Regular Faculty
Viviana MacManus, Chair
Associate Professor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Viviana Beatriz MacManus’s research and teaching focuses on Latin American and Latinx feminist theory, literature, film, and cultural studies.
Mary Christianakis
Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., UCLA; M. Ed., UCLA; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Mary Christianakis is a professor of language, literacy, and culture. She studies literacy development, language, and discourse from a critical…
Carla M. Macal
Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A. University of California, Irvine; M.A. University of Southern California; Ph.D. University of Oregon
Carla Macal is an interdisciplinary anti-colonial feminist scholar dedicated to community-engaged research addressing the intersections between state…
Ben Ratskoff
Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A. Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Professor Ratskoff specializes in histories and theories of antisemitism, race, and fascism; Holocaust and genocide studies; Black diasporic culture…
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Marisol León
Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Loyola Marymount University; J.D., U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Marisol León teaches courses designed for students committed to social justice and interested in leveraging the law as a tool for positive social…
Malek Moazzam-Doulat
Resident Associate Professor, Critical Theory and Social Justice
B.A., Occidental College; Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
Malek Moazzam-Doulat is a professor in the Critical Theory & Social Justice Department focusing on global responses to modernity. He received his…
Arón Adrian Macal Montenegro
Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A., M.A. American University; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Franchesca Alejandra Ocasio
Visiting Assistant Professor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A. University of California, Irvine; M.A., Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University
Akasham Pace
Visiting Instructor, Critical Theory & Social Justice
B.A. Occidental College; M.Arch. Southern California Insitute of Architecture
Rosie Stockton
Visiting Instructor
B.A. Reed College; M.A. Eastern Michigan University; Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Rosie Stockton’s research focuses on abolitionist feminisms, Black feminist thought, and queer and trans critique to think with political and…