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Affiliated Faculty
WISER faculty come from a range of disciplines and
research interests. They provide valuable contributions in the study of
race, ethnicity, and sexuality, as well as mentorship of future
scholars in various fields.
Manish Chalana
Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning
Research Interests: Urban Gentrification, Multicultural Planning and
Preservation, Equitable Developments, South-Asian Immigration in North
American, and Right to Public Parks.
Office: Gould Hall, Room 410
Dr. Manish Chalana holds a doctorate in Design and
Planning from the University of Colorado. He also holds a masters in
Landscape Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University and
masters in Architecture from the School of Planning and Architecture,
New Delhi, India. Dr. Chalana's research focuses on international and
multicultural preservation and planning. He is also interested in
immigration of South Asians to North America, and their settlement and
network patterns. Additional interests include the use of urban open
spaces by marginalized communities and the displacement of
disadvantaged communities as a result of gentrification in urban areas.
Frances Contreras
Assistant Professor, College of Education
Research interests: affirmative action in higher education, Latinas/os
in Ph.D. programs
Office Location: M204 Miller
eMail: frances@u.washington.edu
Dr. Contreras presently researches issues of equity and
access for underrepresented student in the education pipeline. She
recieved her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1994,
her M.Ed. at Harvard University in 1995, and her Ph.D. from Stanford
University in 2003. She addresses transition between K-12 and higher
education, community college transfer, faculty diversity, affirmative
action in higher education, and the role of the public policy arena in
higher education access for underserved students of color. In addition
to her research and teaching Dr. Contreras serves on the Boards of the
Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, LEAP, California Tomorrow, and the
Chicana/Latino Foundation.
Gloria Coronado, PhD
Dr. Coronado is a Hispanic epidemiologist who received
her undergraduate training at Stanford University. She works as an
Assistant Member for the Cancer Prevention Program at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Dr. Coronad is a Co-investigator for
several community-based intervention studies taking place in Eastern
Washington and New Mexico. She serves as the Principal Investigator on
two National Cancer Institute-funded investigations; Increasing
Colorectal Screening in Minorities and ESL Curriculum for HBV Testing
in Chinese Americans. She has co-authored several publications from
qualitative research conducted in Hispanic communities and has long
history of mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. She was
recognized as a Young Hispanic Leader by the Embassy of Spain. She
serves as a board member on two local organizations: CASA Latina and
Planned Parenthood of Western Washington.
Laura E. Evans
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Research interests: Political Institutions, Urban and Regional Affairs,
Race and Ethnicity
Office Location: Parrington 207B
Office Phone: 206.543.8343
Professor Evans's research explores local politics and
intergovernmental relations in the United States. She examines the
forces shaping regional policy coordination, with particular attention
to the effects of racial and economic divisions on interaction between
governments.
Her current project examines Native American tribal
governments' efforts to build political capacity and to manage
relations with other governments--the Feds, states, and localities. She
finds that some tribes have developed effective strategies for building
capacities and winning successes in regional politics, although racial
context strongly conditions results. Ultimately, this study addresses
how information and organizational learning matter in politics, and how
politically marginalized groups can challenge the obstacles facing them.
María Elena García
Associate Professor, Comparative History of Ideas
Latin American, Indigeneity, Multicultural Politics, Development in
Andean region
Office Location: Padelford B103
eMail: meg71@u.washington.edu
website: http://depts.washington.edu/chid/meg/MEG.htm
Maria Elena Garcia (B.A. with Honors in Anthropology,
College of William and Mary 1993, M.A. 1996 and Ph.D. 2001 in
Anthropology, Brown University) is an associate professor in the
Comparative History of Ideas Program. Her work on indigeneity,
multicultural politics, and development in the Andes has appeared in
multiple edited volumes and journals such as Latin American
Perspectives, Anthropological Quarterly, and The International Journal
of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Her book, Making Indigenous
Citizens: Identities, Development, and Multicultural Activism in Peru,
was published by Stanford University Press in 2005. Her most recent
work focuses on indigenous intellectual production and on human-animal
articulations.
