WWU / Fairhaven College of Interdiscipinary Studies
American Cultural Studies Faculty & Staff
Larry J. Estrada
(Fairhaven College) Director of American Cultural Studies. Coordinator of the ACS major and ACS minor. Race and ethnicity in America; Chicana-Hispano studies; urban multicultural education; U.S.-Mexican relations. Video | Site
360-6500-3016
Jeanne Armstrong
(Wilson Library) Research strategies; multicultural studies; women’s studies; cultural studies; post-colonial literature.
360-650-7667
Marie Eaton
(Fairhaven College) WWU. Minorities and education; gay/ lesbian/ bisexual/ transgender studies.
360-650-3104
Chris Friday
(History Dept.) Asian American and Native American studies; immigration; labor; Pacific Northwest and U.S. West studies.
360-650-4862
Carol Guess
(English Dept), WWU: Coordinator of the GLBT Studies minor Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry writing, queer studies. Blog
360-650-7385
Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez
(Fairhaven College) WWU. Chicano/Latino studies; comparative cultural studies, immigration, social justice and the U.S. legal system.
Steve Hoffman
(American Cultural Studies) American Judaism and Jewish Religious Practices.
360-650-9103
Vernon Johnson
(Political Science Dept.) Culture and politics of African societies; African American studies; the civil rights movement in America.
360-650-4874
Rosanne Kanhai-Brunton
(English) Feminist literary theory; postcolonial literatures; African American literature; imaginative literature by women of color.
360-650-3226
James Loucky
(Anthropology Dept.). Immigration policy; Native American cultures; Latin and Latin American cultures; United States-Mexico border policy. Site
360-650-3615
Bill Lyne
(English Dept), WWU: Coordinator of African American studies minor African American literature; cultural studies; cultural theory.
360-650-3234
Mary Janell Metzger
(English Department) Critical theory; women's literature; Shakespeare and his contemporaries; and English Studies methodologies.
360-650-3238
Kate Miller
(Women Studies) Women studies, comparative racial and ethnic studies, multiracial identity, GLBT studies.
360-650-6305
Raquel Montoya-Lewis
(Fairhaven College) Law; Federal and traditional/customary Indian law; theories of jurisprudence; social welfare systems and social work practice; GLBT studies; identity (racial, cultural, gender) studies.
360-650-2328
Dave Oreiro
(Northwest Indian College) Native American experience; contemporary Native American issues; Native American higher education.
Tara Perry
(Communications Dept.) Communication cultural/critical studies; students with disAbilities in higher education; service learning; issues of diversity in teaching and learning.
360-650-2202
John Purdy
(English Dept) Native American literature; ethnic perspectives on literary theory.
360-650-3243
Marsha Riddle Buly
(Woodring College of Education) Literacy and historically marginalized students; English as a Second Language; Bilingual Education.
360-650-7348
Lysa Rivera
(English Dept) Coordinator of the Raza Latina minor. Chicano and Chicana Literatures and African American Literatures.
360-650-2517
Dan First Scout Rowe
Rae Lynn Schwartz-Dupre
(Communications Dept) Communication and critical/cultural studies; rhetorical theory and criticism; visual rhetoric; feminist post-colonial theory and criticism.
RaeLynn.Schwartz-DuPre@wwu.edu
360-650-4212
Tanis S'eiltin
(Fairhaven College) Coordinator of American Indian Studies Minor. Native American Issues; Native American art forms; art and creativity.
360-650-6564
Mart Stewart
(History Dept.) African American history, cultural history of science and the environment.
360-650-3455
Midori Takagi
(Fairhaven College) Coordinator of the Asian American Studies minor U.S. history; African American history; comparative racial and ethnic studies. Video
360-650-7381
Ning Yu
(English Dept) Asian American literature; Asian mythology; 19th Century American literature and Science.
360-650-2887
