Affiliated Faculty Office Hours

Drawing on their expertise and insights, we offer students the chance to engage with our Affiliated Faculty through dedicated Office Hours. Scheduled and prior featured faculty are listed below.

If you’re a student interested in connecting with faculty at the next Office Hours, be sure to check MyLaw or your student email for details. We’ll see you there!

Ann Karagozian

Prof. Karagozian is the Inaugural Director of The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, which was established in early 2020 to be a hub for world-class research and teaching on subjects relevant to Armenia and Armenians, extending its reach across UCLA and to the Republic of Armenia and the diaspora.

Professor Karagozian is a Distinguished Professor and Collins Aerospace Endowed Term Chair for Innovation in the UCLA Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and also serves as a University of California representative on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Armenia Corporation. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and is an elected fellow of several engineering and scientific professional societies.

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Shannon Speed

Professor Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues of indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence, migration, social justice, and activist research.

She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, as well as published six books and edited volumes, including her most recent, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Settler Capitalist State. Dr. Speed currently serves as the Past President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).

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David N. Myers

Professor Myers is Distinguished Professor and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History. He serves as the director of the Luskin Center for History and Policy and directs the UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He previously served as chair of the UCLA History Department (2010-2015) and as director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies (1996-2000 and 2004-2010). He received his A.B. from Yale College in 1982 and undertook graduate studies at Tel-Aviv and Harvard Universities before completing his doctorate at Columbia in 1991.

He has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history. He has authored six books and has edited or co-edited twelve books. Prof. Myers has taught at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Russian State University for the Humanities, visited at the Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem), and been a fellow on three occasions at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (Philadelphia). Since 2003, he has served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review. Myers is an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities. At UCLA, he teaches courses on Jewish history and the history of history.

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