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Faculty Coordinator: 
 

Ron Krabill: Associate Professor
Social Movements, Media, Postcolonial Studies, Southern Africa
Ph.D., Sociology & Historical Studies, New School for Social Research

Core and Affiliate Faculty: 
 

Leslie Ashbaugh: Lecturer
Global Studies, Society, Ethics and Human Behavior
Ph.D., Anthropology, Northwestern University

Miriam Bartha: Associate Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW Seattle
Humanities, Public Scholarship, Cultural Studies
Ph.D., English, Rutgers University 

Bruce Burgett: Professor and Director, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Public Culture
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley 
 

S. Charusheela: Associate Professor
Ph.D., Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
 

JoLynn Edwards: Professor
Art History, Dance History, Comparative Arts
Ph.D., Art History, University of Washington

 

Ben Gardner: Assistant Professor
Global, Cultural and Environmental Politics, Africa, Development, Cultural Geography
Ph.D., Geography, University of California, Berkeley

 

Susan Harewood: Assistant Professor
Communication Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

 

Jeanne Heuving: Professor
Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cross Genre Writing
Ph.D., University of Washington, English

  

Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren: Associate Professor
Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Cross-Cultural Performance, Creativity
Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University



 

Bruce Kochis: Senior Lecturer
Policy Studies, Human Rights, East European Studies
Ph.D., Slavic, University of Michigan

 

Kari Lerum: Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor, Women Studies, UW Seattle
Gender, Sexuality, Organizations, Culture, Visual Studies
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington
 

Joe Milutis: Assistant Professor
Media Production, Literary and Cultural Studies, Experimental and Hybrid Art Forms, Sound and Radio
Ph.D., Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

Georgia Roberts: Lecturer
Global Hip Hop Culture, American and Comparative Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Public Scholarship
Ph.C., English, University of Washington 

Julie Shayne: Lecturer
Feminism and Revolution in Latin America, Social Movements and Culture, Political Exile, Diaspora, and Critical Development Studies
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
 

Eric Stewart: Assistant Professor
Community Psychology, Prevention and Promotion, Theories of Change, Queers, Cultural History of HIV/AIDS, Research Methods
Ph.D., Clinical-Community Psychology, University of Illinois

 

Elizabeth Thomas: Associate Professor
Associate Director for Graduate Education. Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Community and Cultural Psychology, Childhood and Adolescence, The Arts and Social Change
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Illinois
 

Crispin Thurlow:  Associate Professor
Adjunct Associate Professor, Linguistics and Communication, UW Seattle
Linguistics and Communication, Education, Psychology
Ph.D., Language and Communication, Cardiff University, Wales
 

Robert Turner: Assistant Professor
Earth and Environmental Science, Hydrogeology, Sustainability
Ph.D., Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

**Bold indicates core program faculty