Prof. Michael Honey teaches African American history, labor and ethnic studies, and American history. He has published over two dozen scholarly articles in these fields and speaks frequently at various campuses, communities, and scholarly gatherings, in the U.S. and other parts of the world. His first book, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (Illinois, 1993) won national book awards for race relations, southern and labor history. His recent book is Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle (California, 1999). He has taught at the University of Maryland, Wesleyan, and the University of Puget Sound, and has been a Fellow at Stanford University, the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. He has a Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University (1988), an MA from Howard University (1978), and a BA from Oakland University (1969). Before graduate school he worked as a civil liberties and civil rights organizer in the South for six years, and has had a varied career as a musician, organizer, and educator throughout his academic and non-academic years. In his work at UWT and as a scholar, he places a high value on not only understanding the world, but trying to change it for the better.
mhoney@u.washington.edu

Prof. Divya McMillin teaches international communication, media criticism, and media ethics.  Her research on transnational television networks, production and consumption of televisual texts, and on hierarchies of gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation in the media has resulted in numerous presentations at national and international communication conferences.  McMillin obtained her PhD in international communication and cultural studies from Indiana University (1998), MA in Mass Communication from Pittsburg State University (1994), and undergraduate degrees in Mass Communication (BS, 1993) and Journalism (BA, 1992) from Bangalore University, India.  Her courses such as Media, Culture, and Power; Mass Media as Social Institutions; Race, Gender, and the Media; Global Networks, Local Identities; and Communication and National Development, focus on the power the media have in reconfiguring viewers'daily rituals and patterns of consumption. Publications include a co-authored paper, "International Press Coverage of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit" in the International Communication Bulletin (1995) and a chapter, "Journalists' Best Work" in David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, The American Journalist in the 1990s: U.S. News People at the End of an Era (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1996).  McMillin interned and freelanced for The Times of India in Bangalore, India (1992), and worked as control board operator at KRPS, Public Radio Station in Pittsburg, Kansas (1993-94).

divya@u.washington.edu
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As part of Tacoma's nursing program, Professor Primomo has developed and taught courses in the area of environmental health, community health and policy. Her professional and community activities include serving on boards and advisory committees of such organizations as the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Group Health Cooperative and the editorial advisory board of Public Health Nursing.  Primomo received her master's and doctorate in nursing from the UW Seattle  campus. She earned her B.S. in nursing in 1975 from Russell Sage College in Troy, N.Y.
jprimomo@u.washington.edu

My primary areas of interest include American literature (with an emphasis on African American novelists and playwrights and American women's fiction from the 19th century to the present), Women Studies, and African American studies. I also have a master of arts degree in teaching composition and rhetoric.  I  teach American Literature, African American Literature from Slavery to the Present, 19th Century American Women's Fiction, Cross Cultural Studies in Contemporary Women's Fiction, African American Women's Literature, American Women's Literature from the 19th Century to the Present, Native American Literature, and American Autobiography.
draynor@u.washington.edu

Rachel May teaches Latin American studies and international human rights at UWT. Her research and teaching interests include topics such as: political violence and conflict, human rights, popular movements, and 20th century revolutionary ideology. She is affiliated with the University of Washington's Human Rights Education and Research Network (HRERN).
rmay@u.washington.edu

Michael C. Kalton, Professor and Director, IAS Joint PhD degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Religion, (Harvard, 1977). I'm particularly interested in the implications of world views for ecological concerns, and have researched East Asian traditions in this regard. Also very interested in the environment as an integral element of the community.
mkalton@u.washington.edu

Michael Forman is Assistant Professor of Modern European Thought and Culture. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science, with special fields in political theory, political economy, and comparative politics, from Rutgers University (1995). His teaching and research interests span the areas of social and political theory, critical theory, and labor  studies. His current research focuses on two areas: the sources, content, and aftermath of the European Enlightenment, and the implications of "globalization" for democracy, labor, and human rights. His book, Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (PennState University Press, 1998), received the Michael Harrington Award during the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. He is also author of numerous articles.
forman@u.washington.edu

Steve DeTray received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1995.  Partly due to growing up in East Africa and a life long interest in African political-economic development, he did his dissertation research in Tanzania and Kenya in 1992, focusing on the roles of community organizations in local-level development.  Steve first taught at UWT in spring 1997, and following the theme of his work in Africa, began developing the curriculum in nonprofit studies at UWT later that year.  After seed money was successfully raised from the community to support the curriculum, the first course was taught in spring 1998.  The curriculum provides students the opportunity to obtain a certificate in nonprofit management, based on specialized coursework, participation in the student association, and over 400 hours of supervised service learning internships, among other things.  Steve is the faculty coordinator for the curriculum, and also serves as faculty advisor for the American Humanics Student Association, the largest and most active student group on the UWT campus (the Association recently received national recognition and an award for excellence, after less than two years of operation).  Steve received the first annual award for student association advisor of the year in 1998-99.  He was recently nominated for the University of Washington’s S. Sterling Munro Faculty Service Award, as well as for the City of Destiny Award.

Steve’s research interests include community development, both in the US and in Africa He is president of a nonprofit organization, REACH-Africa, dedicated to promoting development in Africa, as well as cultural and educational exchanges between Africa and the US.  He is currently completing research on student attitudes toward volunteerism and the nonprofit sector, and is also working on a study of human service agencies in the South Puget Sound region.  His faculty web page can be found at  http://faculty.washington.edu/sdetray/. 

Along with his academic pursuits, Steve is also a musician.  He has been active in organizing musical gatherings for the UWT community, and musical benefits to support the Emergency Food Network of Pierce County.  He has a web site for his recently released CD, at  http://www.detray.com/steve/.

sdetray@u.washington.edu

Bronwyn G. Pughe is a poet, a mother, and an educator.  Her university service and community work include: acting as UWT liaison to the Tacoma Art Museum and serving on its exhibitions and branding committees; serving on the UWT Arts and Lectures committee; acting as chair of the Gift of  Service committee, and serving on the advisory board of the Lakewood Family YMCA.  To her work within the Center for the Study of Community and Society, she brings her commitment to the arts as well as her scholarship  in Native American Studies, Canadian Women's Literature, and Prosody.
bronwyn@u.washington.edu

Dr. James' teaching and research focus on adolescent development and drug and violence prevention, intervention, and treatment. His special interest is in biological, psychological, social, and cultural variables and their influence on the development of children and youth. His studies have concentrated on the needs of special populations such as potential high school dropouts, ethnic and racial minority populations, and hard-to-reach youth. He teaches in botht he Department of American Ethnic Studies and the College of Education, and is affiliated with the University's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Dr. James has over 20 juried publications in these areas and co-authored a book with Stephen L. Johnson, Doin' Drugs: Patterns of Addiction in the African American Community (1997).
whjames@u.washington.edu 

Jose M. Rios, Ph.D. is an assistant professor and received a doctorate in science education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Rios received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from Oberlin College and Masters of Science in science education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarly interests include classroom interactions between teachers and students, changes in teachers cognitive structures, curriculum development, and multicultural science education. He is actively involved in community outreach, pre-service and in-service teacher education, and curriculum revitalization.
jrios@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/jrios