Researcher Directory
Welcome to the IAC Social Justice Research Directory
This directory serves as an inventory of published and ongoing social justice research, rooted in communities of color, taking place at UCLA. Our aim is to enhance and showcase the collaborations between researchers across campus, and with the broader community, by identifying and categorizing UCLA faculty and their social justice based-research projects by thematic research categories. The faculty researchers in this directory are affiliated with our ethnic studies research centers, which comprise of the American Indian Studies Center, Asian American Studies Center, Bunche Center for African American Studies, and Chicano Studies Research Center.
American Indian Studies Center
Assistant Professor
Education
Tags: Education, STEM, Pedagogy, Communication, Families
Professor
Law
Tagged: Law, Native Governance, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
Assistant Professor
African American Studies
Tagged: Music, Cultural Production
Associate Professor
American Indian Studies and Gender Studies
Tags: Education, Knowledge Production, Decolonization
Professor
Gender Studies
Tagged: Cultural Production, Education
Professor
Anthropology
Tagged: Linguistic Anthropology, Education, Youth Justice, Language Revitalization, Decolonization
Associate Professor
Public Policy
Tagged: Income Inequality, Economic Development, Indigenous Peoples, Immigration
GF Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology
Education and American Indian Studies
Tagged: Education, Youth Justice, Language Revitalization
Asian American Studies Center
Professor
Urban Planning
Tagged: Economics, Income Inequality, Public Policy
Professor
Asian American Studies and Psychology
Tagged: Psychology
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine
Tagged: Mental Health, Health Disparities
Professor
Geography/Asian American Studies
Tagged: Migration, Gender, Inequality
Professor
Psychology
Tagged: Mental Health, Psychology
Professor
Theater, Film and Television
Tagged With: Cultural Production
Professor
Law
Tagged: Immigration, Law
Professor
Asian American Studies/English
Tagged: Cultural Studies
Assistant Professor
Gender Studies/Asian American Studies
Tagged: Education, Disability
Professor and Director, Asian American Studies Center
Urban Planning and Asian American Studies
Tagged: Urban Planning, Public Policy
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies
Tagged: Decolonization, Mass Incarceration/Prisons, Transnationalism, Youth Justice
Professor
English
Tagged: Cultural Production
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies
Tagged: Imperialism, Empire
Professor
Management
Tagged: Diversity
Assistant Professor
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health
Professor
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health
Associate Professor
Information Studies
Tagged: Archival Research
Professor
Asian American Studies/Sociology
Tagged: Immigration, Development, Education, Ethnic Entrepreneurship, Chinese/Asian diasporas, the Sociology of Asian America
Professor
Education/Asian American Studies
Tagged: Education, Diversity
Professor
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health
Professor Emeritus
Urban Planning and Asian American Studies
Tagged: Urban Planning, Inequality, Transit, Housing
Assistant Professor
Public Policy, Public Health
Tagged: Environment, Climate Change
Professor
English
Tagged: biopolitics, biosciences, biomedicine, performance, disability, gender, identity, posthuman, contemporary, twentieth-century, twenty-first-century, methodology, science and technology studies, affect, ethics, care, femiqueer, body, embodiment, cross-species, Asian American literature, Asian American studies, interdisciplinary, critical race studie
Professor
Asian American Studies
Tagged: Cultural Productio
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies/Chicano Studies
Tagged: Law, Immigration, Transnationalism
Professor
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health
Professor Emeritus
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health
Professor
Theater, Film and Television
Tagged: Cultural Production
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies/Asian Languages & Culture
Tagged: Third World liberation, social movements
Professor
Asian American Studies and History
Tagged: History
Bunche Center for African American Studies
Associate Professor
Gender Studies
Tagged: History, Social Movements, Gender/Sexuality, Transnationalism
Associate Professor
School of Public Affairs/Social Welfare
Tagged: Social Welfare
Professor
Social Welfare
Tagged: Psychology, Economics, Income Inequality
Associate Professor
Public Health
Tagged: Public Health, Health Policy, Gender/Sexuality
Professor
Theater, Film & TV
Tagged: Cultural Production
Associate Professor
Film and TV
Tagged: History, Cultural Production
Associate Professor
School of Nursing
Tagged: Health, Health Policy
Professor
French & Francophone Studies African Studies Center
Tagged: Gender/Sexuality, Race, Transnationalism
Assistant Professor
African American Studies/César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Tagged: The Black Radical Tradition, Black Radicalism, race, racism, political economy, cultural production, spatial politics, spatial entitlement, music
Associate Professor
History and African American Studies
Tagged: Race, Criminal Justice, Immigration
Associate Professor
Integrative Biology & Physiology
Tagged: STEM
Assistant Professor
African American Studies
Tagged: Music, Cultural Production
Associate Professor
African American Studies/Sociology
Tagged: History, Gender/Sexuality
Professor
Public Policy
Tagged: Economics, Inequality, Immigration, Mass Incarceration, Prisons
Professor
English and African American Studies
Tagged: Cultural Production, History, Social Movements
Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History
History
Tagged: History, Social Movements, Black Studies, Arts and Culture
Assistant Professor
Information Studies
Tagged: New Media, Internet Studies, Information Studies, African American Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Digital Humanities
Associate Professor
Film Television & Digital Media
Tagged: Cultural Production, Transnationalism
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Tagged: Psychology, Education
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Cecilia and Keith Terasaki Endowed Chair in the Life Sciences
Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence
Director, Biomedical Research Minor Molecular, Cell & Development Biology
Tagged: STEM, Education
Professor
Education
Tagged: Education
Associate Professor
English
Tagged: Gender, Sexuality, Cultural Production
Distinguished Professor, Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education
Education, Sociology, African American Studies
Tagged: Education
Chicano Studies Research Center
Assistant Professor
Urban Planning
Tagged: Immigration, Law
Associate Professor
Health Policy and Management
Tagged: Health, Health Policy, Immigration
Assistant Professor
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Tagged: Government/Politics, History
Assistant Professor
Spanish and Portuguese
Tagged: Linguistics, Heritage Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Experimental Phonetics and Phonology
Assistant Professor
Geography
Tagged: Immigration, Public Policy, Transnationalism, Social Movements, History
Assistant Professor
Film/TV
Tagged: Cultural Production, Gender/Sexuality
Associate Professor
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Tagged: Immigration, Law, Identity/Subjectivity
Assistant Professor
Education
Tagged: Education, Pedagogy, History
Adjunct Associate Professor
Nursing
Tagged: Health, Health Policy
Professor
Asian American Studies
Tagged: Law, Immigration, Public Policy, Diversity
Professor
César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies
Tagged: Education, Pedagogy
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies/Chicano Studies
Tagged: Law, Immigration, Transnationalism
Professor
Ethnomusicology
Tagged: Music