Affiliated Faculty
University Distinguished Professor, Department of English
Research interests: Nineteenth-century British and American literature and culture; gender criticism and theory; poetry and poetics; and the work of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen).
Maribel Alvarez
Maribel Alvarez holds a dual appointment as Assistant Research Professor in the English Department and Research Social Scientist at the Southwest Center, University of Arizona. She teaches courses on cultural studies and serves as the University's Public Folklorist, charged with interpreting the regional culture of Northern Mexico and the US Southwest through research, exhibitions, symposia, and other public programs. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona and a Masters Degree in Political Theory from California State University. She is currently writing a book on artisans, artisanal labor, and the marginal crafts or "tourist kitsch" of the US-Mexico border. From 1996 to 2002 she served as the Executive Director of MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana, a multidisciplinary urban arts space in San Jose that she also co-founded. Under her leadership, MACLA became nationally recognized for its sophisticated innovation in community arts. In 2001, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts recognized MACLA as one of the 25 most effective "alternative art spaces" in the country. Maribel was born in Cuba, grew up in Puerto Rico, and has worked closely in the field of Chicano arts since the 1980s.
Caryl Flinn
Professor, Women's Studies
Research interests: Film and visual cultures, music and musical theatre, theories of camp and kitsch
http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/flinn.php
Carol Galper
Assistant Dean of Medical Student Education
Clinical Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Read about Carol Galper in the LGBT Studies Research News.
Kristin Gunckel
Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning, & Sociocultural Studies
Research interests: Preparation of elementary teachers to teach science and environmental education, elementary teachers' use of curriculum materials to teach science, development of inquiry-based science curriculum materials, and learning progressions for environmental literacy.
Benjamin H. Irvin
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Research interests: I am a social and cultural historian of early America, focusing particularly upon the Revolutionary period. I have strong interests in gender history and I teach a course entitled, Manhood and Masculinity in the United States.
http://datamonster.sbs.arizona.edu/history/faculty/faculty.php?id=577
John Paul Jones III
Professor and Head, Department of Geography & Regional Development
Research interests: Human geography with an emphasis on poststructuarlist approaches to social space, representation, and identity
http://geog.arizona.edu/people/jones.php
Sallie A Marston
Professor, Department of Geography & Regional Development
Research interests: My research is centered on political geography with particular interest in social and spatial theories of difference.
http://geog.arizona.edu/people/marston.php
Kay Mathiesen
Senior Lecturer, Department School of Information Resources and Library Science
Research interests: My research focuses on the logic of social identity and group membership and the ethical issues surrounding access to and use of information.
http://www.sir.arizona.edu/faculty/mathiesen/mathiesen.html
V. Spike Peterson
Professor, Political Science, with affiliations in Women's Studies, International Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies
Research interests: International Relations Theory; Global Political Economy; Gender and Politics; Contemporary Social Theory (Critical, Postmodern, Postcolonial, Feminist Theory, with an emphasis on intersectional analysis)
http://web.arizona.edu/~polisci/faculty/peterson.html http://www.u.arizona.edu/~spikep/
Hai Ren
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies and affiliated faculty in Department of Anthropology
Research interests: Focusing on the intersections of political subjectivity, history, culture and economy, my research interests include popular culture and mass media in East Asia and contemporary United States.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hren/
Andrea Romero
Associate Professor, Mexican American Studies & Research Center
Affiliate Psychology Department
Affiliate Family Studies & Human Development Division, John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences
Research interests: Adolescent health and sources of resiliency in ethnic identity, families, and low-income neighborhoods. Current research projects are to prevent substance use, and STDs/HIV/AIDS among Mexican American and Native American teens.
http://fp.arizona.edu/profromero/
Susan Shaw
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Research interests: Gender, sexuality, ethnicity, access to health care, health disparities, governing.
http://anthropology.arizona.edu/people/display_fac_details.php?id=45
Sally J. Stevens
Executive Director and Professor, Southwest Institute for Research on Women, Women's Studies
Research interests: Health, equity and gender/sexuality related issues with a focus on low income, under-served women and children living in southwestern United States
Marcy B. Wood
Assistant Professor, Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies
Research interests: Learning and teaching elementary (K-8) mathematics, social construction of identiy and equity education
http://mbwood.faculty.arizona.edu