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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Stephen-Paul Martin, Ph.D. (New York University 1983), has published more than 20 books of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including "The Gothic Twilight," a book of stories nominated for the National Critics Circle fiction award in 1993. Between 1980 and 1996, Martin edited "Central Park Magazine" in New York City. His writing has appeared in more than 200 magazines and journals over the past 25 years. He has taught literature and writing classes at New York University, City University of New York, The New School for Social Research, the University of California, San Diego and the University of San Diego. He has been teaching at SDSU since 1996.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Kate Swanson, Ph.D. (University of Toronto 2005), is an urban geographer specializing in poverty, exclusion and Latin America.  Her areas of interest include: urban restructuring, begging and informal sector strategies, labor migration, youth identities and childhood, racialization of indigenous peoples, and gender and public space. She is presently working on a book emerging from her doctoral research, which is concerned with migrant indigenous women and children on the streets of Ecuador's largest cities.

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Adam Branch, Ph.D. (Columbia University 2007), studies human rights, conflict resolution, transnational justice and international law, with an empirical emphasis on the war-afflicted regions of Africa.  His current research examines the impact of humanitarian intervention in Northern Uganda and is based on extensive fieldwork in the region.  The project attends to the negative as well as positive dimensions of intervention, examining the organizational bias of international agencies and showing how actions intended to foster peace can sometimes undermine local democracy.  He already has published a number of articles, including papers in "African Studies Quarterly" and "Ethics and International Affairs," and his fieldwork has been supported by Human Rights Focus and the Ford Foundation for Eastern Africa.

DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Alda Blanco, Ph.D. (UC San Diego 1983), specializes in cultural and literary studies of modern Spain (1800 to the present). The main focus of her publications has been on gender, feminism and women writers, and she has devoted much of her research to the feminist-socialist writer María Martínez Sierra. Another area of interest includes the cultural history and memory-making of Spanish exile. Her current book-length project, "Writing the Spanish Empire," has taken her into the field of trans-Atlantic studies.

DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN’S STUDIES
Anh Hua, Ph.D. (York University 2005), focuses on personal and collective memory, cultural trauma, identity, home, migration, nationhood and cultural resistance by oppressed groups in her interdisciplinary research. Her approach combines critical race feminism, cultural studies, diaspora and transnational studies, literary and film studies.  Her work analyzes how women of color and other oppressed groups deploy memory and cultural trauma in their cultural texts (fiction, memoir, film and visual arts) to understand identity, community, home, displacement, nationhood, and resistance.  This now includes the role memory and trauma play in narratives around 9/11 and the Iraq War.  She is also interested in how women of color create memory narratives to rewrite official history and the nation in order to work through personal and historical traumas.

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