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Name	Title	Research Areas	Core Areas
	Mary Romero Head of Faculty and Professor Curriculum Vitae	Social inequalities and justice, reproductive labor and intersectionality, globalization of caregiving and the legal conceptualizations of care through immigration and employment law, critical race and gender studies	Citizenship, migration and human rights; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change
	Madelaine Adelman Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae	Political and legal anthropology & sociolegal studies; gender violence, nationalism & religion; youth sexuality and schooling; research methodologies; Middle East and U.S.	Social identities and communities; law, policy and social change
	Gray Cavender Professor Curriculum Vitae	Law and social control, media	Media, technology and culture
	Wendy Cheng Assistant Professor Curriculum Vitae	Comparative ethnic studies, Asian American studies, geography and urban suburban studies.
	Alan Eladio Gomez Assistant Professor Curriculum Vitae	History of social movements in the U.S, Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands; political cultures; white supremacy, violence, law and state formation; prison rebellions and incarceration logic	Citizenship, migration, and human rights globalization; sustainability and economic justice; social identities and communities
	Vanna Gonzales Assistant Professor	Social policy, welfare reform, governance and the development of the third sector in the United States and Europe	Law, policy and social change; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migration and human rights
	LaDawn Haglund Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae	International political economy; development and human rights, especially in Latin America; globalization studies; institutions and social change; social and political dimensions of sustainability and natural resources management, particularly water.	Citizenship, migration and human rights; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change

	Nancy Jurik Professor Curriculum Vitae	Work and occupations, economic justice, feminist theory	Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; media, technology and culture; social identities and communities
	Pat Lauderdale Professor Curriculum Vitae	Comparative law and justice, social movements, political trials and deviance, world systems and global inequality, dispute negotiation and indigenous jurisprudence	Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; law, policy and social change
	Charles Lee Assistant Professor Curriculum Vitae	Transnationalism and citizenship, identity politics, cultural studies, social and political theory	Citizenship, migration and human rights; social identities and communities
	Merlyna Lim Assistant Professor Curriculum Vitae	Technology and society, media and information technology, urban politics, globalization	Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; media, technology and culture; social identities and communities
	Vera Lopez Associate Professor Curriculum Vitae	Adolescent substance abuse, delinquency, sexual risk-taking and prevention research	Law, policy and social change; social identities and communities
	Nathan Martin Assistant Professor	Achievement and inequality in education, the implication of economic globalization for workers	Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; social identities and communities
	Doris Marie Provine Professor Curriculum Vitae	Unauthorized immigration, comparative migration law, policy, race and criminal justice	Citizenship, migration and human rights; law, policy and social change
	H. L. T. Quan Assistant Professor Curriculum Vitae	Race, gender and development; race and empire; racial capital; feminist thought; black radical thought; social movements	Social identities and communities; globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migration and human rights
	Beth Swadener Professor Curriculum Vitae	Children's rights and social justice; social policy, anti-oppressive/ally strategies in early childhood contexts; and global policies linked to local lives in sub-Saharan Africa	Globalization, sustainability and economic justice; citizenship, migration and human rights
	Marjorie Zatz Professor Curriculum Vitae	Gender, race/ethnicity, comparative justice	Law, policy and social change; social identities and communities; citizenship, migration and human rights