People

The Faces of the Department

Faculty & Instructors

  • Carolin Aronis

    • Assistant Professor, Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies
    • Affiliate Faculty, Communication Studies

    Ethnic Studies

    Dr. Carolin Aronis (she/her/היא) is a scholar of critical media studies and antisemitism. Her work employs interdisciplinary methodologies to explore the intersections of technology, rhetoric, identity, and memory. She studies systems of hate, violence, and exclusion, usually related to race,...

  • Ray Black

    • Associate Professor

    Ethnic Studies

    An Associate Professor of African American Studies (history, arts, media, resistance and protest), and his research focuses on retention and graduation rates of African American students at Historically/Predominantly White Institutions (HWIs or PWIs), Critical Race Theory (CRT), equity in K-12...

  • Roe Bubar

    • Professor

    Ethnic Studies

    Roe Bubar, J.D. is Professor of Ethnic Studies, Joint Appointed in the School of Social Work and Affiliate Faculty in Women's Studies. Roe is a nationally recognized trainer and expert in interviewing children in child sexual abuse cases and her...

  • Tom Cavanagh

    • Instructor

    Ethnic Studies

    I reside in Fort Collins, Colorado, right next to the Rocky Mountains, where I spend time hiking in the summer and snowshoeing in the winter. I have degrees from four post-high school institutions, including graduate degrees in Organizational Leadership from...

  • Sushmita Chatterjee

    • Professor and Department Chair

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Dr. Sushmita Chatterjee is Professor and Chair in the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at CSU. She is trained as a feminist and queer political theorist with a dual degree PhD from Penn State in Women’s Studies and...

  • Eileen Connell

    • Senior Instructor

    Ethnic Studies

  • Maricela DeMirjyn

    • Associate Professor

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Maricela DeMirjyn, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, where she also serves as the Graduate Coordinator for the M.A. in Ethnic Studies and the Graduate Certificate in Gender,...

  • Allison Goar-Rogers

    • Senior Instructor

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Allison Goar-Rogers is a Senior Instructor with the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies. A graduate of Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies (Western Washington University) and Colorado State University, she is also a PhD Student in CSU’s School of...

  • Kim JK

    • Professor of Ethnic Studies

    Ethnic Studies

  • Dr. Doreen E. Martinez

    • Associate Professor
    • Program Coordinator

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Dr. Doreen E. Martinez is Mescalero Apache (paternally) and Pennsylvania Dutch (maternally). She is a transnational Indigenous epistemologist with a Sociology PhD. Her scholarly expertise is in Indigenous knowledge systems, research methodologies, visual culture, and, sociopolitical land and environment issues. ...

  • Ernesto Sagás

    • Professor

    Ethnic Studies

    Dr. Ernesto Sagás is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florida with a concentration in Latin American studies. His research focuses on the politics of the Hispanic...

  • Jenne Schmidt

    • Assistant Professor
    • Ethnic Studies Minor Advisor

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Dr. Jenne Schmidt focuses on critical disability theory, queer politics, and environmental studies. Their current research is centered on interrogating the ways that environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip and queer existence/futurity. They refuse the notion that in...

  • Lindsey Schneider

    • Associate Professor

    Ethnic Studies

    Dr. Schneider is an Indigenous (Turtle Mountain Chippewa descendant) feminist scholar whose work focuses on the diverse ways in which tribal nations work to sustain their relationships with the land and its inhabitants. She runs the ISTAR (Indigenous Science Technology...

  • Caridad Souza

    • Associate Professor

    Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies & Gender Research

    Dr. Caridad Souza is an associate professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University (CSU). Her teaching and research interests include racialized gender and sexuality, multiracial and decolonial feminisms,...

Staff

  • Joanna Doxey

    • Academic Success Coordinator

    Joanna Doxey is the Academic Support Coordinator for students majoring in Ethnic Studies, Philosophy, and English. Joanna recently earned her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing with a focus in poetry from CSU. While a graduate student, she...

  • Zenaida Herrera

    • Human Resources Partner
  • Alie Wise

    • Assistant to the Chair

In addition to our staff, the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies is supported by our outstanding work-study students. Please reach out to cla_rges@colostate.edu to contact them.

Graduate Students

  • Breanna Bailey

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Hello! My name is Breanna Marie Bailey (She/Her/Ella) I am a first year Ethnic Studies MA student in the Department of Race, Gender and Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. I earned my BA in Political Science with a double...

  • Amanda A. Espinel

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant, M.A. Student

    My name is Amanda and I use she/her pronouns. I am a first year Ethnic Studies MA student in the Department of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. I earned my BA in History and Women's and...

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