Faculty & Staff

Robert T. Anderson
Professor of Anthropology
Vera Long 112, 510.430.2193, boba@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Public schools, teacher education, ethnography, human evolution

Ken Burke
Professor of Film Studies
Professor of Art and Art History
Trefethen Faculty Award
Mills Hall Room 342, 510.430.3152, ninak@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Film, communication theory, video production, scriptwriting, social effects of mass media

Héctor Mario Cavallari
Professor of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies
W. M. Keck Foundation Professorship in Creative Writing
Co-Chair, Department of Languages and Literatures
Program Head, Spanish and Spanish American Studies
Mills Hall Room 335, 510.430.2207, xango@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Contemporary Latin American, U.S. Latino, and Iberian fiction, theater, and poetry; Hispanic cultures; critical theory; Hispanic cinema; cultural studies

Fred Frith
Professor of Music
Leave of Absence Spring 2013
Music 3, 510.430.2142, frith@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Composition and songwriting; the performance of both composed and improvised music; collaboration in the fields of theater, dance, and film; improvisational pedagogy

Melinda Micco
Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies
Mills Hall Room 341, 510.430.3324, melinda@mills.edu
Professional Interests: American Indian history; film studies and literature; multiracial identity studies; ethnic identity in tribal communities; indigenous women, nationally and internationally; enrolled member of Seminole Nation of Oklahoma

Julia C. Oparah
Professor of Ethnic Studies
Department Head of Ethnic Studies
Mills Hall Room 343, 510.430.3163, jsudbury@mills.edu
Professional Interests: African diaspora studies, Black British studies, black feminist theory, women of color organizing, transnational prison-industrial complex, women and transgender prisoners

Kirsten Saxton
Associate Professor of English
Mills Hall Room 348, 510.430.2214, ktsaxton@mills.edu
Professional Interests: Women and the law, the history of the novel, 18th-century British literature, post-colonial literature and culture, theories of sexuality, pedagogy and composition studies

Staff

Kristie Kern
Faculty Administrative Assistant
Art Center 121, 510.430.2117, kkern@mills.edu

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