People - Faculty

M. Aziz

Assistant Professor

draziz@uw.edu

Office Hours: On Fellowship Leave SP2025

Padelford Hall A-513

Rick Bonus

Professor, Department Chair

rbonus@uw.edu / (206) 543-3929

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00PM-3:00PM or by appointment

Padelford Hall B-506

Lauro H. Flores

Professor

lflores@uw.edu / (206) 543-4343

Office Hours: Research Quarter SP2025

Padelford Hall B-521

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

Lupe Alberto Flores

Assistant Professor

floresla@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fellowship Leave 2024-2025

Anthropology of Borders and the State, Biometric and Digital Technologies, Chicana/o, Ethnographic Writing, Feminist Surveillance Studies, Immigration, Latino/a Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Science and Technology, Theory/Criticism

Kell Juan

Assistant Teaching Professor, Tagalog

mjuan19@uw.edu / 206-616-5789

Office Hours: TBD or by appointment

Padelford Hall A-512

Linh Thủy Nguyễn

Associate Professor

Office Hours: On Leave 2024-2025

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

Office Hours: TBD or by appointment

Denny Hall M-42

Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky

Associate Professor

cpt4@uw.edu / (206) 543-6363

Office Hours: Mondays 2:00PM-4:00PM or by appointment

Padelford Hall A-517

Citizenship and Undocumented Migrants, Ethnography, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology

LaShawnDa Pittman

Associate Professor
Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization, 2022-26

lpittman@uw.edu / (206) 543-4495

Office Hours: On Sabbatical SP2025

Padelford Hall B-517

Carework, Critical Theory, Health Disparities, Public Policy, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Inequality, Sociology, Urban Studies

Sonnet Retman

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

sretman@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00PM-2:30PM or by appointment

Padelford Hall A-514

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

Vincent Schleitwiler

Assistant Teaching Professor

vjs@u.washington.edu / (206) 543-6301

Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00AM-1:00PM (appointment recommended) or by appointment

Padelford Hall A-515

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

Connie So

Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30PM-1:30PM or by appointment

Velma Veloria

Temporary Lecturer - Part-time

velorv@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 12:00PM-2:00PM or by appointment

Women's Center or Zoom

Jacqueline Waita

Associate Teaching Professor, Swahili

waitaj@uw.edu / (206) 543-5160

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30PM-3:10PM or by appointment (Zoom or in-person)

Padelford Hall B-509

Alekzandr Wray

Lecturer

wraya2@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 6:30PM-7:30PM and Fridays 4:00PM-5:00PM or by appointment

via Zoom

Emeriti 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

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

Gail Nomura

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

gmnomura@uw.edu / (206) 543-4219

Stephen H. Sumida

Professor Emeritus

sumida@uw.edu / (206) 543-4219

John C. Walter

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

jcwalter@uw.edu