Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Specializations

Psyche Williams-Forson
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Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies
Psyche Williams-Forson
Dr. Williams-Forson's research and teaching interests include cultural studies, material culture, food, women’s studies, social and cultural history of the U.S. in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
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Assistant Professor
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Dr. Bruce studies and teaches African American and African diaspora literature and performance, popular culture, disability studies, sexuality studies, critical theory, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian...
Perla Guerrero
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Associate Professor
Perla Guerrero
Dr. Guerrero's research and teaching interests lie comparative race and ethnicity, immigration, space and place, labor, and 20th century U.S. history.
Sheri Parks
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Associate Professor
Sheri Parks
Dr. Parks' research focuses on public aesthetics, with particular concern for popular culture as public mythology and its effect upon individuals, families and minority cultures.
Janelle Wong
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Professor
Janelle Wong
Dr. Wong's research is on race, immigration, and political mobilization. Her current book project focuses on how growing numbers of Asian American and Latino evangelical Christians will impact the traditional...
Nancy Struna
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Professor Emerita
Nancy Struna
Dr. Struna began her academic career as a social historian of sport, leisure, and work. With a strong theoretical bent, she focuses on cultural production, the body and sexuality, agency and power in everyday...
John Caughey
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Professor Emeritus
John Caughey
John L. Caughey is a Professor Emeritus and past chair in the Department. His research involves the ethnographic, comparative investigation of contemporary cultures as systems of meaning. He has done field...