Michelle Habell-Pallan
Associate Professor of Women Studies, 2007-present
Associate Professor of American Ethnic Studies, 1999-2007
Adjunct Professor of Music
Michelle Habell-Pallan received her Ph.D. from the
University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Loca Motion: The
Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2005) and
co-editor of Latina/o Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2002). In support of
her innovative research and writing on the politics of representation
and cultural politics of "independent" popular culture, performance
art, spoken word, and music, she received a Rockefeller Foundation
Humanities Research Award, as well as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Research Award. Her in-progress manuscript, Beat Migration: Chicano/a
Roots/Routes of American Pop Music was recently granted an Associate
Professor Research Institute Award by the UW Simpson Center for the
Humanities. In addition, she serves on the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Latina Studies.
Habell-Pallan's large scale public humanities projects
include American Sabor: U.S. Latinos Shaping Popular Music, a
collaboration of the UW School of Music, UW Department of Women
Studies, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Experience Music
Project. She serves as Guest Co-Curator of the exhibit, which opens in
Fall 2007 at the Experience Music Project in Seattle.
Habell-Pallan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
in women of color feminist theory and methodology, cultural studies and
feminism in the Americas, "racialization, gender, and sexuality" in
rock criticism, Chicano/a Theater, social movements and popular
culture, the politics of pop music.
Habell-Pallan also works with "Why Punish the Children?"
a newly formed collective seeking to spread awareness about the
traumatic effects of current immigration policy on children of
undocumented mothers who are detained or deported.
Alexes Harris
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Race and ethnicity, juvenile justice system
Office Location: Savery 206S
Office Hours: Wed & Thurs 2:30 - 3:30
eMail: yharris@u.washington.edu
Alexes Harris is currently an Assistant Professor at the
Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. Her degrees in
the field of Sociology are from the University of Washington (B.A.,
1997) and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A., 1999; Ph.D.,
2002). Her research and teaching areas include the juvenile justice
system, race and ethnic theory, qualitative research methods, and
social stratification and inequality.
Dr. Harris' dissertation employed both qualitative and
statistical methodologies to examine the juvenile court institution and
the process of transferring minors to the adult criminal justice system
in California. A current project she is working on extends findings
from her dissertation to investigate the decision-making of probation
officers involved with waiver-eligible cases in juvenile courts. She is
particularly interested in exploring any similarities and differences
in probation officers' characterization of youth from differing racial
and ethnic backgrounds. Another project investigates the association of
race/ethnicity, nativity, and gender with use of payday loans, and the
impact of payday lending on economic inequality between the middle
class, native-born white majority, and minorities and immigrants.
Ralina Joseph
Assistant Professor of Communications
Research interests: race, gender, sexuality, representation
Office Location: Communications 339
Office Hours: Wed 12:30 - 2:30, or by appointment
eMail: rljoseph@u.washington.edu
Dr. Joseph completed an undergraduate degree at Brown
University, majoring in American Civilization. She received an M.A. and
Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego.
Her dissertation, "New Millennium 'Mulattas': Post-Ethnicity,
Post-Feminism, and the Mixed-Race Excuse," investigates how
contemporary representations of multiracial African American women are
used for neo-conservative political agendas.
She is broadly interested in contemporary representation
of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Her current
research includes an analysis of California's failed "Racial Privacy
Initiative" (Proposition 54) alongside "post-identity" performances in
Tyra Banks's popular reality show, America's Next Top Model.
