Humanities

James Kyun-Jin Lee

Education: B.A., University of Pennsylvania, English; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, English

Dissertation: Multicultural Dreams, Racial Awakenings: The Anxieties of Racial Realignment in American Literary Works of the 1980s

Thesis Advisors: King-Kok Cheung, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles; Richard Yarborough, Professor English and African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Multicultural Dreams, Racial Awakenings: The Anxieties of Racial Realignment and Urban Crisis in Contemporary U.S. Literature

Mentor: Rosaura Sanchez, Professor of Literature, University of California, San Diego

Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Caroline Streeter

Education: B.A., Stanford University, Feminist Studies; M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: Ambiguous Bodies, Ambivalent Desires: The Morphing Mulatto Body in U.S. Culture, 1965-1999

Thesis Advisor: Barbara T. Christian, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: The Gift of Betrayal: Hybridity in Black Women's Cultural Texts

Mentors: Herman Gray, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Angela Y. Davis, Professor of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English and Center for African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Lisa B. Thompson

Education: B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, English; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Afro-American Studies; Ph.D., Stanford University, Modern Thought & Literature

Dissertation: Representations of Black Middle Class Female Sexuality in Contemporary Narrative and Performance

Thesis Advisors: Harry J. Elam, Jr., Professor of Drama, Stanford University; Valerie A. Smith, Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic: Sex Talk: Black Middle Class Women Represent Sexuality

Mentor: David Van Leer, Professor of English, University of California, Davis

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, State University of New York at Albany

Jennifer Lisa Vest

Education: B.S., Hampshire College, Physics; M.A., Howard University, History; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Ethnic Studies

Dissertation: What is at Stake: Challenges Posed by Critical Indigenous Philosophies

Thesis Advisor: Barbara T. Christian, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Research Topic: Critical Cultural Philosophy of Science: A Look at the African, Native American, and Feminist Critiques Scholars Deloris, Oluwole, and Harding Make of Western Science

Mentor: Sandra Harding, Professor of Education and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida

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