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Steve Parks

Specializes in the relationship between public narrative, political rights, and participatory social movements. Works with democratic and human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa on research and activist projects, including co-founding Syrians for Truth and Justice, a human rights documentation projected centered in Istanbul and Paris and The Twiza Project, an alliance of MENA region university professors dedicated to supporting dialogues on human rights.

Sylvia Chong

Specializes in film, popular culture, and literature written by or about those of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent, particularly surrounding the Second Indochinese War and its impact on Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the U.S. Also focuses on transnational circulation of East Asian cinemas and popular culture and its impact on U.S. racial politics.

Mrinalini Chakravorty

Specializes in postcolonial literature and film, studies of race, gender, and sexuality, and cultural studies, particularly the various theoretical intersections between these areas including but not limited to transnational approaches to the study of literary culture, aesthetic responses to globalization, modes of minority discourse, and borders and diaspora cultures, particularly in relation to South Asia

Debjani Ganguly

Specializes in Postcolonial Studies, World Literature, Global Anglophone Novel, Literary Forms in the New Media Age, Caste and Dalit Studies, Indian Ocean Literary Worlds, Literature and Human Rights, Technologies of War and Violence, Planetary Humanities