Profiles in "Comparative Diaspora Studies" Expertise Area

  • El Hamel's research focuses mainly on issues of power/class, slavery, race/ethnicity, gender and social justice.
  • Manchester specializes in 19th and 20th century Russian history. Her current research interests include ethnic return migration, diaspora culture, oral history, and autobiographical narratives.
  • Vargas has taught courses in photography, silkscreen, Spanish language, culture, and literature.
  • Harleen Kaur is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Sanford School. Her research interests are in racism, state formation, and belonging, while her teaching covers a variety of local and global approaches to inequalities.
  • Odebiyi's research focuses on two strands of investigations: the development and implementation of teacher candidates’ capacity for designing inquiry-oriented teaching and teachers' thinking as they learn to teach.