by Anita Weiss, Professor and Head, Department of International Studies

by Lamia Karim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, and Associate Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society

Sangita Gopal, recently tenured associate professor of English, grew up in Calcutta and moved to the United States to attend graduate school at the University of Rochester in upstate New York, where she studied literary theory and film studies. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 2004. Her book Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema, is due out in fall 2011 from the University of Chicago Press. She coedited the book Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (Gopal & Moorti, University of Minnesota Press, 2008). 

by Bryna Goodman, Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies

by Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Associate Professor, Department of English

by Alisa Freedman, Associate Professor, Japanese Literature and Film, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures 

by Analisa Taylor, Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages

by Aletta Biersack, Professor, Department of Anthropology

by Stephanie Teves, Assistant Professor, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies

Acting as a subtle form of resistance to settler colonialism, a film and play about a Hawaiian Kingdom princess who died more than a hundred years ago allows Native Hawaiians to honor Ka‘iulani by thinking about her life and that of the Kingdom critically.

by Gina Herrmann, Associate Professor of Spanish, Romance Languages