CHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT: Professor Ross
DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Professor Walkowitz

The Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) is transdisciplinary, combining topics and methodologies from the humanities and social sciences. Its faculty and students work in a broad range of fields, analyzing the social and cultural relationships between individuals, groups, institutions, and governments. In the department, a commitment to historical inquiry coexists with applied knowledge about such modern developments as intensified urbanization, transnational trade and exchange, and migration of peoples.

SCA houses and integrates the activities of six interdisciplinary programs—Africana Studies, American Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latino Studies, and Metropolitan Studies—along with the range of degrees and concentrations offered in these programs. In their teaching and research, SCA students and faculty are encouraged to make intersectional links between the areas of interest on which the programs focus. New York City is a crucible for the department's work, both in its community orientation and its connections to global networks.

Study in SCA thus provides excellent background for careers in such fields as community organizing, legal advocacy, nonprofit administration, public policy, and urban and regional planning, among many others. SCA students can elect to major in social and cultural analysis or to major or minor in one of the following interdisciplinary programs within the department: Africana Studies, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latino Studies, or Metropolitan Studies. The department also offers a minor in American Studies. For detailed information, see the entries for these individual programs in this bulletin.

Faculty

Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature:
Harper

Silver Professor; Professor of Spanish and Portuguese:
Pratt

Professors:
Brenner, Dash, Dávila, Dinshaw, Duggan, Flores, Kulick, Molotch, Morgan, Ross, Stacey, Walkowitz, Willis

Associate Professors:
Amkpa, Blake, Gopinath, Guerrero, Johnson, Saldaña, Sandhu, Siu, Tchen, Zaloom

Assistant Professors:
Parikh, Rademacher, Ralph

Visiting Professor:
Rosaldo

Clinical Associate Professor:
Hinton

Assistant Professors/Faculty Fellows:
Hooper, Montez, Pham