Regular Faculty
Julie Prebel, Chair
Associate Professor, American Studies; Director of Writing Center & Programs
B.A., UC Berkeley; M.A., Cal State San Francisco; Ph.D., University of Washington
Julie Prebel teaches courses in writing/composition, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies.
Heather Lukes
Associate Professor, American Studies
B.A., UC Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Heather Lukes teaches courses on queer theory, queer color critique, queer L.A., and psychoanalysis.
Xiao-huang Yin
Professor, American Studies
B.A., Nanjing University; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University
Xiao-huang Yin specializes in Asian American studies, U.S.-Asia relations, and modern China.
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Alexandra Fine
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., California College of the Arts; P.h.D., University of California, Davis
Alexandra Fine teaches courses in disability studies, queer theory and sexuality studies, and American studies methods.
Gregory Toy
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA
Antonina Griecci Woodsum
Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies
B.A., M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A., MPhil., P.h.D., Columbia University
Affiliated Faculty
Erica Ball
Mary Jane Hewitt Department Chair in Black Studies; Professor of Black Studies
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Erica L. Ball is a historian who specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century African American history.