People - Faculty

Field of Interest

Rick Bonus

Professor, Department Chair

rbonus@uw.edu , (206) 543-3929 , B-506 Padelford Hall

Reuben Deleon

Lecturer

rbd2@uw.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

Asian American, Education, Philippine and Filipino American, Race and Ethnicity

Lauro H. Flores

Professor, American Ethnic Studies

lflores@uw.edu , (206) 543-4343 , B521 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: by appointment

Art, Chicana/o, Film/Cinema, Latin American, Literature, Public Scholarship, Visual Culture

Martín Alberto Gonzalez

Assistant Teaching Professor

martingo@uw.edu

Jang Wook Huh

Assistant Professor

jwhuh@uw.edu , (206) 543-4488 , PDL A516

African American, Asian American, Asian/Pacific Studies, Comparative Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Translation, Visual Culture

Kell Juan

Assistant Teaching Professor, Tagalog

mjuan19@uw.edu , 206-616-5789 , PDL A512

La TaSha Levy

Assistant Professor

levyl@uw.edu , A519 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: By Appointment

20th Century, Activism, African American, African American History, Black Intellectual Traditions, Black Studies, Black Women's Studies, Civil Rights, History, Race and Ethnicity

Alina R. Méndez

Assistant Professor

armendez@uw.edu , 206-616-2352 , PDL B507

Office Hours: Professor Méndez will not be teaching in the department until Fall 2021. Instead, she will be working on her book manuscript as a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and School for Advanced Research Resident Scholar during the 2020-2021 academic year.

Chicana/o, Class, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity

Michelle Kritz Morado

Lecturer

mkmorado@uw.edu

Chicana/o, Class, History, Motherhood, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity, Sexuality, Women of Color

Linh Thủy Nguyễn

Assistant Professor

lnguye@uw.edu , (206) 543-4224 , PDL B523

Office Hours: Office Hours will resume in Spring by appt at https://calendly.com/lnguye

Asian American, Critical Refugee Studies, Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History and Memory, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Southeast Asian American, Violence and Trauma

Devon G. Peña

Professor

dpena@uw.edu , (206) 228-4876 , M-42 Denny Hall

Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky

Associate Professor

cpt4@uw.edu , (206) 543-6363 , A-517 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: On sabbatical leave during Spring 2021.

Citizenship Studies, Ethnography, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology, Undocumented- and Mixed-Status Experience

LaShawnDa Pittman

Assistant Professor

lpittman@uw.edu , (206) 543-4495 , B-517 Padelford Hall

Critical Theory, Gender and Family, Health Disparities, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Stratification and Inequality, Sociology, Urban Studies

Sonnet Retman

Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and English

sretman@uw.edu , (206) 543-0470 , A-514 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: By appointment

African American, Archives, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Literature, New Media, Performance Studies, Politics of Representation, Popular Music, Race and Ethnicity

Oscar Rosales Castañeda

Lecturer Part-Time

oscarr@uw.edu

Activism, Chicana/o, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Immigration, Labor, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity, Social Justice

Elizabeth Salas

Associate Professor; Adjunct Professor: History, and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies (Retired)

salase@uw.edu

Vincent Schleitwiler

Lecturer Part-Time

vjs@u.washington.edu , (206) 543-6301 , A-515 Padelford Hall

African American, Asian American, Film/Cinema, Japanese American, Literary Criticism, Media Studies, Philippine and Filipino American, Popular Music, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Visual Culture

Brukab Sisay

Lecturer Part-Time

brukabs@uw.edu , (206) 543-4219 , A-513 Padelford Hall

Connie So

Teaching Professor

ccso@uw.edu , (206) 543-3424

Office Hours: by appt.

Jacqueline Waita

Senior Lecturer, Swahili

waitaj@uw.edu , (206) 543-5160 , B-509 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: T W 10:30-11:15 or by appt.

Emeritus Faculty

Erasmo Gamboa

Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor: History, and Latin American Studies

gamboae@uw.edu , (206) 543-4224

Chicana/o, Civil Rights, Documentary, Ethnography, History, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Oral History, Race and Ethnicity

Juan Guerra

Professor Emeritus

jguerra@uw.edu , 206-685-6739 , B-525 Padelford Hall

Office Hours: by appointment

Language and Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies

Tetsuden Kashima

Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor of Sociology

kashima@uw.edu , (206) 543-4219 , A-513 Padelford Hall

Gail Nomura

Associate Professor Emerita; Adjunct Associate Professor: History, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

gmnomura@uw.edu , (206) 543-4219 , A-513 Padelford Hall

Stephen H. Sumida

Professor Emeritus

sumida@uw.edu , (206) 543-4219 , B-513 Padelford Hall

John C. Walter

Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor: History; Emerita of African American Studies

jcwalter@uw.edu