Department Faculty

 

Jeffrey Tobin
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Anthropology, Rice University
Email: tobin@oxy.edu
Phone: x2987

Jeff Tobin teaches courses on theories of sexuality, machismo, critical ethnography, and psychoanalysis.

   
 

Elizabeth J. Chin
Professor
Ph.D., Anthropology, CUNY
Email: ejc@oxy.edu
Phone: x2524
Website: http://faculty.oxy.edu/ejc/

Elizabeth Chin teaches courses on race, children, education, dance in the African diaspora, performative writing, and consumption.

   
 

Mary Christianakis
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Education, University of California, Berkeley
Email: mary@oxy.edu
Phone: x2580
Website: http://college.oxy.edu/christianakis

Mary Christianakis teaches courses on language, literacy, and culture. 

   
 

G. Elmer Griffin
Professor
Ph.D., Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary
Email: elmer@oxy.edu
Phone: x2799

Elmer Griffin teaches courses on stupidity, rastafari and the African diaspora, whiteness, critical blackness, clinical psychology, and Freud.

   
 

Heather Lukes
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, UCLA
Email: lukes@oxy.edu
Phone: tba

Heather Lukes teaches courses on queer theory, queer color critique, queer LA, and psychoanalysis.

   
 

Donna Maeda
Professor
Ph.D., Religion and Social Ethics, USC
J.D., Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley)
Email: maeda@oxy.edu
Phone: x2856

Donna Maeda teaches courses on race, gender and "justice," women of color, trafficking, postcolonial theory, and critical race theory.

 

Affiliated Faculty and Links to Department Websites

Linda Besemer
Robert Ellis
Gabrielle Foreman
Regina Freer
Jan Lin
Amy Lyford
Lisa Sousa
Arthur St. Aubin
Jean Wyatt
Esther Yau
Art History and Visual Arts
Spanish and French Literary Studies
English and Comparative Literature Studies
Politics
Sociology

Art History and Visual Arts
History

Spanish and French Literary Studies
English and Comparative Literature Studies
Art History and Visual Arts
 

 

Occidental College
Critical Theory and Social Justice Department