Jiang Wu

Jiang Wu

JIANG WU is a Professor in East Asian Studies and Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Arizona. He holds a PhD from Harvard, and his research focuses on 17th-century Chinese Buddhism. Specifically, Professor Wu has focused on Chan/Zen...
E. Charles Adams

E. Charles Adams

E. CHARLES ADAMS, Curator Emeritus, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona. Adams has lived and worked in the Four Corners region for more than 50 years, the last 35 with the Arizona State Museum (ASM). While at ASM, Adams directed research at ancestral Hopi...
Lanin Gyurko

Lanin Gyurko

LANIN GYURKO is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cinema Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. His scholarly output has appeared in prestigious journals throughout the world, and he is the author of eight...
Melissa Fitch

Melissa Fitch

Melissa A. Fitch is a University Distinguished Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies. Since 2010, she has been researching the mutual cultural influences between the Americas and Asia found in popular culture, film, mass media, social media, and digital...
Fabio Lanza

Fabio Lanza

Fabio Lanza is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in the departments of History and East Asian Studies. He is the author of Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing (Columbia, 2010) and coeditor of Decentering Cold War History: Local and Global Change...
Sarah Moore

Sarah Moore

SARAH MOORE is Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Faculty Supervisor for the Museum Studies Certificate Program. She received her PhD in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and is a specialist in the art and visual culture...
Jonathan Overpeck

Jonathan Overpeck

JONATHAN OVERPECK is a climate scientist and founding co-director of the University of Arizona’s Institute of the Environment, as well as Professor of Geosciences and Professor of Atmospheric Sciences. He has published over 140 papers in climate and the environmental...
Cynthia White

Cynthia White

CYNTHIA WHITE is a Professor Emerita in Classics at the University of Arizona and has published widely on Latin pedagogy, Greek and Latin Epithalamia, medieval Latin bestiaries, and Rome’s material culture. Her works include Sublime Cosmos in Greco-Roman...
David Byrne

David Byrne

Professor Emeritus in Entomology, DAVID N. BYRNE attended San Jose State College and got his PhD at the University of Idaho. He then joined the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Science, and taught a variety of courses relating to applied entomology and...
Mary Voyatzis

Mary Voyatzis

MARY VOYATZIS is a Professor of Classical Archaeology in the School of Anthropology and the Department of Classics. She served as Department Head of Classics from 2000-2009. Her research interests focus on the archaeology of ancient Greek religion and ritual,...
George Davis

George Davis

GEORGE DAVIS is Regents’ Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Geosciences, and Provost Emeritus of University of Arizona.  His academic passion focuses on field-based research on tectonics and mountain building, including earthquake geology and...
David Cuillier

David Cuillier

DAVID CUILLIER, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism who focuses on press rights, data journalism, and access to government information. A former newspaper editor and reporter, he joined the UA in 2006 and was director of the school 2011-2018....
Albrecht Classen

Albrecht Classen

ALBRECHT CLASSEN received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1986. He has a broad range of research interests focusing on pre-modern German and European literature and culture.  He has published currently 132 books and well over 800 articles. Most recently,...
J. Pat Willerton

J. Pat Willerton

John P. (Pat) Willerton is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. His professional interests focus on Russia and other former Soviet Union (FSU) countries, with a book and over 60 articles and...
Endre Stavang

Endre Stavang

ENDRE STAVANG is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo and  was a Visiting Scholar in Residence  at the University of Arizona  James E. Rogers College of Law (2012-2013). He initiated the Research Group on Natural Resource Law in Oslo and leads its property team....
Thomas Price

Thomas Price

THOMAS L. PRICE received his BA from Harvard College and his M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  He spent over 20 years as a U.S. diplomat, last posted in Islamabad, Pakistan, and responsible for making contact with warring factions in Afghanistan....
Yuxuf Abana

Yuxuf Abana

Yuxuf Abana, a published poet, writer, musician, and soccer player was born in Ghana, West Africa where he earned a triple major Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, Philosophy, and History. He later moved to Iowa State University, and the University of...
Daisy Vargas

Daisy Vargas

Dr. Daisy Vargas (Ph.D. in History, University of California, Riverside; M.A. in Religious Studies, University of Denver) specializes in Catholicism in the Americas; race, ethnicity, and religion in the United States; and Latina/o religion. Her current project,...
Jay Quade

Jay Quade

JAY QUADE completed his graduate studies at the universities of Arizona and Utah and joined the faculty at Arizona in 1992, where he is currently a full professor. His interests are in low-temperature geochemistry and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. He has worked...
Michael McKenna

Michael McKenna

MICHAEL MCKENNA writes and teaches primarily on the related topics of free will and moral responsibility, but more generally in issues of metaphysics, ethics, action theory, and philosophical psychology. He arrived in Arizona in 2010 and earned his Ph.D. from the...