Community Studies

Professor

William H. Friedland, Emeritus

Nancy Stoller
Race and gender aspects of health, the AIDS epidemic, community organizing, sexualities, and medicine in prisons

David T. Wellman
Working-class culture, American ethnic and racial diversity, social documentary studies, critical race theory, interrogations of whiteness, and qualitative research methods

Carter Wilson, Emeritus

Deborah A. Woo
Asian Americans and social change, glass ceilings and workplace discrimination, Asian American health, and mental health

Associate Professor

David T. Brundage
American working-class and immigration history, history of U.S. social movements, Irish history and politics

Mary Beth Pudup
Regional studies, economic justice, public policy, historical geography of the U.S.

Renee Tajima-Peña
Documentary film and video, Asian American and immigrant communities, media and social change

Assistant Professor

Julie Guthman
Sustainable agriculture and alternative food movements, international political economy of food and agriculture, political ecology, economic geography of California

Paul Ortiz
African American history, U.S. social and political history, social documentary, oral history, subaltern studies and theories of resistance, U.S. South, Latino studies, social movements, working-class history

Pamela Perry
Youth activism and empowerment, youth cultures, educational inequalities, race and ethnic identities, and whiteness

Ruby Rich
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latino/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.

Lecturer and Field Program Coordinator

Michael Rotkin
Marxist theory, capitalist system, community organizing, electoral politics, media, government programs, community power structure, institutional analysis, and affirmative action

Professor

John G. Borrego (Latin American and Latino Studies)
Global political economy, national development, urban and regional planning, community organizing, social change, ethnic minorities, Mexico and the Southwest

Dana Frank (History)
U.S. social and economic history, women, labor and working-class history, contemporary political economy

Patricia Zavella (Latin American and Latino Studies)
The relationship between women’s work and domestic labor, poverty, family, sexuality and social networks, feminist studies, ethnographic research methods, and transnational migration of Mexicana/o workers and U.S. capital

Associate Professor

Monica J. Casper (Sociology)
Medical sociology, science and technology studies, gender/ feminist theory, cultural studies, qualitative research, women’s health, and environmental health