Profiles in "Diaspora Studies" Expertise Area

  • Jeffrey W. Kassing is a professor of communication studies in the School of Social & Behavioral Sciences. His research interests include football/soccer in relation to identity, fandom, politics, migration, and media.
  • Cho's research fields range from Korean and Chinese literature and culture; East Asian comparative literature; women and gender studies; performance literature; and oral storytelling and folk literature.
  • Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is a Chicana scholar whose research focuses on place studies, rural communities, and the legacies of colonialism in Chicanx and Indigenous literature and culture.
  • Kassaw Merie, PhD, MSW is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Arizona State University School of Social Work.
  • Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara's scholarly interests center on how cultural artifacts reflect systems of inequality and injustice, while also providing models for how to fight inequalities and transform our communities.
  • Chelsea Haines works on critical studies of citizenship, comparative borderlands, and material and ideological imaginings of land, landscape, and environment in modern and contemporary art.
  • Oloruntobi's research focuses on the narrative and perceptual shifts informed by the mainstreaming of African media products, specifically Afrobeats, and their implications for global Black relationalities.