The Truly Diverse Faculty, New Dialogues in American Higher Education
Department: African American Studies
Date and Time: February 12, 2015 | 3:00 PM-5:00 PMEvent Location: Humanities Gateway, 1030
Event Details
The Program in African American Studies invites you to join us:
A Book Reading of -
The Truly Diverse Faculty:
New Dialogues in American Higher Education
With editors Stephanie A. Fryberg and Ernesto Javier Martinez
And Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Location: Humanities Gateway 1030
Date: February 12, 2015
Time: 3:00 ~ 5:00 pm
Panel Bios:
DR. STEPHANIE A. FRYBERG is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Her publications include: "Cultural models of education and academic performance for Native American and European American students"(with R. Covarrubias & J. Burack); "Unseen disadvantage: How American Universities' focus on independence undermines the academic performance of first-generation college students"(with N. M. Stephens, H.R. Markus, C. Johnson, & R. Covarrubias), "When the world is colorblind, American Indians are invisible: A diversity science approach"(with N. M. Stephens); "Of warrior chiefs and Indian princesses: The psychological consequences of American Indian mascots on American Indians"(with H.R. Markus, D. Oyserman, & J. M. Stone). Dr. Fryberg received the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Louise Kidder Early Career Award, the University of Arizona Five Star Faculty Award, and in 2011 was inducted into the Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame at Stanford University.
DR. ERNESTO JAVIER MARTÍNEZ is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. He is the author of On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility (Stanford, 2012)and the co-editor (with Michael Hames-García) of Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke, 2011) winner of the Lambda Literary Award. His works have appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies; International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations; Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; and PMLA.
DR. TIFFANY WILLOUGHBY HERARD is Assistant Professor African American Studies, a faculty affiliate in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and on the faculty for the Queer Studies Minor and the Graduate Program in Culture and Theory. She is the author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability (University of California Press, 2015), the co-editor (with H.L.T. Quan) of African Identities 11(2), the Special Issue on Cedric J. Robinson: Radical Historiography, Black Ontology, and Freedom (Taylor and Frances, 2013), and the editor of Theories of Blackness: On Life and Death (Cognella, 2011).
Links:
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http://www.amazon.com/Ernesto-Javier-Martinez/e/B0052YOR3A
SPONSORED BY:
ADVANCE, African American Studies Program, American Indian Resource Program, Asian American Studies Department, Associated Doctoral Students in Education, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Black Law Student Association, Career Center, Center for Educational Partnerships, Critical Consciousness Speaker Series at the UCI Cross-Cultural Center, DECADE, English Department, Film and Media Studies Department, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department, Graduate Division, Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, Psychology and Social Behavior, Dean Frances Leslie, Vice Provost Doug Haynes, Hannah Jones, and many other heroes who hold up the sky on our campus and in this community.