Professor Mee-Ju Ro's research focuses on Asian American literatures, more specifically transpacific women's writings. She also works with Korean texts and their English translations. Both her research and teaching engage with women's writing, race & gender studies, translation theory, performance, and frames that disarticulate national paradigms.
Professor Hopkins is a theologian working in the areas of contemporary models of theology, various forms of liberation theologies (especially black and other third-world manifestations), and East-West cross-cultural comparisons.
Professor Heo is an anthropologist of religion, media, and economy. Her research and teaching at the University of Chicago's Divinity School covers a range of topics related to the critical study of global Christianities in the modern world. These topics explore the intersection of everyday religious practices with colonial and national institutions of rule, along with political economies of development and globalization.
Professor Choi researches how race, ethnicity and culture fundamentally shape the development of minority and immigrant youth, a growing demographic in the US. She is interested in how these preteens and teens manage family and peer group pressures and wrestle with stereotypes, and how these pressure impact their mental health and academic performance.
Professor Matthew Briones' research focuses on comparative race relations, Asian/Pacific islander American history, African American history, interracial and interethnic coalitions and conflicts, immigration, transnationalism, especially between the United States and the Philippines.