Faculty

Faculty Coordinator:
 

Crispin Thurlow:  Associate Professor
Ph.D., Language and Communication, Cardiff University, UK
Adjunct appointments: Linguistics and Anthropology, UW Seattle
Areas of expertise: Critical discourse studies, social/visual semiotics, new media, global mobility

 Core and Affiliate Faculty:

Christian Anderson: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Geography, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Areas of expertise: Cities and Urban Processes, Everyday Life, Inequality and Social Justice, Geography and Social Space, Ethnography

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

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

Dan Berger: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Social Movements, Prison Studies, Media and Cultural Studies

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

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

Johanna Crane: Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, University of California San Francisco/Berkeley
Areas of expertise: Anthropology of Medicine, Illness, and the Body; Global Health and Inequality; Social Studies of Science and Technology; Postcolonial Technoscience

Sarah Dowling: Senior Lecturer
Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: Modern and Contemporary Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Ethnic Studies, Creative Writing and Poetics

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


 

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


 

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


 

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


  

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




 

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


 
 

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




 
 

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

 

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


 

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

Julie Shayne: Lecturer
Ph.D., Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara
M.A., Women Studies, San Francisco State University
Affiliate Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Areas of expertise: Feminism and Revolution in Latin America and the diaspora, Social Movements and Culture, Political Exile, and Critical Development Studies

 

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

Amoshaun Toft: Lecturer
Ph.D., Communications, University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Discourse and Language, Media Studies, Technology and Society, Network Studies, Social Movements, Poverty and Homelessness

 

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

**Bold indicates core program faculty