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American Studies Conference 2010
Honors Projects
Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Urban Faculty Colloquium
August 4-7, & 11, 2008
Department Conception (5/7/2003)
Department of Multicultural Life
Student Organizations
Guidelines for First-Year Students
Consortium
for Faculty Diversity at Liberal Arts Colleges
Digital Commons at Macalester
Mahmoud El-Kati Distinguished Lectureship in American Studies
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About the Faculty
Core Faculty
Jane Rhodes, Dean for the
Study of Race and Ethnicity, Professor, and Department Chair
Dr. Rhodes is Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College. She earned B.S. and M.A. degrees from Syracuse University, and a Ph. D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Rhodes specializes in the study of race, gender and mass media; the black press; and media and social movements. Prior to joining the Macalester faculty, Rhodes taught in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, San Diego. She has also been on the faculties of Indiana University and S.U.N.Y. Cortland. Rhodes’ first book Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century (Indiana University Press, 1998), was named the best book in mass communication history by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Her new book, Framing the Black Panthers: The Spectacular Rise of a Black Power Icon (The New Press) was published in Fall 2007. Rhodes was featured in the award-winning documentary The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (California Newsreel), and has been the recipient of a President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of California, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a research fellowship from the University of London. Her writing has been published in numerous book and journals including The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Feminist Media Studies, The Canadian Review of American Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Media History.
 Duchess Harris, Associate Professor and Chair,
2003-05
Harris is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in American Studies.
Her general area of interest is Twentieth Century African American
political history. She received her B.A. in American History and
Afro-American Studies with an English minor from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1991 and her Ph.D. in American Studies with a
minor at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies from the University
of Minnesota in 1997. She has conducted research for the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights and was a Constituent Advocate for the late U.S.
Senator Paul Wellstone. Harris was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson
Career Enhancement Fellowship during the 2001-02 academic year.
She joined the faculty in 1998.
 Karin
Aguilar-San Juan, Associate Professor
Aguilar-San Juan is an urban sociologist who
also teaches and publishes in Asian American Studies. She is the
editor of The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance
in the 1990s (South End Press, 1994). Her article, “Staying
Vietnamese: Place and Community in Orange County and Boston”
appeared in the March 2005 issue of City and Community.
Her book manuscript of the same name is being prepared for publication.
She had a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship during 2003-4
and is a Next Generation Leadership Fellow (a program sponsored
by New York University, Wagner School of Public Policy). Aguilar-San
Juan received her B.A. in economics from Swarthmore College in 1984,
and her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University in 1995
and 2000. She joined the faculty in 1999.
Affiliated Faculty n
alphabetical order)
Kendrick
Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology, teaches courses
on racial prejudice and stereotyping, multiculturalism, and research
methodology. He is a social psychologist whose research addresses
the mental health consequences of misidentification of ethnicity,
the influence of physical appearance on psychological well-being
for people of color, and skin tone bias experienced by African Americans.
Dr. Brown has a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and
a B.A. from Mount Union College."
Andrea Cremer received her doctorate from the history department at the University of Minnesota in May 2007. Her dissertation “Enemies Incarnate: Religion, Sex, Violence, and Contests for Power in New England, 1636-1638” examined the political function of religious belief and its affect on the construction of race, gender and sexuality in colonial New England. She teaches courses on early American cultural and social history, women’s and gender history, the history of sexuality, Native American history, and the history of the early modern Atlantic world.
Marceline
DuBose, instructor, teaches Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
in Education; Experiences in Education; and Education, Family and
Community. Her research interest and professional experience have
focused on desegregation history, policy and practices. She has
additional interest in multi-cultural education and economics education
at the secondary level.
Daylanne
English, Associate Professor of English, received her
M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, and her B.A. from
Oberlin College (Major: English; Minor: Women's Studies). She has
held visiting appointments in African American Literature at Brown
University and in Caribbean Literature at Brandeis University. Most
recently, she was an Assistant Professor of African American Literature
at Bowie State University, a campus in the University System of
Maryland and one of the oldest historically black colleges in the
nation (founded 1865). Prior to entering graduate school in English
at the University of Virginia, she worked in the public health field.
Galo
F. González , Professor and Chair of Hispanic
and Latin American Studies, teaches and researches primarily twentieth
century Latin American literatures and cultures. His research and
teaching interests include the literature of social protest movements
in Latin America. He is also interested in race relations and Mestizo
cultures through the study of Latin American narrative fiction,
the literature of subversion in the Andean Region as well as the
literature of subaltern cultures, which is an approach to the study
of Latino literature in the U.S.
Lynn
Hudson, Associate Professor of History, joined the
faculty in Fall 2005 and teaches courses on slavery and abolition
in the U.S., western history, social movements, and the history
of gender and sexuality. She is a specialist in African American
history and has been active in women's studies and ethnic studies
programs. Her publications examine the lives of free black men and
women during the age of slavery, and the possibilities for freedom
in the U.S. West. Her recent research investigates the legal, cultural,
and social manifestations of Jim Crow discrimination in California
in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Leola
Johnson, Associate Professor of Humanities, Media,
and Cultural Studies has a Ph.D. in mass communication and teaches
about race, television, the press, and other mass media as social
and cultural institutions.She is completing a book about Iceberg
Slim, the pimp writer whose 1968 autobiography is being produced
as a Hollywood film. She also is a regular commentator on the PBS
show, Mental Engineering.
Teresa Mesa Adamuz, Visiting Instructor of Hispanic and Latin American studies. She has been a graduate student instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Peter
Rachleff, Professor of History, is a labor historian
with expertise in race, immigration, and ethnicity in the composition
and recomposition of the U.S. working class. He offers classes in
African American History, Immigration and Ethnicity in U.S. History,
and Racial Formations in U.S. History and Culture as well as theme-focused
courses between the Civil War and World War II. Professor Rachleff
conducts research in U.S. labor, immigration and African American
history. He is a frequent sponsor of internships and student research
projects.
Harry
Waters, Jr. , Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance,
has been an accomplished actor for over 25 years. He has appeared
in numerous theater productions, including the world premiere before
Broadway of Angels in America . In film, he appeared as Marvin Berry
in Back to the Future , where he received a Gold Record singing "Earth Angel". Professor Waters has appeared on numerous television
programs, including creating Tweedle Dee in Adventures in Wonderland
for the Disney Channel. In the Twin Cities, he assisted Tim Bond
on Directing Crowns for the Guthrie Theater; he acted with the Ten
Thousand Things Theater Co. in The Good Person of Szechuan ; he
acted in the Mixed Blood Theater's Bill of Wrights .
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