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
David Pellow
Environmental Studies Program
Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Cluster
Emiko Saldivar Tanaka
Anthropology
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Hangping Xu
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Jaime Alves
Black Studies
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation Cluster
Ken Hiltner
English
Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Cluster
Manaíra Athayde
Orfalea Center
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Mireille Miller-Young
Feminist Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Mona Damluji
Film and Media Studies
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Raquel Pacheco
Anthropology
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Richard Widick
Orfalea Center
Environmental & Climate Justice Studies Cluster
Satyajit Singh
Political Science
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Stephan Miescher
History
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Utathya Chattopadhyaya
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Xiaorong Li
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Bhaskar Sarkar
Film and Media Studies
Global Futures Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Cluster
Charmaine Chua
Global Studies
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Debanuj DasGupta
Feminist Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Felice Blake
English
Global Carceral States Cluster
Howard Chiang
East Asian Languages &
Cultural Studies
Global Genders & Sexualities Cluster
Juan Cobo Betancourt
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Lisa Hajjar
Sociology
Global Carceral States Cluster
Melody Jue
English
Future Infrastructures: Water, Energy, Justice Cluster
Mhoze Chikowero
History
Resistance, Autonomy, Liberation 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
Sherene Seikaly
History
Social Data and the Archive Cluster
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Global Studies
Global Migration and Inequality Cluster
Walid Afifi
Communication
Global Futures: Uncertainty, Displacement, Security Cluster
