

Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington

Beili Liu

Associate Professor

beili@mail.utexas.edu  |  512–471–6071  |  ART 4.414

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Arthur Sakamoto

Faculty

asakamoto@austin.utexas.edu  |  512-471-1748  |  CLA3.506

Education   

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Thomas A. Tweed

Professor

tomtweed@austin.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., Stanford University

Teaching Affiliates

Aarti Bhalodia

Lecturer

bhalodia@austin.utexas.edu

Education   

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin

Alexander Cho

Assistant Instructor

alexcho47@gmail.com

Education   

M.A., Media Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Interests

  Social media, critical race theory, critical mixed race studies, gender and sexuality studies

Nandini Dhar

Assistant Instructor

nandinid@mail.utexas.edu

Jennifer Doane

Assistant Instructor

jdoane@utexas.edu

Vicky Hill

Lecturer

vickyhill@austin.rr.com

Education   

Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin

Ramey Ko

Lecturer

ramey.ko@gmail.com

Education   

J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Alisa Perkins

Assistant Instructor

alisaperkins@gmail.com

Joseph Schaub

Lecturer

rockschaubster@gmail.com

Education   

Ph.D, University of Maryland, College Park
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Sarah Steinbock-Pratt

Assistant Instructor

sarahsteinbockpratt@utexas.edu

Education   

M.A. American History, Concordia University, Montreal
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