Research
The faculty
of
Community
Studies
hold
degrees
and
backgrounds
in
Sociology,
Geography,
Anthropology,
History,
Fine Arts and
Social
Documentation. They regularly conduct research and contribute to publications
at
the
forefront
of
their
fields. For more information about Community Studies faculty, please visit the faculty directory.
- Professor David Brundage is a historian of the Irish diaspora in the U.S. and also the U.S. labor movement.
- Lecturer Sean Burns is a historian of U.S. social movements and the contemporary global justice movement. His teaching and writing investigate questions of education, identity, culture, and the political imagination in movement building. His first, forthcoming book is on the labor activist and public folklorist Archie Green.
- Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director Julie Guthman is a geographer who studies the race, class and body politics of contemporary alternative food movements, with a particular interest in how these are shaped by California's political economy."
- Assistant Professor Marcia Ochoa is a cultural anthropologist who studies gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, media and cultural studies, and political philsophy and geography.
- Associate Professor Paul Ortiz has published in the areas of Latino history, social movement theory, and the Jim Crow era of U.S. Southern history.
- Associate Professor Mary Beth Pudup's research examines the political economy of urban and regional development, with an abiding interest in Appalachia.
- Professor and Department Chair B. Ruby Rich studies documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, and Latin American and Latino/a cinema.
- Lecturer and Associate Researcher Andrea Steiner is a gerontologist and health policy researcher who evaluates innovations in healthcare in the US and UK.
- Professor Emeritus Nancy Stoller is a noted scholar activist in the analysis of prison conditions in the United States, particularly the health status and care of incarcerated women.
- Associate Professor and Graduate Director Renee Tajima-Pena is an acclaimed film maker of award-winning documentaries about inter-cultural relations in America.
- Professor David Wellman is a leading figure in the study of racism in the United States.
- Professor Emeritus Deborah Woo studies the myths and realities of Asian Americans as a "model majority."