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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
 Faculty and students in the Ethnic Studies Department examine race and ethnicity in the United States with a primary focus on people of African, Asian, Latina/o, and Native American descent. The first Committee on Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon was formed in 1969 and completed a proposal for an Ethnic Studies Program in 1972. This resulted in the creation of the Program in Folklore and Ethnic Studies. Ethnic Studies and Folklore separated in 1994, and, in 1997, a major in Ethnic Studies was added to the minor that was already offered. Ethnic Studies gained full departmental status in 2008.
In addition to the six faculty positions appointed or jointly appointed in the Department, Ethnic Studies also has at any one time between three and five outside faculty members with “core” appointments who dedicate a portion of their university service to departmental governance. We also have a faculty Advisory Board and around 30 affiliated faculty members from across the University, including the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, and the School of Law. Our junior faculty include three recipients of outstanding teaching awards and two recipients of the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize for best doctoral dissertation from the American Studies Association. We are currently seeking to fill an open position for an Assistant or Associate Professor (tenured or tenure-related) in African American, Comparative African-American, or Black Studies.
The Department and its related Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Studies (CRESS) serve as focal points for a sizable and congenial community of scholars interested in race, gender, and sexuality across the university. We also have close relationships to other research centers on campus, including the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies (CLLAS), and the Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC).
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Students may earn a major or minor in ethnic studies. A secondary goal of the department is to
encourage students to become more aware of the ethnic and culture-based dimensions and
applications of other major fields. Students of literature, social sciences, education, urban planning,
art history, humanities, and international studies—to name only a few—find that related ethnic studies
courses can enrich their academic programs.
See Group Requirements and Multicultural Requirement in the Registration and Academic Policies
section of the University of Oregon Catalog for ethnic studies courses that satisfy University general-
education requirements.
On April 17 and 18, Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and
Michael Omi (UC Berkeley) will headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and practices of racial formation. The program includes a plenary session featuring Omi and Winant, keynote addresses by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke) and Devon Carbado (UCLA), and four other sessions which bring together 15 leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines—Sociology, History, Anthropology, Political Science, Ethnic Studies, Law, and Geography—to discuss the past, present and future of racial formation.
The symposium is organized in anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the first publication of Omi and Winant’s landmark book, Racial Formation in the United States. The symposium is being co-organzied by
ES Assistant Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang, and is co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department.
Click here for more information:
http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html
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