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Michael Hames-García, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies and English

B.A., 1993, Willamette; Ph.D., 1998, Cornell.

Research areas: Chicana/o & U.S. Latina/o literatures and cultures; Gay & Lesbian Studies; Critical Prison Studies; Theories of Identity and the Self.

Publications: Publications include: Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice (U of Minnesota Press, 2004); Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (U of California Press, 2000); Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave, 2006); and "Which America Is Ours? Martí's ‘Truth’ and the Foundations of ‘American Literature’," Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 2003).

mhamesg@uoregon.edu

Associate Program Director

Jiannbin Shiao, Associate Professor, Sociology

B.A., 1991, Brown University; Ph.D., 1998, University of California, Berkeley.

Research areas: Philanthropic diversity policy; racial/ethnic identity of transracial adoptees; social segregation and interracial intimacy; race/ethnicity and genetics.

Publications: Publications include: (with Mia Tuan), A Sociological Approach to Race, Identity, and Asian Adoption. Pp. 151-166 in Kathleen Bergquist, Betsy Vonk, and Dong Soo Kim, eds. International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press; Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

jshiao@uoregon.edu

Faculty

Daniel HoSang, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies and Political Science

BA 1993, Wesleyan University; Ph.D. 2007, University of Southern California.

Research areas: racial and ethnic politics, history and theory, with a focus on the post-World War II United States

Publications: "From White Rights to Colorblind Conservatism: The Transformation of U.S. Racial Politics since the 1960s" in J. Lowndes, J Novokov, and D Warren edited Race and American Political Development, (Routledge, 2008).
“Family and Community as the Cornerstone of Civic Engagement: Immigrant and Youth Organizing in the Southwest.” National Civic Review, 2007, 95(4).
"Beyond Policy: Race, Ideology and the Re-imagining of Youth.” In S Ginwright, P Noguera and J Cammarota edited Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth. (Routledge, 2006).

Works in progress: His current book manuscript examines racialized California ballot initiatives between 1946 and 2003, tracing the development of the current "colorblind consensus" on race and will be published by the University of California Press
in 2009-10. He is also currently working on an evaluation project for the Portland-based Western States Center, examining new strategies used by social justice groups and community organizations to engage voters.

dhosang@uoregon.edu

Brian Klopotek, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology

BA 1994, Yale University, Ph.D. 2004, University of Minnesota.

Research areas: Native Americans of the Southeastern US; ethnohistory; federal recognition of Indian tribes; Indian educational history; American Indians and the cinema; Native Americans and gender.

Publications: ''I guess your warrior look doesn't work every time': Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema," in Matt Basso, et al, eds.; Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the US West, New York: Routledge, 2001.

Works in progress: "Trickster at Play: Federal Recognition and Louisiana Indians"; articles on the Tunica Treasure and Indian education in the segregated South.

klopotek@uoregon.edu

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Claudia *(We-la-la) Long (*Nez Perce family name), Visiting Professor

BS 1979, Portland State University, MSW 1982, PSU; Ph.D. 1997, PSU

Research areas: Pacific NW Indians; Race and identity formation; Culturally competent assessment and measurement with Native Americans; Qualitative research methods; Native women and aging.

Publications: Assessing cultural life skills: A case study with American Indian youth (Child and Youth Care Forum 34(1) 2006); "Racism policy statement" (NASW, 2005); Multicultural assessment of parent-child interaction: The SESS collaboration(Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 26, 2005); Honoring Diversity: Measuring cultural resiliency in Native American families (JBSE 91, 1999); Living in two worlds: Native American women and prenatal health care (Health Care for Women International 19, 1998).

Works in progress: "Honoring our Native Mothers and Grandmothers" and an article on "Aging: An International Approach".

long@uoregon.edu

 

Dr. Irmary Reyes-Santos, Visiting Assistant Professor (incoming Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Romance Languages)

BA, 2001, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez; Ph.D., 2007, University of California, San Diego

Research areas: transnational Caribbean ethnic studies, cultural studies, globalization, African Diaspora Studies, migration, gender & sexuality.

Publications: Forthcoming publications include “Capital neoliberal, raza, migración: relaciones domínico-haitianas y domínico-puertorriqueñas” (“Neoliberal Capital, Race, Migration: Haitian-Dominican Relations and Dominican-Puerto Rican Relations”), Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, (2008).

Works in progess: A book manuscript titled "Global Geographies: Narratives of Nationalism and Regionalism in the Americas." This book seeks to complicate celebratory responses to globalization in the Americas by analyzing cultural representations of Caribbean nationalisms and regionalisms. Dr. Reyes-Santos also co-coordinates (with Dr. Ernesto Martinez) the CSWS Research Interest Group "The Projects of Queer Studies: Race, Pedagogy, and Social Theory."

irmary@uoregon.edu

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