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American Studies Conference 2008
Courses in American Studies
Honors Projects
Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Crosslisting Courses
Urban Faculty Coloquium
August 4-7, & 11, 2008
Department Conception (5/7/2003)
Department of Multicultural Life
Student Organizations
Fall 2007
American Studies Open House Photos
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
Politics of Difference: U.S./Mexican Border-Class Project
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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 came to Macalester from the University of California,
San Diego, where she was a professor in the Department of Ethnic
Studies and an affiliated faculty in the Department of Communication.
Dr. Rhodes received her Ph.D. in mass communication research from
the University of North Carolina in 1992.Her research interests
include race, gender and mass media, transnational social movements,
and African American history and culture. Dr. Rhodes is the author
of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth
Century (Indiana University Press, 1998). It was the winner
of the Outstanding Book Award, History Division of 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) will be published in 2007. She has
held the U.C. San Diego Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship,
a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and a fellowship in U.S.
Studies at the University of London.
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.
Jason Ruiz, CFD Fellow, American
Studies
Ruiz is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of
Minnesota and is a CFD (Consortium for Faculty Diversity)
fellow at Macalester College. Previously he was a Latino
Studies Predoctoral Fellow in residence at the national Museum of
Amerian History in Washington D.C. His research and teaching interests
include History of U.S.-Mexican Cultural Relations in the Twentieth
Century, Critical Race Theory, History of Mexicans in the United
States, Gender and Sexualities Studies, U.S. Cultural Imperialism,
Border Studies, Ethnic Studies.
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.
Scott
Morgensen, Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender,
and Sexuality
Studies, teaches and does research on the politics of race and
nationality in movements for sexual justice. He received his Ph.D.
in
anthropology and women's studies at the University of California,
Santa
Cruz (2001) where he also taught courses in American studies. His
book
manuscript critically examines how U.S. sexual minority movements
appropriate indigenous cultures as their own roots, with contrast
to the
anti-colonial politics of Native lesbian, gay, and two-spirit
organizers. His ongoing research examines the global dimensions
of
sexual stigma faced by sexual minorities and people living with
HIV/AIDS, who are forming new transnational movements that theorize
links among sexuality, colonialism, and globalization today.
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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