Orfalea Center Team
Paul Amar
Director
Manaíra Athayde
Executive Director & Academic Coordinator
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Associate Director
Weihao Qiu
Graduate Student Researcher | IT Specialist
Amit Ahuja
Interim Director
Omar Mansour
Public Education Academic Coordinator
Bashar Tarabieh
Financial Analyst
UCSB Affiliated Faculty
Amit Ahuja
Political Science
Pluralism and its Practice Cluster
Bishnupriya Ghosh
English & Global Studies
Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Cluster
Debanuj DasGupta
Feminist Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Felice Blake
English
Global Carceral States Cluster
Jaime Alves
Black Studies
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation Cluster
Lisa Hajjar
Sociology
Global Carceral States Cluster
Melody Jue
English
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Nadège T. Clitandre
Global Studies
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation Cluster
Ricado Jacobs
Global Studies
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation Cluster
Sabine Frühstück
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Global Studies
Global Migration and Inequality Cluster
Walid Afifi
Communication
Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Cluster
Bhaskar Sarkar
Film and Media Studies
Global Futures Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Cluster
Charmaine Chua
Global Studies
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Emiko Saldivar Tanaka
Anthropology
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Hangping Xu
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Juan Cobo Betancourt
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Manaíra Athayde
Orfalea Center
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Mireille Miller-Young
Feminist Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Raquel Pacheco
Anthropology
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Richard Widick
Orfalea Center
Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Cluster
Sherene Seikaly
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Xiaorong Li
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