Moon-Ho Jung
Assistant Professor of History
Research Interests: Asian American History
Office Location:
Office Hours
eMail: mhjung@u.washington.edu
website: http://depts.washington.edu/history/faculty/jung.html
Tetsuden Kashima
Professor of American Ethnic Studies
Research Interests: WWII American & Canadian Internment sites,
Asian American Sociology
Office Location: A-519 Padelford
Office Hours:
eMail: kashima@u.washington.edu
website: http://depts.washington.edu/aes/faculty/tkashima.html
Mark C. Long
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Public Economics, Labor Economics, Economics of Education, Race and
Inequality, and Applied Econometrics
Office Location: Parrington Hall 209E
eMail: marklong@u.washington.edu
Mark C. Long joined the Daniel J. Evans School of Public
Affairs in 2004. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University
of Michigan (2002). His research focuses on the effects of affirmative
action (and alternative) college admissions policies on college entry;
the effects of college financial aid on household savings; and his
recent work examines the effect of school and college quality on test
scores, educational attainment, labor market outcomes, family
formation, and other behaviors. He is the winner of The Association for
Public Policy Analysis and Management's 2002 Ph.D. Dissertation Award
for the Best Ph.D. Dissertation in Public Policy and Management. He has
publications in The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of
Public Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, and Public
Administration Review.
Tony Lucero
Associate Professor of International Studies
Latin American Politics, Democratization, Social Movements, Political
Representation, Politics of Race and Ethnicity
Office Location: Thomson Hall 122
eMail: jal26@u.washington.edu
website: http://jsis.washington.edu/jackson/bio/lucero.shtml
José Antonio Lucero (B.A. with Honors in
Political Science 1994, Stanford University, M.A. 1997 and Ph.D. 2002
in Politics, Princeton University) is an associate professor in the
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. His research on
indigenous politics, social movements, and representation in Ecuador,
Bolivia, and Peru has been supported by grants from the National
Science Foundation, the Fulbright Institute of International Education,
the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. His work on social movement theory
and indigenous politics has been published in the Journal of Democracy,
Comparative Politics, Latin American Perspectives, Latin American
Research Review, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and
several edited volumes. Professor Lucero's book on indigenous
movements, Struggles of Voice: The Politics of Indigenous
Representation in the Andes is forthcoming from the University of
Pittsburgh Press.
Christopher Parker
Associate Professor of Political Science
Research Interests: Political Psychology, Political Behavior, Race and
Politics, Survey Research.
eMail: csparker@u.washington.edu
website: http://faculty.washington.edu/csparker/index.htm
Professor Parker's recent research centers upon the
myriad ways in which war and military service affect race relations.
Specifically, he examines whether or not veterans and non-veterans
differ systematically in their socio-political attitudes and behavior.
More broadly, however, Professor Parker's research agenda focuses on
the intersection between race and national identity, and how this
combination affects political attitudes and behavior.
Before joining the faculty at the University of
Washington, Professor Parker was a member of the faculty at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. Parker also spent a year at
Grinnell College where he was a CSMP Fellow. He has published in
International Security, and is currently working on a book manuscript
entitled, "Fighting for Democracy: Race, Military Service, and
Insurgency during Jim Crow." He also is the principal investigator for
the California Patriotism Pilot Study (CPPS, 2002), a survey that
investigates the multi-dimensionality of patriotism. Professor Parker
was a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship, in
residence at the University of California, Berkely/San Francisco in
fall 2007. Currently, Professor Parker teaches a graduate level seminar
in Public Opinion at the University of Washington.
Professor Parker spent a total of ten years in the
United States Navy, after which he attended the University of
California, Los Angeles. Parker received his doctorate at the
University of Chicago.
Jack Turner
Assistant Professor of Political Science
African American political thought, critical race theory, race in
American politics
Office Hours: TBA
Office Location: 131 Gowen
eMail: jturner3@u.washington.edu
Jack Turner is assistant professor of political science
at the University of Washington and a member of the Washington
Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Sexuality (WISER). A
1998 graduate of Amherst College, he received an M.Phil. in political
thought and intellectual history from University of Cambridge in 2001
and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University in 2006. Turner's
research interests include African American political thought, race in
American politics, and critical race theory. His work has appeared or
will soon appear in Political Theory, Raritan, and Polity. He is
working on a book entitled Awakening to Race: American Individualism
and Responsible Citizenship.
Adam Warren
Assistant Professor of History
Latin American History
Office Location:
Office Hours:
eMail: awarren2@u.washington.edu
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