People

Leslie J. Fernandez

Program DirectorLecturer in Asian American Studiesleslie_fernandez@fas.harvard.edu

Raquel Vega-Durán

Faculty Chair of Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard UniversitySenior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literaturervegaduran@fas.harvard.edu

Genevieve Butler

Academic Programs CoordinatorCurriculum & Catalog Manager; Communications, Website, Newsletter; Student Activities/Events; EMR Circulating Library and Physical Spaces. gbutler@g.harvard.edu

Fatimah Mateen

Finance and Operations CoordinatorFinancial Procedures, Budgets, Expenditures; EMR Summer Thesis Research Grant and EMR Thesis Prize. fatimah_mateen@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer in Latinx Studies, EMR Latinx Studies Working Group (LSWG) Faculty Advisor, teaching EMR 167: Critical Afro-LatinX Studies in the US, and EMR 170: LatinX Decolonial Healing in Literature and Visual Arts in Spring 2025.abousogavin@fas.harvard.edu

Jung Ja Choi

Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Dr. Choi will teach EMR 171 Korean and Korean American Literature, Culture & Media (Fridays 12-2:45 PM) in Spring 2025.choi2@fas.harvard.edu

Lewis d’Avigdor

Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, Dr. d’Avigdor will teach EMR 173: Indigeneity Against Settler-Colonialism (Mondays 3-5:45 PM) in Spring 2025.

Leslie J. Fernandez

I am the Program Director for the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights (EMR) and Lecturer of Asian American Studies. I advise students pursuing secondary fields in EMR under the headings of EMR and Latino Studies and direct EMR’s curricular and co-curricular programming. I also teach courses on Asian American studies, AI, and critical race &leslie_fernandez@fas.harvard.edu

Mandy Izadi

Lecturer in Native American and Indigenous Studies and of History & Literature, Dr. Izadi will teach HL90HB: Indigenous Economies and Environments (Wednesdays, 12:45-2:45 PM) in Spring 2025. mandyizadi@fas.harvard.edu

Soham Patel

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History; Dr. Patel will teach EMR 164: Global Rebellion: Race, Solidarity, Decolonization in Spring 2025. sohampatel@fas.harvard.edu

Andi T. Remoquillo

Lecturer on History & Literature, Dr. Remoquillo will be teaching EMR 172: Space, Place, Belonging: (Re)Locating the Asian/American Experience (Thursdays 9-11:45 AM) in Spring 2025). andi_remoquillo@fas.harvard.edu

Jacinda Tran

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Dr. Tran will teach EMR 169: War Ecologies in Spring 2025. jtran@fas.harvard.edu

Raquel Vega-Durán

Faculty Chair of Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, Harvard University, and Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic Film and Literature, Dr. Vega-Durán will teach EMR 168: Narrating the Border: Migration and Media (co taught with NYT photojournalist Kirsten Luce) in Spring 2025. rvegaduran@fas.harvard.edu