Notes on Contributors

Nivea Castaneda Acrey is a first-generation Chicana and daughter of immigrants from Jalisco, Mexico. She serves as director of Impact and Systems' Change at Caminar Latino - Latinos United For Peace and as a therapist at her private practice. Dr. Castaneda Acrey works on projects that center different forms of generational trauma that Latinx families survive. Her research and modes of therapy draw on Indigenous storytelling methods and ways of knowing.

Isra Ali is a feminist scholar teaching in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her work focuses on questions related to citizenship, primarily in relationship to feminism and the production of cultural knowledge about militarism.

Godfried Asante is an associate professor of communication, culture, and difference in the School of Communication Studies at San Diego State University. He was born in Ghana and was raised there until moving to the United States for higher education. His research focuses on queer intercultural communication, transnational sexual politics, and postcolonial studies.

Ahmet Atay is a professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; political and social complexities of city life, such as immigrant and queer experiences; the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies.

Omotayo O. Banjo is a professor of communication in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She is a second-generation Nigerian American whose work focuses on the relationship between identity and media. Namely, film, television, and music produced by Black and African diasporic storytellers.

Bernadette Marie Calafell is the inaugural chair and professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Gonzaga University. She has co-edited four books and authored Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture.

Santhosh Chandrashekar is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Denver, which is located on unceded lands of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe people. His work examines how caste intersects with race and other axes of social stratification in India and in the Indian diaspora in ways that are not always legible when examined through US-centric framework. His work has appeared in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, among others, and in edited anthologies.

Devika Chawla is the Stocker Professor of Interpersonal Communication in Ohio University. She teaches and writes on matters of migration, home and family life, material culture, and affect in the context of contemporary urban north India. She is the author of Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India's Partition published by Fordham University Press.

Yea-Wen Chen is a professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University. She is a US-based immigrant mother-scholar born and raised in Taiwan. Her research agenda focuses on communicating cultural identities from the margins in the contexts of immigrant women faculty in US academia, pan-Asian organizing, and critical intercultural communication pedagogy.

Josue David Cisneros is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching focus on critical rhetoric and critical intercultural communication, especially issues of immigration, Latinx and Latin American politics, race/ethnicity, and social movements.

Kristen L. Cole is an associate professor of Critical Health Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University. Her research investigates rhetorics of identity, agency, and pathology, particularly as they intersect with discourses of gender, race, sexuality, and disability.

Antonio Tomas De La Garza is an associate professor of Rhetoric at California State University San Marcos. He a culture worker, advocate, and organizer who specializes in decolonial peace building initiatives. He is a Kroc Border Fellow and the Co-Founder of The University Without Borders. He is currently serving as the Ricardo Flores Magón Scholar in Residence for the Contra Viento y Marea Comedor and the Escuela Libre in Tijuana, Mexico, where he designs and implements curricula to build resilience and support for refugees and unhoused people in Tijuana.

Sarah De Los Santos Upton is an associate professor of communication in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. She is a mixed-race Chicana born, raised, and currently living and teaching in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. She works on projects related to Latina/o/x communication studies and critical intercultural health communication.

Kristin L. Drogos is a research investigator in the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. She is a media psychologist whose research focuses on the role of media in the socialization of youth, including adolescent development of self and identity, mediated representation of identity and stereotypes, and social cognition processes.

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka is an associate professor of intercultural communication in the Faculty of Communication, Culture, and Society at Università dell Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland. She was born in Poland and has lived most of her life in the United States, but now lives in Switzerland. Her work focuses on discourses of public memories and various questions related to migration.

Mohan Dutta is dean's chair professor of communication. He is the director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), developing culturally centered, community-based projects of social change, advocacy, and activism that articulate health as a human right. Mohan Dutta's research examines the role of advocacy and activism in challenging marginalizing structures, the relationship between poverty and health, political economy of global health policies, the mobilization of cultural tropes for the justification of neo-colonial health development projects, and the ways in which participatory culture-centered processes and strategies of radical democracy serve as axes of global social change.

Shinsuke Eguchi is a professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Their research interests focus on global and transcultural studies, queer of color critique, intersectionality and racialized gender politics, Asian/American studies, and performance studies. They are author of Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics (Peter Lang, 2022). Their recent solo-authored and co-authored work has appeared for publication in Communication, Culture, and Critique, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Review of Communication, Western Journal of Communication, Women's Studies in Communication, and Journal of Homosexuality. They are co-editor of Intercultural Communication in Japan (2017, Routledge), co-editor of Queer Intercultural Communication (2020, Rowman & Littlefield), and co-editor of De-Whitening Intersectionality (2020, Lexington Press).

Deanna L. Fassett is Professor of Communication Pedagogy at San José State University, where she served as Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Development from 2019-2023. In addition to co-authoring or co-editing books on critical communication pedagogy, her work concerns equitable and inclusive faculty and student success.

Sarah Amira De la Garza is the inaugural Southwest Borderlands scholar at Arizona State University. She is a Chicana whose life work across the areas of study of communication and culture celebrates the revolutionary spirit of her ancestors: Basque, Lipan, Rarámuri, Sephardic, from the lands now called Texas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Castilla y León, and Euskadi. Her work promotes decolonizing praxis through embodied Indigenous inquiry and critical cultural methodologies of resistance as Mindful Heresy.

Robert Gutierrez-Perez is an assistant professor of critical/cultural studies in communication at California State University, San Marcos. His research interests includes critical intercultural communication, performance studies, LGBTQ and Jotería studies, queer spirituality, and decolonial theory and methodology.

Rona Tamiko Halualani is a professor of intercultural communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San José State University. She is a diasporic Native Hawaiian born and raised on the continent and specifically, on Ramaytush and Ohlone Native land. She works on projects related to critical intercultural communication studies, critical indigenous studies, Pacific cultural studies, and diasporic memories of be/longing. She is a former editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Richie Neil Hao is an associate professor and chair in the Department of Communication Studies at Antelope Valley College. He has published in the areas of critical intercultural, pedagogical, and...