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Ethnic Communities
Karin Aguilar-San Juan
Asian Americans
Comparative North American Studies Program
Aguilar-San Juan is the editor of the acclaimed anthology, The State of Asian America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s, which contributed to the national Asian American Studies examination in 1995. She has studied Vietnamese communities in Orange County, Calif., Boston and around the country. She teaches courses on community and identity in Asian America as well as race, racial inequality, race-based social movements and racial justice. In addition, she was recently selected by the Rockefeller Foundation to serve as a fellow for its national Next Generation Leadership program.
Kendrick Brown
Prejudice/Skin-Tone Bias
Psychology Department
Brown's research focuses on skin-tone bias and issues of racial prejudice in the U.S. and Western Europe. He teaches courses related to the expressions and experiences of racial prejudice, the influence of skin tone bias on African Americans and intergroup contact as a means of producing positive racial attitudes. His publications include "Mental Health: The Importance of Race, Ethnicity and Culture" and "Skin Tone and Racial Identity Among African Americans."
Allan Callahan
African American Biblical Intrepretation/
Slavery and Christianity/Biblical Studies
Callahan specializes in the problem of slavery and freedom in the New Testament and its meaning for contemporary Christians. He has researched the history of the enslavement of Africans in the U.S. and Brazil. He is publishing a forthcoming study on the Bible in African-American life. Callahan is a well known expert on Biblical studies, the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. He is also the author of Embassy of Onesimus: Paul's Letter to Philemon and has written commentary on the Johannine epistles as well as an opinion piece for the Boston Globe.
Janet Carlson
Asian Americans
Comparative North American Studies Program/
Chemistry Deparment
Carlson directs Macalester's Comparative North American Studies Program. She teaches a course on the Asian American experience. She is currently studying the World War II experiences of Japanese American communities in Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado.
Humphrey Doermann
Historically Black Colleges
Economics Department
Doermann has researched historically black colleges in the U.S. and has written a book on the subject, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Doermann is the former head of the Bush Foundation.
Mahmoud El-Kati
African Americans/Race Issues
History Deparment
El-Kati teaches courses on African American history since World War II, as well as sports and the African American community. He has written numerous articles and has been interviewed about issues such as gang activity, crime, Ebonics and the "myth of race."
Diane Glancy
Native American Literature
English Department
Glancy is an award-winning poet, playwright and fiction writer who often writes about the Native American experience. She is co-editor of a new Native American Narrative Series at the University of Nebraska Press. Her newest novel is Designs of the Night Sky. Her novel, Flutie, is being adapted into a screenplay. Her other book, Pushing the Bear, about the Cherokee Nation's 1838 Trail of Tears was published by Harcourt Brace. Glancy's other books include Monkey Secret, a collection of short fiction,The Voice That Was In Travel, War Cries, a collection of short plays, The West Pole, a collection of essays, and Trigger Dance. Glancy teaches Native American literature, creative writing and a new course on environmental writing.
Duchess Harris
African American Political Movements/
Black Public Intellectuals
Political Science Deparment
Harris' research interests include U.S. politics, particularly African American political movements. For example, she has been interviewed about the role of African Americans in the 2000 elections. She teaches courses on race, ethnicity and politics, African American political thought and black public intellectuals. Harris also can discuss race and gender issues as well as class issues within the African American community.
Leola Johnson
African Americans and the Media/Hip Hop Culture
Communication and Media Studies Department
Johnson's research focuses on media representations of African Americans in news and entertainment, particularly in sports and music. She also specializes in hip-hop culture and rap music. She is completing a book on Iceberg Slim, the pimp writer whose 1968 autobiography is being produced as a Hollywood film. She teaches courses on television, the press and other mass media as social and cultural institutions. She is a regular guest on the PBS program "Mental Engineering."
Robert Morris
African American Music/Choral
Music Department
Morris is an authority on the music of African Americans, especially choral and religious music. Based on his previous experience as a choral arranger for the late "Duke" Ellington, Morris participated in an institute on "Jazz: The Rediscovery of African American Authenticity." He recently co-directed a national Ellington celebration in Chicago. Morris is the conductor of choral activities at the college, including the Macalester Concert Choir and the Festival Chorale. He also is the founder and conductor of the Leigh Morris Chorale.
Anthony Pinn
African American Religion/Rap Music
Religious Studies Department/African American
Studies Program
Pinn specializes in the history of black religious thought and theology, and African American religion. He co-wrote the new book, Fortress Introduction to Black Church History, which explores the shape and history of the Methodist, Baptist and Pentecostal religions from the 18th century to the end of the Civil Rights movement. He is also the author of Varieties of African American Religious Experience, which covers the diversity of religious practices within the African American community including Voodoo, Santer¡a, the Nation of Islam and the emergence of black humanism as well as Why Lord? Suffering and Evil in Black Theology. In addition, Pinn has researched religious themes in rap music. He is coordinator of the college's African American Studies Program and serves as executive director of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.
Jack Weatherford
Native Americans/Indigenous Peoples
Anthropology Department
Weatherford is an expert on the cultures and issues of indigenous peoples around the globe, including Native Americans. He has been a frequent guest on national and local radio and television programs. For example, he appeared on the CBS Television Network documentary "500 Nations." He has published seven books, including Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, which explores the relationship between modern culture and tribal people. Other books include Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World andThe History of Money. He is currently conducting research on Mongolia and Genghis Khan.
Michelle Wright
African Diaspora Literature /Race and Technology English Department
Wright's research focuses on black Atlantic literature and postcolonial theory. She is currently working on a book on comparative black theories of subjectivity in the literature of African American, black British, Afro-German and black French literature and non-fiction. Wright is also a resource on race and technology issues as well as queer and black feminist issues in African diaspora literature.