Lender Affiliated Faculty come from across the University to collaborate on key social justice issues. Affiliated Faculty regularly meet together, share their work, and develop new projects.
Kristen Barnes, the associate dean for faculty research and professor of law in the College of Law, teaches and researches property law, housing law, land use, voting rights, and international law.
Patrick W.Berry, an associate professor of Writing and Rhetoric and director of Project Mend, focuses his work on literacy studies, professional writing, and empowering incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals through digital storytelling and higher education.
Renate Chancellor, an associate professor in the School of Information Studies, focuses her research on social justice in informational contexts, human information behavior, and the impacts of racial battle fatigue.
Rachael Goodwin, an assistant professor of Management in the Whitman School, researches leadership obstacles facing minorities and women, workplace attitudes toward sexual harassment, and the impact of dehumanization and perfectionism in professional environments.
Alicia Hatcher, an assistant professor of African American Rhetoric and Literacies, researches Black rhetorical practices and the use of space, place, and embodied performance as tactical tools for social activism and literacy.
Delali Kumavie, an assistant professor in the Department of English, researches global Black literature and migration through the lenses of Black feminisms, science and technology studies, and Black ecologies.
Aaron Luedtke, a historian of the United States and global Indigeneity, focuses his teaching and scholarship on combatting settler colonialism and the historical erasure of Native peoples within the American national narrative.
David Oh, an associate professor of communications in the Newhouse School, researches Asian American representations in popular and digital culture and the intersections of Asian American identity and media.
Jamie Lyn Perry, an assistant professor of Management in the Whitman School of Management, focuses her research on conflict management, diversity, power dynamics, and the effectiveness of teams.