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Oakes Faculty Fellows

All UCSC full-time faculty are expected to affiliate with at least one of the colleges on campus. The faculty affiliated with each college are known as Fellows. The following list summarizes the Faculty Fellows of Oakes College.

Name
Title
Research Area
David Anthony Associate Professor of History African and African-American history, art, music, literature and cinema; Eastern and Southern Africa; African languages; Islamic civilization; African diaspora studies; world history
George R. Blumenthal Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Acting Chancellor The origin of structure in the universe such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies and to determine the role that dark matter (which is detected only through its gravitational effects) plays in the formation and evolution of this structure.
Barry Bowman Professor of MCD Biology The focus of our research has been on the proteins in the lysosomal/vacuolar membranes, using Neurospora crassa as our experimental organism.
Pedro Castillo Associate Professor of History, Provost of Oakes College Chicano/a history and culture; American social and urban history; race, class, and gender.
Louis Chude-Sokei Assistant Professor of Literature Modern and contemporary African-American literature; Caribbean and West African literatures; post-colonial literature and theory; modernism; Black diaspora cultural studies; popular culture.
James Clifford Professor of History of Consciousness History of anthropology, travel, and exoticism; colonial discourse analysis; cultural studies; museum studies.
Chris Connery Associate Professor of Literature World literature and cultural studies; globalism and geographical thought; the 1960s; Marxism; pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies.
Michael Cowan Professor of American Studies American cultural theory and history, history of American Studies, symbolic expression in American life, urban cultural studies, American literary studies, studies in the institutional culture of higher education.
Angela Davis Professor of History of Consciousness Feminism, African American studies, critical theory, popular music culture and social consciousness, philosophy of punishment (women's jails and prisons).
Barbara Epstein Professor of History of Consciousness Social movements and theories of social movements; twentieth-century U.S. politics and culture; Marxism and related theories of social change.
James B. Gill Professor of Earth Sciences Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs
Susan Gillman Professor of Literature Nineteenth-century American literature and culture; theories of culture, race, and gender; world literature and cultural studies.
Kirsten Silva Gruesz Associate Professor of Literature Comparative Americas studies; Chicano/Latino literatures and cultures; nineteenth-century U.S. literature; poetry and translation; genre theory.
Donna Haraway Professor of History of Consciousness & Feminist Studies Science, technology, and medicine studies; feminist theory; relations between life and human sciences; histories of animal-human relationships; cultures of nature and environment; science and politics.
Yvette Huginnie Assistant Professor of American Studies Race and class relations in western American history, U.S. Labor and immigration history, and comparative ethnic studies.
Sharon Kinoshita Professor of Literature Medieval French literature and culture; pre- to post-colonial discourse; world literature and cultural studies.
David S. Kliger Professor of Chemistry, Executive Vice-Chancellor Physical Chemistry
Biophysics
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy
Teresa de Lauretis Professor of History of Consciousness Semiotics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary theory, feminism, lesbian and queer studies.
David Marriot Associate Professor of History of Consciousness Academic Interests: Literary theory; psychoanalysis; black cultural theory and philosophies of race; the literary and visual cultures of modernism
Pradip K. Mascharak Professor of Chemistry Inorganic Chemistry
Drug Design
Protein Active Site Modeling
Eric Porter Associate Professor of American Studies Black Cultural and Intellectual history; US Cultural History and Cultural Studies; Comparative Ethnic Studies; Popular Music; Jazz Studies; Race, Science, and Technology.
Catherine Ramirez Assistant Professor of American Studies Chicana and U.S. Latino literature, culture, and history; gender studies and feminist theory; visual culture and style politics; cultural studies; popular and urban youth cultures; speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Chicanafuturism; science, technology, race, and gender; theories and methods of American studies.
Renya Ramirez Assistant Professor of American Studies Native American studies, Indian Identity, Native Americans and anthropology, urban Indians, Native American women, cultural citizenship, expressive culture and anti-racist education.
Christina Ravelo Professor of Ocean Sciences Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography; paleoclimatology
Forrest Robinson Professor of American Studies and Literature American literature and culture, the American novel (Twain, Melville, Faulkner), regional literature, California studies, popular culture, and American cultural theory.
Don Rothman Senior Lecturer of Writing Don is interested in the promise of literacy to enhance democracy.  He has published articles on literacy education, the politics of literacy, and on professional development for teachers.
Dan Selden Associate Professor of Literature Greek and Latin literatures; Hellenistic culture; the classical tradition; history of criticism; literary theory.
Mary W. Silver Professor of Ocean Sciences Biological oceanography, marine plankton; midwater ecology
Neferti Tadiar Associate Professor of History of Consciousness Third World feminism; postcolonial theory; critical theories of race and subjectivity; social theory; cultural studies of the Asia Pacific region.
Rob Wilson Professor of Literature Transnational/postcolonial literatures; place, globalization, cultural identity in Asia/Pacific; US cultural poetics; creative writing (local/experimental poetry); "mongrel" poetics; dialectics of globalization/localization; "the sublime".
Adrienne Zihlman Professor of Anthropology Comparative functional anatomy and locomotion of apes and humans; skeletal biology of apes; growth and development in catarrhine primates; sex differences in anatomy and behavior.

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