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Mimi Nguyen
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies/Gender and Women's Studies Department at University of Illinois
Email: mimin@illinois.edu
Graduation Year: 2004
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Eliza Noh
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton
Email: enoh@fullerton.edu
Graduation Year: 2002
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Karina Oliva Alvarado
Lecturer
Chicana/o Studies Department at UCLA
Email: karinaoliva@ucla.edu
Graduation Year: 2007
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Agustin Palacios
Assistant Professor
LaRaza Studies Department at Contra Costa College
Email: https://webapps.4cd.edu/apps/directory/search.aspx?campus=ccc
Graduation Year: 2012
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David Palaita
Professor
Interdisciplinary Studies Department at City College of San Francisco
Email: dpalaita@ccsf.edu
Graduation Year: 2015
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Rhacel Parrenas
Professor
Sociology Department at University of Southern California Dornsife
Email: parrenas@usc.edu
Graduation Year: 1998
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Alan Pelaez Lopez
Bio & Research Interests
Alan Pelaez Lopez earned a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley.
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Isabelle Pelaud
Professor
Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University
Email: ipelaud@sfsu.edu
Graduation Year: 1998
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Craig Perez
Associate Professor
English Department at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Email: csperez@hawaii.edu
Graduation Year: 2015
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Kurt Peters
Emeritus Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University
Email: http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/user/2041/contact
Graduation Year: 1994
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Minh-Ha Pham
Associate Professor
History of Art/Visual Studies Department at Pratt Institute
Email: mpham@pratt.edu
Graduation Year: 2006
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Eric Pido
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University
Email: epido@sfsu.edu
Graduation Year: 2011
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Melanie Z. Plasencia
Email: melzp@berkeley.edu
Bio & Research Interests
Melanie Z. Plasencia studies how race, ethnicity, class and gender affect the experiences of historically marginalized older adults in the United States. In her dissertation, Melanie explores the lives of older Latina/o/xs in order to understand how they envision, as well as redefine their well-being post-retirement.
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Darby Price
Communications Instructor
Asian American Studies/Communication/Environmental Management Department at Laney College
Email: dprice@peralta.edu
Graduation Year: 1998
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Jasbir Puar
Professor
Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers University
Email: 848-932-9331
Graduation Year: 1999
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Abraham Ramirez
Email: a_ramirez@berkeley.edu
Advisor: Ramon Grosfoguel
Bio & Research Interests
Abraham Ramirez is a PhD. Candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Program in Critical Theory. His dissertation is on the philosophy of race and consciousness in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and bell hooks. Abraham is a Chancellor’s Public Fellow with the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES), and a Graduate Student in Residence at the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI).
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Catherine Ramirez
Associate Professor
Latin American & Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz
Email: cathysue@ucsc.edu
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Timothy Randazzo
Associate Director of Graduate Teaching and Peer Learning Programs
Center for Teaching and Learning Department at Stanford University
Email: randazzo@stanford.edu
Graduation Year: 2005
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Annette Reed
Director
Native American Studies Department at Sacramento State University
Email: alreed@csus.edu
Graduation Year: 1999
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Ethel Regis
Undergraduate Advisor/Coordinator
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at University of California San Diego
Email: erlu@ucsd.edu
Graduation Year: 2013
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Jennifer Reimer
Assistant Professor
Department of American Culture and Literature Department at Bilkent University
Email: https://twitter.com/tzeniandrea?lang=en
Graduation Year: 2011
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Margaret Rhee
Fellow in Digital Practice
English Department at Harvard University
Email: mrhee@uoregon.edu
Graduation Year: 2014
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Victor Rios
Professor
Sociology Department at UC Santa Barbara
Email: vrios@soc.ucsb.edu
Graduation Year: 2005
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Juana Rodriguez
Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley
Email: juarodriguez@berkeley.edu
Graduation Year: 1998
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Dylan Rodriguez
Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at University of California Riverside
Email: dylan.rodriguez@ucr.edu
Graduation Year: 2001
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Hilda Mercedes Romero
Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary Studies/American Literature/American Studies Department at Sonoma State University
Graduation Year: 2008
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Joanne Rondilla
Lecturer
Asian Pacific American Studies Department at Arizona State University
Graduation Year: 2012
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Horacio Roque Ramirez
Associate Professor (Deceased)
Chicana/o Studies Department at University of California Santa Barbara
Graduation Year: 2001
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Larry Salomon
Lecturer
Ethnic Studies Department at San Francisco State University
Email: lrs@sfsu.edu
Graduation Year: 2005
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Jared Sexton
Associate Professor
African American Studies/Film & Media Studies Department at University of California Irvine
Email: jcsexton@uci.edu
Graduation Year: 2002
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Irum Shiekh
Visiting Professor/Academic Advisor
Ethnic Studies Department at University of Oregon
Email: ishiekh@uoregon.edu
Graduation Year: 2004
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Jaideep Singh
Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at California State University East Bay
Email: jaideep.singh@ csueastbay.edu
Graduation Year: 2008
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Harriett Skye
Vice President of Intertribal Programs (deceased)
Public Education/American Indian College Fund Department at United Tribes Technical College
Email: ----Deceased
Graduation Year: 2007
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Connie So
Senior Lecturer
American Ethnic Studies Department at University of Washington
Email: ccso@uw.edu
Graduation Year: 2000
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James Sobredo
Associate Professor
Asian American Studies/Ethnic Studies Department at Sacramento State University
Email: sobredo@csus.edu
Graduation Year: 1998
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Lilia Soto
Assistant Professor
Latina/o Studies/American Studies Department at University of Wyoming
Email: lsoto1@uwyo.edu
Graduation Year: 2008
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Caridad Souza
Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University
Email: caridad.souza@colostate.edu
Graduation Year: 1995
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Robert Soza
Faculty
English Department at Mesa Community College
Email: robert.soza@mesacc.edu
Graduation Year: 2010
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Gabriela Spears-Rico
Assistant Professor
American Indian Studies/Chicano & Latino Studies Department at University of Minnesota
Email: spearsrg@umn.edu
Graduation Year: 2015
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Winona Stevenson
Associate Professor
Indigenous Studies Department at University of Saskatchewan
Email: (760) 378-3841
Graduation Year: 2000
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Caroline Streeter
Associate Professor
English/African American Studies Department at University of California Los Angeles
Email: streeter@ucla.edu
Graduation Year: 2000
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Sonia Cristina Suárez
Email: sohart@berkeley.edu
Advisor: Ramon Grosfoguel
Bio & Research Interests
Sonia’s research finds that mainstream psychiatric modes of diagnosing people who are identified as Latinx carry racialized, gendered, and sexualized notions of psychopathology among people of color. In particular, this work looks at “cultural concepts of distress” (CCDs), such as Ataque de Nervios, and documents gendered anti-Black and anti-Indigenous stereotypes carried within the literature on CCDs and related topics. She formulates a cross-disciplinary archive of race, gender, science, and psychopathology to reveal how concepts of brujería (Spanish for ‘magic’, or often, ‘witchcraft’) and other examples of non-Western knowledge become pathologized in the existing research and training literature.
