Faculty

Our faculty consists of a dynamic group of scholars who approach the study of race and ethnicity through the lens of disciplines such as: art history, anthropology, economics, English, environmental studies, gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, global studies, religion, world languages/cultures, and others.

Faculty

Maeve Eberhardt

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Language and media; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; critical discourse analysis; multimodal discourse analysis

maeve.eberhardt@uvm.edu (802) 656-0791

Jinny Huh

Associate Professor

Asian American literature & culture, African American literature & culture comparative race studies, detective fiction, 20th-Century American literature, cultural studies

Jinny.Huh@uvm.edu

Nikki Khanna

Professor

race/ethnicity, social psychology, identity/multiracial identity.

Nikki.Khanna@uvm.edu (802) 656-2162

Emily Bernard

Julian Lindsay Green & Gold Professor • Carnegie Fellow

African-American and 20th-Century American literature, critical theory, race and ethnicity in literature, Women's studies

Emily.Bernard@uvm.edu (802) 656-3423

John Gennari

Professor

U.S. ethnic studies, jazz studies, food studies, popular culture, cultural criticism

John.Gennari@uvm.edu (802) 656-3435

Noriko Matsumoto

Senior Lecturer

Culture, East Asia, immigration, race and ethnicity, research methods, theory.

Noriko.Matsumoto@uvm.edu (802) 656-3236

Affiliated Faculty

Paul Besaw

Professor

Dance composition; performance studies; devised performance; directing

Paul.Besaw@uvm.edu (802) 656-0084

Meghan Cope

Professor

Urban social/cultural geography, focusing on critical historical geographies of childhood. Using and writing about qualitative research, ethnography, participatory mapping, archival research, and other methods to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to socially and economically marginalized groups.

Meghan.Cope@uvm.edu

Moustapha Diouf

Associate Professor

Moustapha.Diouf@uvm.edu (802) 656-2141

Maeve Eberhardt

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Language and media; language and race; language, gender, and sexuality; critical discourse analysis; multimodal discourse analysis

maeve.eberhardt@uvm.edu (802) 656-0791

Alec Ewald

Associate Professor (2006)

American Politics and Constitutional Law. Current research is on the “collateral consequences” of criminal convictions

Alec.Ewald@uvm.edu (802) 656-0263

Mary Lou Kete

Professor • Chair of the English Department

19th-Century American literature, African-American literature, critical theory, Women's studies 

Mary.Kete@uvm.edu (802) 656-3839

Jennifer Lai

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Jennifer.Lai@uvm.edu

Lokangaka Losambe

Frederick M. and Fannie C.P. Corse Professor of English

African-Anglophone literature, Pan-African literature, Black Atlantic literature, Post-colonialism

Lokangaka.Losambe@uvm.edu

Thomas Macias

Professor

immigration, race and ethnic relations, consumerism, environmental justice.

Thomas.Macias@uvm.edu (802) 656-2141

Sarah Nilsen

Associate Professor

Walt Disney, the popular culture of the cold war, and cultural diplomacy

Sarah.Nilsen@uvm.edu

Sarah E. Turner

Senior Lecturer

Race and ethnicity in contemporary American literature, colorblind racism and post-racial ideology, popular culture, 20th/21st century Black Women writers, modernism, composition

Sarah.E.Turner@uvm.edu

Pamela N. Walker

Assistant Professor

African American History

pnwalker@uvm.edu (802) 656-4489

James Williamson

Senior Lecturer

Science fiction and fantasy, Arthurian tales, Native American literature, composition

James.T.Williamson@uvm.edu