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Director

Abigail Andrews

Abigail Andrews

CCIS Director, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Community-Action Research; Migration; State Violence; Gender; Borders; Space & Place; Climate Justice; Latin America; Postcolonial & Feminist Theory

Board Members

 

Luis Alvarez

Luis Alvarez

Professor, Department of History, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Race; Pop Culture; Social Movements; History of Chicanas/os, Latinas/os, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

John Arroyo

John Arroyo

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Migrant housing; Immigration Federalism; Urbanism

Samuel Bazzi

Samuel Bazzi

Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Department of Economics, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Community-based connections; Nation-building in diverse societies; Indonesia; U.S.

Yến Lê Espiritu

Yến Lê Espiritu

Distinguished Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD

Areas of expertise: Gender; Race; Transnationalism; Filipino and Vietnamese Immigrants in the U.S.

David Fitzgerald

David Fitzgerald

Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSD; Past CCIS Director; Inaugural holder of the honorary Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair in refugee studies, CCIS; Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations

Areas of expertises: Migration; Asylum; U.S.-Mexican Relations

Melissa Floca

Melissa Floca

Chief Innovation Officer, Societal Computing and Innovation Lab, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Policy; Public Health; Education; Digital Solutions

Nadia Villafuerte

Nadia Villafuerte

Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Asylum Seeker Ethnographies; Migration; Transborder Literatures and Cultures; Creative Writing in Spanish

Brenda Wilson

Brenda Wilson

Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies and Global Health Program, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Asylum Seeker Health; Ethnography; Farm Workers; Critical Race and Gender Studies; Postcolonial Science and Technology

Joe Wiltberger

Joe Wiltberger

Cultural Anthropologist; Visiting Scolar, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Migration; Borders; Violence; Human Rights; Development; Space and Place; Social Mobilization

Tom Wong

Tom Wong

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; USIPC Director, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Politics of Immigration; Citizenship, Migrant Illegality

Elana Zilberg

Elana Zilberg

Associate Professor, Department of Communication, UCSD
 
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, Immigration, Criminal, and Antiterrorist Law 

Faculty Affiliates

Marisa Abrajano

Marisa Abrajano

Professor, Department of Political Science, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: American Politics; Racial and Ethnic Politics; Participation; Voting and Campaigns; Mass Media

Wayne Cornelius

Wayne Cornelius

Director Emeritus, CCIS; Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: U.S. Mexico Relations; Border Politics; Mexican Migration

Neil Gong

Neil Gong

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Psychiatric Services; Homelessness; Liberal Social Order; Migration; Borders

Monika Gosin

Monika Gosin

Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: African American and Latinx relations; migration studies; Afro-Cuban and Afro-Latinx immigrant experiences in the US

Anthony Harb

Anthony Harb

Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology; education; media; ethnic studies

Curtis Marez

Curtis Marez

Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Visual Culture; Chicana/o Media and Social Movements; Critical University Studies; Race in Digital Culture; Farm Workers in a Global Frame

Vanessa Ribas

Vanessa Ribas

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Race; Ethnicity; Migration; Labor, Political Mobilization

Kate Ricke

Kate Ricke

Associate Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Climate Change and Migration; Climate Policy

Mateo Vásques-Córtes

Mateo Vásques-Córtes

Assistant Professor, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Political Economy; Conflict; Identity and Migration; Latin America; Colombia; Venezuela 

Jake Watson

Jake Watson

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UCSD

Areas of Expertise: Refugee Management; Policy; Governance of International Migration

Rihan Yeh

Rihan Yeh

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Areas of Expertise: Border Cultures; Social Mobility; Linguistics