Koptiuch is a cultural anthropologist and urban ethnographer who tries to practice anthro as much performance art as social science. Global urbanism, transnational migration, diversity/inequality, digital humanities.

Reves is the lower division coordinator in the German program. Her research focus is on migration, networks and cultural transfer as well as on AI for foreign language learning.

Abby C. Wheatley is a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in international migration and mobility, human rights, and transnational community regeneration.

Refugee/asylum migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict and peace in the Horn of Africa and northern Uganda.

Jian Gao specializes in the history of U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Asian American history, migration studies, and global Asias studies.