Faculty Members
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Peg Brand Weiser Adjunct Instructor Email: mbweiser@email.arizona.e TEL: 520-621-5045 Office: Social Sciences 216D An artist (M.A., studio art) with a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Peg Brand Weiser is Emerita Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at IUPUI (Indiana University -... |
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Beth Alpert Nakhai Associate Professor Email: bnakhai@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-5762 Office: Marshall 422 Beth Alpert Nakhai is an associate professor in the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies and an affiliated member of the School of Anthropology. She teaches courses on archaeology, Hebrew Bible, Near Eastern history and women in ancient Israel. She received her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School... |
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Diane Austin Ph.D. Research Anthropologist, Director of School of Anthropology Email: daustin@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)626-3879 Office: Emil W. Haury Anth. Bldg. 316 (Ph.D. UMich 1994) Research Interests |
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Anne Betteridge Ph.D. Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Email: anneb@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5450 Office: Louise Foucar Marshall Bldg
An anthropologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Anne H. Betteridge is Director of the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a faculty member in the UA Department of Near Eastern Studies. She served as Executive Director of the Middle East Studies Association... |
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Katia da Costa Bezerra Ph.D. Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Email: kbezerra@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-0786 Office: Modern Languages Dr. Katia da Costa Bezerra has published essays on Contemporary Portuguese, Brazilian and Lusophone African literature. She is also concerned with the rescue of a literary production published by mineiras born in the XIX century.Her theoretical approaches include questions on gender, sexuality,... |
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Dev Bose Associate Professor of Practice (Career Track) Email: bose@arizona.edu Office: Building: Modern Languages (#67), Room #445 Dr. Dev K. Bose is an associate professor of practice of English at the University of Arizona. He is also Assistant Director of WP Faculty & Inclusion; affiliate faculty of Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English; affiliate faculty of Gender & Women’s Studies; co-chair of... |
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Stephanie Brown Email: stephbrown@email.arizona.edu Office: Modern Languages 344 Steph Brown has been a lecturer in the Department of English since 2014 and became GWS affiliate faculty in 2016. Her research interests include Anglophone modernism, mass cultural movements in the British Empire during the early twentieth century, literature of decolonization and the end of... |
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Meg Lota Brown Associate Dean, Professional Development; Professor, English (Tenured); Associate Vice Provost, Academic Affairs Email: mlbrown@arizona.edu Office: Administration Room #322 Meg Lota Brown is Professor of early modern English literature and culture. She is also the Director of the UA Graduate Center and Co-PI for a number of grants in support of graduate education. She is the author or editor of four books and has published numerous articles on Reformation politics... |
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Maritza Cardenas Director of Global Studies; Associate Professor, English (Tenured) Email: mcardena@arizona.edu Office: Building: Modern Languages, Room #445 Maritza Cárdenas (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Global Studies program at the University of Arizona. She is also an affiliate faculty member in Gender and Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, the Program in Social Cultural, Critical Theory, Institute of... |
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Julia Clancy-Smith Ph.D. Regents Professor Email: juliac@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-8421 Office: Social Sciences 221 I. EDUCATION/TEACHING POSITIONS |
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Anna Cooper Assistant Professor Email: annacooper@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-3205 Office: Marshall Bldg, Room 234 Anna Cooper’s research interests include classical and contemporary Hollywood, transnational and postcolonial cinemas, representations of gender, space/place/mobilities in film, and feminist film and media studies. Her forthcoming monograph, titled An American Abroad: European Travel... |
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Rae Erin Dachille Assistant Professor Email: raedachille@email.arizona.edu Dr. Rae Erin Dachille (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley) specializes in the religious and artistic traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Her research focuses upon representations of the body in art, ritual, philosophy, and medicine in Tibetan and Sanskrit sources. Dr... |
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Linda Darling Ph.D. Professor, History Email: ldarling@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-9754 Office: Social Sciences 231 My research deals with fiscal administration in the Ottoman Empire and its connections with political legitimation, and I set my work on the Ottomans within the wider context of the early modern period in Europe and, to a lesser extent, states farther east. My current project examines Ottoman... |
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Suzanne Dovi Ph.D. Associate Professor Email: sdovi@email.arizona.edu
Suzanne Dovi is an Associate Professor of the School of Government... |
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Javier Duran Ph.D. Director, Confluence Center - in the Office of the Vice President for Research Email: duran@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-5137 Office: ADMINISTRATION 601 Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese Research interests: U.S.-Mexico Border Studies, critical theory, cultural studies, modern and contemporary Latin American narrative, Latin American women... |
