Susan Ivey, Berkeley/UCSF Joint Medical Program
Julian Chow, Social Welfare
It is a well documented fact that racial minorities in the United States have been historically underrepresented with regard to access to employment opportunities, educational outcomes, and many other social aspirations.Professor Linda Haverty Rugg, Scandinavian
Professor Linda Williams, Film Studies
A theatrical film release arguably succeeds only so far as its characters resonate with the viewing public. A successful film can reach an audience numbering in the tens of millions. As such, films represent important cultural markers that can provide insight into not only the values and beliefs of individual writers and directors, but into the collective, cultural-consciousness of segments of, and society as a whole.Petra Raquel Rivera, African Diaspora Studies
Ariane Cruz, African Diaspora Studies
The Fall 2008 forum series concluded with graduate student presentations by Ariane Cruz and Petra Raquel Rivera, doctoral candidates in African Diaspora Studies.Professor Harvey Weinstein, Public Health and The Human Rights Center
Professor Katharya Um, Ethnic Studies
Thirty years ago, the brief, but brutal regime of the Khmer Rouge ended. Between 1975-1979, upwards of two million Cambodians would lose their lives as a direct result of the regime’s violent and radical program of social upheaval.
The Pacific Islands Studies Research Working Group aims to promote greater awareness and understanding of the Pacific Islands Regions and Pacific Islands communities in the U.S. diaspora. This research group is a response to the invisibility of discourse on Pacific Islands communities on this campus, and works in collaboration with other social movements on campus and around the U.S.Molly Babel, Linguistics
Trevor Gardner, Sociology
Why do people who interact with one another end up sounding similar to each other as well? For scholars of linguistics, such a deceptively simple observation unfolds into a theoretically rich examination of cognitive, physiological, and psycho-social mechanisms that may illuminate the very basis of human thought and behavior.Professor Daniel Perlstein, Education
Professor Na’ilah Suad Nasir, African American Studies / Education
The Brooklyn, New York based civil rights activist Sonny Carson once noted that the schoolhouses he attended were like prisons, and that the prisons themselves were posing as schoolhouses—metal bars ran down the windows of both. Various authors such as playwright George Bernard Shaw, sociologist Michel Foucault, and even the band Pink Floyd have drawn similar comparisons between institutions of learning and institutions of incarceration.Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Near Eastern Studies
Eva Holt-Rusmore, ISF
On March 19th, 2009, the Center For Race & Gender was pleased to honor and recognize the scholarly contributions of Jaimee Comstock-Skipp and Eva Holt-Rusmore, both recipients of CRG undergraduate grant rewards.
In 1901, three years after the U.S. defeated the Spanish in the Philippines, the first wave of a new breed of American soldiers arrived on the newly annexed lands aboard the ship the U.S.A.T. Thomas.
Karl Britto is a joint appointed professor in the French and Comparative Literature departments, and is an affiliated faculty member of the CRG.
