Faculty and staff

All faculty teach courses in Human Development and Human Rights

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Hajra Aziz

Community Liaison

CCPA Human Development
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Jakob Feinig

Associate Professor

CCPA Human Development
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Laura Hill

Associate Professor

CCPA Human Development

Collegiate Professor, Apartments Community

Residential Life

Research Interests

  • African-American History
  • Africana Studies
  • Black Economic Movements
  • Black Liberation/Theology
  • Carceral Studies
  • Critical Race Theory
  • History of Race and Gender
  • Immigration and Ethnicity
  • Public History and Preservation
  • Social Movements
  • US History
  • Voting Rights
  • Women鈥檚 History/Studies
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Rubayat Jesmin

Lecturer

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Human Migration

  • Refugee issues (particularly, refugee women and children)

  • Human Rights

  • Public financial management

  • Economic governance

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Felina Leonard

Administrative Assistant 1

CCPA Human Development
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Suzy Lee

Associate Professor and Director, MS in Human Rights

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Migration Policy
  • Labor Law and Policy
  • Economic Development
  • Political Economy
  • Comparative History
  • Transnationalism/Globalization
  • Human Rights
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Megan McCabe

Coordinator of Academic Advising and Student Services

CCPA Human Development
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Ren茅 Rojas

Associate Professor

CCPA Human Development

LACAS Faculty Affiliate

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Research Interests

  • Latin American politics and development

  • Social foundations of collective action

  • Working-class political formation

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Maribel Tineo

Lecturer

CCPA Human Development
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Chandiren Valayden

Assistant Professor

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Theories of race and racism
  • Counterinsurgency and policing
  • Right-wing political extremism
  • Political geography and theories of space
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Marguerite Wilson

Chair and Associate Professor

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Race, class, gender and sexuality in schools

  • Racially disproportionate school discipline

  • Community-based research, critical ethnography and autoethnography

  • Racial identity development in individuals and organizations

  • Cultural contexts of child development, childhood and parenthood

  • Matrescence, solo parenthood and queer parenthood

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Leo Wilton

Professor

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professor

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Professor

CCPA Human Development

Research Interests

  • Health disparities and inequities (HIV prevention and care)
  • Black psychological development and mental health
  • Critical community-based participatory research
  • Mixed- and multi-methods research
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Denise Yull

Associate Professor

CCPA Human Development

In Memoriam

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Lubna Chaudhry