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Aileen A. Feng Ph.D. Associate Professor, French and Italian Email: aafeng@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520)621-6428 Office: Modern Languages 570 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2008). Associate Professor and Director of Italian Studies; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Gender & Women's Studies. Dr. Feng specializes in late-Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature with comparative interests in Latin and Medieval-... |
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Mary Jo Fox Ph.D. Professor and Research Social Scientist, American Indian Studies Email: foxm@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-4242 Office: Richard P. Harvill Building 224 Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox (Comanche; Ph.D., 1982, University of Arizona) (AIS)., an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation, is an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona (UA), Tucson, Arizona. She is the former Director/ Chair of AIS and also served... |
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Alison Futrell Associate Professor Email: afutrell@arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-8428 Office: Cesar E Chavez Building, Room #419 My interests lie in the discourse, performance, and imagery of power in imperial Rome, with special interest in spectacle and gender. I have authored and edited and co-edited Blood in the Arena; ... |
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Linda B. Green Ph.D. Professor, Anthropology Email: lbgreen@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-621-6291 FAX: (520) 621-2088 Office: Richard P. Harvill Building Degrees Research Interests |
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Jill Guernsey de Zapien Director, Border / Transborder and Binational Public Health Email: dezapien@email.arizona.edu TEL: 520-626-7083 Office: Roy P. Drachman Hall Jill Guernsey de Zapien has been working on community-based public health interventions and research in Arizona and throughout the Southwest for more than 20 years. She has collaborated with others in establishing the first lay health educator or Promotora outreach program in Arizona, Health... |
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Faith S. Harden Associate Professor Email: fharden@arizona.edu Faith S. Harden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliated faculty in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies and the Program in... |
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Leila Hudson Associate Professor, Modern Middle East Culture & Political Economy Email: lhudson@arizona.edu [more information] |
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Joela Jacobs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of German Studies Email: joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-2300 Office: Learning Services Building 306 Joela Jacobs received her Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching bring together 19th-21st century German literature and film, animal studies, environmental humanities, Jewish studies, the history of sexuality, and the history of science. She has... |
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John Paul (JP) Jones Dean, International Education; Professor, Geography/Regional Devel (Tenured); Professor, Public Health (Non-Tenure Eligible) Email: jpjones@arizona.edu Office: University Services Building, Room #322A John Paul “JP” Jones III (Ph.D. Ohio State University) is Dean of International Education at the University of Arizona. He is also Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment in the university’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Jones was appointed Dean of... |
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Kimberly Jones Vice Dean, Academic Affairs-College of Humanities Email: kjones@arizona.edu Dr. Kimberly Jones is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Humanities and a Professor of East Asian Studies. A sociolinguist who specializes in second language acquisition and teaching and in Japanese sociolinguistics, she is particularly interested in how the analysis of naturally... |
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Simin Karimi Ph.D. Professor, Department of Linguistics Email: karimi@U.ARIZONA.EDU TEL: (520) 621-5399 FAX: (520) 626-9014 Simin Karimi is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics. She has also appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, The Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, the joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology, the Department of Near Eastern Studies... |
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Cheryl Ann Knott Professor, School of Information (Tenured) Email: cherylknott@arizona.edu Office: Richard P. Harvill Building, Room #435C Cheryl Knott publishes in the area of information access broadly construed. Her book, Find the Information You Need! (Rowman... |
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Mary Koss Ph.D. Regents’ Professor for Department of Health Promotion Sciences Email: mpk@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 626-3998 Office: Drachman 248A (PhD University of Minnesota, 1972) Mary Koss, PhD, is a Regents’ Professor. The title Regents’ Professor is the awarded by the Arizona Board of Regents and she is among three so honored in the Arizona Health Sciences Center. In her work on gender-based violence Dr. Koss served on the... |
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Barbara Kosta Ph.D. Professor and Department Head, German Studies Email: bkosta@email.arizona.edu TEL: (520) 621-7389 Office: German Studies - LSB 322 Barbara Kosta received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Recasting Autobiography: Women's Counterfictions in Contemporary German Literature and Film (Cornell UP, 1994), and co-editor of Writing Against Boundaries: Gender, Ethnicity and... |
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Jamie Ann Lee Assistant Professor Email: jalee2@email.arizona.edu Jamie A. Lee is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the School of Information (Arizona’s iSchool) at the University of Arizona. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Digital Storytelling & Culture, Information Environments from Latino and Native... |
