People - Faculty

M. Aziz

Assistant Professor

draziz@uw.edu

Office Hours: by appointment

PDL B513

Rick Bonus

Professor, Department Chair

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

B-506 Padelford Hall

Lauro H. Flores

Professor, American Ethnic Studies

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

Office Hours: by appointment

B521 Padelford Hall

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

Jang Wook Huh

Assistant Professor

jwhuh@uw.edu / (206) 543-4488

PDL A516

African American, Asian American, Asian/Pacific Studies, Comparative Literature, Global and Transnational Studies, 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

Office Hours: By Appointment

A519 Padelford Hall

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

Linh Thủy Nguyễn

Assistant Professor

lnguye@uw.edu / (206) 543-4224

PDL B523

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

David Palaita

Lecturer

dpalaita@u.washington.edu

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

Office Hours: TBA

A-517 Padelford Hall

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, 2022-24

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

B-517 Padelford Hall

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: By appointment

A-514 Padelford Hall

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

Oliver Rollins

Assistant Professor

orollins@uw.edu

Office Hours: By appointment: https://calendly.com/orollins

PDL B525

African American, Bioethics, Critical Theory, Health Inequalities, Knowledge Production, Race and Ethnicity, Science/Technology & Medicine, Social Justice, Sociology, Theory/Criticism, Violence and Trauma

Vincent Schleitwiler

Assistant Teaching Professor

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

Connie So

Teaching Professor

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

Office Hours: by appt.

Velma Veloria

Temporary Lecturer - Part-time

velorv@uw.edu

Jacqueline Waita

Associate Teaching Professor, Swahili

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

Office Hours: By appointment

B-509 Padelford Hall

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

B-525 Padelford Hall

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