People - Faculty

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JP Anderson

Assistant Teaching Professor
jpha@uw.edu
Dr. M. Aziz

M. Aziz

Assistant Professor
draziz@uw.edu
Office Hours: On Fellowship Leave AU2025-SU2026
Padelford Hall A-513
Rick Bonus

Rick Bonus

Professor
rbonus@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00PM-3:00PM or by appointment
Padelford Hall A-519
Lauro H. Flores

Lauro H. Flores

Professor
lflores@uw.edu / (206) 543-4343
Office Hours: TBD or by appointment
Padelford Hall B-521
Art, Chicana/o, Film/Cinema, Latin American, Literature, Public Scholarship, Visual Culture
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Lupe Alberto Flores

Assistant Professor
floresla@uw.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00AM-1:00PM or by appointment
Padelford Hall B-507
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

Kell Juan

Assistant Teaching Professor, Tagalog
mjuan19@uw.edu / 206-616-5789
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30PM-2:30PM or by appointment
Padelford Hall A-512

Nan Ma

Temporary Lecturer
nanma22@uw.edu
Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 9:15AM-10:00AM or by appointment
Padelford Hall A-516
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Linh Thủy Nguyễn

Associate Professor
lnguye@uw.edu
Office Hours: On Fellowship Leave AU2025 & WI2026
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
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Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky

Associate Professor
cpt4@uw.edu / (206) 543-6363
Office Hours: Friday 11-1pm & by appointment
Padelford Hall A-517
Citizenship and Undocumented Migrants, Ethnography, Immigration, Labor, Latino/a Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology
LaShawnDa Pittman

LaShawnDa Pittman

Associate Professor
Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization, 2022-26
lpittman@uw.edu / (206) 543-4495
Office Hours: TBD or by appointment
Padelford Hall B-517
Carework, Critical Theory, Health Disparities, Public Policy, Public Scholarship, Race and Ethnicity, Research Methods, Social Inequality, Sociology, Urban Studies
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Matthew Randolph

Assistant Professor
mattrph@uw.edu
Office Hours: Not Teaching AU2025
Padelford Hall B-525
African, African American, Archives, Caribbean Studies, Civil Rights, Dominican Republic, Environmental studies, Geography, Global and Transnational Studies, Haiti, History, Human Rights, Immigration, Latin American, Race and Ethnicity
Associate Professor Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies

Sonnet Retman

Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor: Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, and English
sretman@uw.edu
Office Hours: TBD 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
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Vincent Schleitwiler

Assistant Teaching Professor
vjs@u.washington.edu / (206) 543-6301
Office Hours: TBD 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

Connie So

Teaching Professor
ccso@uw.edu / (206) 543-3424
Office Hours: TBD or by appointment
Jacqueline Waita

Jacqueline Waita

Associate Teaching Professor, Swahili
waitaj@uw.edu / (206) 543-5160
Office Hours: TBD or by appointment
Padelford Hall B-509
Alekzandr Wray sits on a short staircase in front of a door with his hands clasped wearing a black hat with a rose cutting through a cross, glasses, a black jacket draped over his shoulders, and a gray, white, and black sweater

Alekzandr Wray

Lecturer
wraya2@uw.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00PM-4:00PM or by appointment (appt is online only)
Padelford Hall A-516

Emeriti Faculty

Erasmo Gamboa

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, AES Department Chair

Juan Guerra

Professor Emeritus
jguerra@uw.edu / 206-685-6739
Office Hours: by appointment
Language and Literacy Studies, Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Tetsuden Kashima

Tetsuden Kashima

Professor Emeritus; Adjunct Professor of Sociology
kashima@uw.edu / (206) 543-4219
Gail Nomura

Gail Nomura

Associate Professor Emerita; Adjunct Associate Professor: History, and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies
gmnomura@uw.edu / (206) 543-4219
Stephen H. Sumida

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