Sonia is a Hellman Foundation fellow for her work on race and gender in biomedical systems of psychopathology. Along her path toward Ethnic Studies, Sonia published research in social, organizational, and clinical psychology and studied counseling psychology at the doctoral level. She completed her Bachelor of Science at Northwestern University, not terribly far from her hometown of Cicero, Illinois.
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Kristen Sun
Email: ksun@berkeley.edu
Advisor: Elaine Kim
Bio & Research Interests
Kristen Sun is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She received a MA degree in Comparative Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and a BA in American Studies with minors in Asian American Studies and Film and Media Studies from Northwestern University. Her dissertation focuses on contemporary memorializations of the Korean War in South Korean and U.S. cinema, museums, and memorials. Her research and teaching interests encompass race, gender, war, trauma, memory, U.S. empire in Asia, Cold War cultures and legacies, and transnational Asian American Studies. During her time at Northwestern, Kristen was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. From 2014-2015, Kristen was a Fulbright Junior Researcher in South Korea.
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Thomas Swensen
Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at Colorado State University
Graduation Year: 2011
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Daphne Taylor-Garcia
Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at University of California San Diego
Email: dtg@ucsd.edu
Graduation Year: 2008
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Joshua Troncoso
Assistant Professor
Ethnic Studies Department at CSU San Jose
Email: joshua.troncoso@sjsu.edu
Graduation Year: 2012
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Wesley Ueunten
Associate Professor
Ethnic Studies/Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University
Email: wesueu@sfsu.edu
Graduation Year: 2007
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Caroline Valverde
Faculty
Asian American Studies Department at UC Davis
Email: cvalverde@ucdavis.edu
Graduation Year: 2002
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Yolanda Venegas
Lecturer
Writing Program Department at UC Santa Cruz
Email: yvenegas@ucsc.edu
Graduation Year: 2004
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Jennifer Vest
Lecturer and Performing Artist
Department
Email: drvest@earthlink.net
Graduation Year: 2000
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María Villaseñor
Associate Professor
Division of Humanities & Communication Department at CSU Monterey Bay
Email: mvillasenor@csumb.edu
Graduation Year: 2006
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Frederick "Rickey" Vincent
Lecturer
African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley
Graduation Year: 2008
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Oliver Wang
Associate Professor
Sociology Department Department at CSU Long Beach
Email: oliver.wang@csulb.edu
Graduation Year: 2004
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Sarah Whitt
Email: sarahwhitt1@berkeley.edu
Advisor: , Shari Huhndorf
Bio & Research Interests
My dissertation “False Promises: Race, Power, and the Chimera of Indian Assimilation, 1879-1934,” centers on the institutionalization and punishment of American Indian women and men at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) in Carlisle, PA and the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (1902-1934) in Canton, SD, the first institutions of their kind designed solely for Indian people. Specifically, I analyze how white American officials at Carlisle and Canton devised new disciplinary techniques to control, manage, and immobilize adult Indian people, and how officials at both sites enacted punitive policies articulated as uplifting. In examining the entwined objectives of Carlisle and Canton, I reveal how two separate institutions furthered settler-colonial processes of Indigenous elimination and proletarianization through overlapping punitive policies and practices. I am concerned with the relationship between Carlisle and Canton, how Indian women and men navigated disciplinary structures that seized upon their bodies and minds as pathological, deviant, and infantile, and how white Americans wielded punishment as a form of white racial power held in common over Indian people under their jurisdiction. These phenomena expose how Carlisle and Canton segregated, racialized, and criminalized Indian women and men at least as much as they claimed to educate, train, care for, or “cure” them.
Sarah Whitt (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She received her MA from UC Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies, and holds a BA in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research is supported by the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender, the Cobell Scholarship, and UC Berkeley’s Mentored Research Award.
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Shelly Sunn Wong
Associate Professor
English Department at Cornell Univeristy
Email: ssw6@cornell.edu
Graduation Year: 1994
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Matthew Wray
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Liberal Arts Department at Temple University
Email: mwray@temple.edu
Graduation Year: 2000
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Kathleen Yep
Professor
Asian American Studies Department
Email: kathleen_yep@pitzer.edu
Graduation Year: 2002
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