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Professor of Geography
Director, Committee on Social Theory
Product certification--Organic, fairtrade, biodiversity, Political Ecology, political economy, Commodity Chains and Networks, Latin America (with emphasis on Mexico and Central America), Agrarian Studies, Marxist Cultural and Social Theory
871 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-1316
Associate Professor
Director of Bachelor of Liberal Studies
New and Emerging Media, Visual Rhetorics, Image Theory, Ethics, Analog and Digital Technologies, Digital Technologies, Composition and communication pedagogy, Video Games
1307 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-8337
Assistant Professor, Information Science
Classification, library history, Gender and Sexuality Studies, critical information studies
341 Lucille Little Library
859-218-2294
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Marie Rich Endowed Professor
gender violence, 'Migration', Latin America, race and racialization, intersectionality, Critical Social Theory, masculinities, return migration, motherhood, exclusion and belonging, Latinxs in the U.S.
Professor of English
Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Literature and Culture
1203 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6961
Associate Professor of Sociology
Agrarian Studies, Environmental Justice, Social Action, Social Theory, Rural Politics, political economy
1539 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-4414
Assistant Professor
1567 Patterson Office Tower
(859)-257-6883
Professor, Department of Linguistics
Director, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies Program
Linguistics
1673 Patterson Office Tower
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Law, Social Theory, Masculinities Studies, violence, Marriage and Kinship
214 Breckinridge Hall
859-257-4372
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Aesthetics, Kant, Hegel, Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy, History of Modern Philosophy
1421 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor of Russian Studies
University Senate (A&S Humanities Representative, 2020-2023)
Interim Director, Undergraduate Certificate in International Film Studies
Research Leadership Academy, Track 1
Russian Literature, Language Pedagogy, Theater and Performance studies, Poetry and Poetics, Film and visual culture, environmental and sustainability studies
1053 Patterson Office Tower
Assistant Professor
Modern U.S. history, Social movements history, Labor and working class history and politics, History of race and ethnicity, U.S. Latinx history and politics, Immigration history, Nativism and xenophobia, Oral history and memory
1721 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-1043
Assistant Professor of English
Classical Hollywood Cinema, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, 20th Century American Literature, Modernism, Film
1365 Patterson Office Tower
PhD Candidate
everyday geographies, intergenerational justice, critical pedagogy, Urban Geographies, Queer and Feminist Geographies, Political Geographies, Asian Studies, cultural geography, urban nighttime/public space
(859) 257-6956
Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Coordinator of Translation Studies and Spanish for the Professions
20th Century Peninsular Theatre, Gender Performance, Feminist Theatre, translation studies
1161 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-5763
Assistant Professor
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Reproductive Ethics, Bioethics, Kantian Ethics
1401 Patterson Office Tower
Assistant Professor of Hebrew
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Professor, Otis A. Singletary Professorship of the Humanities
Postcolonial Mexico; Latin American culture and society; gender history, History and Biography, War and Gender
1771 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-4344
Assistant Professor
Early Modern Atlantic World, Slavery and African Diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean, Environmental History
1757 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-1859
Professor of Anthropology
Past Chair (2016-2021) Anthropology Dept.
Past Editor (2011-2015), Economic Anthropology (Wiley Blackwell Journal)
Political Ecology, Sustainability and Environmental Change, Household Political Economy, Kinship-Family and Social Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia, Gwembe Tonga Research Project, Qualitative Methods, Digital Data Management, gender, aging and life course, livelihoods, Migration and New Land Settlement, Politcal Economy
201A Lafferty Hall
859 257-2796
Ph. D. Candidate (ABD)
Spanish Instructor
Research Assistant at UK College of Nursing
Sociolinguistics, Multimodal Discourse, Religion and Political Discourse, Demagoguery and Populism, Political Rhetoric
1102 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies through June 2018
Recipient of one of the four 2013-14 A&S Outstanding Teaching Awards
Recipient of one of the two 2016 A&S Awards for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion
francophone, colonial, sexuality, gender, Race, Caribbean and New World Studies, Postcolonial Studies, African Studies
PhD Candidate
Democracy and Environmental Governance, Political Ecology, Political Geography, social networks, Water (Pollution), State and development, gender, fair trade
822 Patterson Office Tower
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of History
Director, Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
African-American History since 1865, Women's and Gender History, Biography, Intellectual History, political history
1715 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-1731, 859-257-2284
Associate Professor
South African history; microhistory; public history, African History, Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human Rights, data visualization, Virtual and Augmented Reality, new military history
1749 Patterson Office Tower
steve.davis@uky.edu
Assistant Professor of Russian Studies
Russian Literature, Film Studies, Animal Studies, Critical Theory, Posthumanist Theory, Gender and Queer Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Intellectual History
1051 Patterson Office Tower
732-687-6384
PhD Candidate
Graduate Instructor
Geography
Food justice, Race & racism, Appalachia, Political Ecology, political economy, Black geographies, Queer & Feminist geographies, Critical Social Theory
1422 Patterson Office Tower
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History
Chair of Hispanic Studies
Marie Rich Endowed Professor
Indigenous peoples and religion, Race, Coloniality, Visual studies, Women's writings, Gender and ethnic identity, Cultural studies, Catholic studies
1105 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-7091
1218 Patterson Office Tower
257-6990
College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor
Professor of Geography
immigration, transnationalism, Refugees, Europe, United States, Urban, Geopolitics, feminist geographies, Political Geography
863 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6952
Assistant Professor
African American Rhetoric, Literacy Studies, Civil Rights & Black Power Movements, Rhetorical History, Rhetorical Education, Prison Studies
1335 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 218-0690
Activism, Media Activism and Advocacy, Information Science and Technology, Sociotechnical Infrastructures, Disasters
320 Lucile Caudille Little Library
Assistant Professor
African Diaspora, film and media studies, Contemporary Africa and Post-colonial/Decolonial Theories, Global South Studies, Brazil and Latin America, Gender and ethnic identity, ethnography, African African American and Caribbean Literature and Culture, Film, Multicultural American literature
1331 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-4376
Assistant Professor
Disasters and Crises, Black Ecologies, Emergency Management and Response, Mapping and GIS, International Development, Anthropology of the State, Black Feminist Theory, Narrative Research, Embodiment and Exposure
208 Lafferty Hall
Postdoctoral Scholar
Coordinator of Elementary Language Instruction
Transatlantic Studies, Coloniality, Hispanic Heritage and Critical Preservation, Urban Studies, History of Education, Inclusive Pedagogies
1141 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-4640
Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Sociology
sociology of education, education policy, social networks, intergenerational mobility, organizational theory
145C Taylor Education Building
859-257-9884
Assistant Professor
Japan Studies
Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, Modernity and Modernism, Film and Visual Studies
1065 Patterson Office Tower
Lecturer in Urban Science and Planning, MIT
PhD Candidate
History of Geocomputation, Critical GIS, Mapping, Spatial Analysis, Archives, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Urban Design, GIS
Associate Professor
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Literature and Culture, Film, Masculinities Studies
1227 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6978
PhD Student & Teaching Assistant
place attachment, identity, emotional geographies, mountain geographies, Alaska and the American West, Phenomenology of Place, Social Theory
818 Patterson Office Tower
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