Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity announces 2006-07 fellows
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) has selected its class of 2006-07 fellows, who include visiting scholars and Stanford graduate students. Fellows will join more than 100 faculty affiliated with the center in monthly research network meetings, a faculty seminar series and campus conferences and events.
The visiting fellows and their research projects are:
Ange-Marie Hancock, political science and African American studies, Yale University, "Intersectionality and the Search for Justice in College Admissions."
Alison Isenberg, history, Rutgers University, "Second-Hand Cities: Dynamic Renewal at the Margins of the Modern Metropolis."
Moon-Kie Jung, sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "Outline of a Theory of Race."
Michael Omi, ethnic studies, University of California, Berkeley, "Dilemmas of Racial Formation in the 21st Century."
Daria Roithmayr, law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, "Locked in Inequality: A Persistent Monopoly Model of Racial Discrimination."
Mina Yoo, management and organization, University of Washington Business School, "Economic Behaviors of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States."
The CCSRE Research Institute also supports a group of graduate dissertation fellows who join the visiting fellows in regular discussions of their research projects. Graduate fellows are:
Lalaie Ameeriar, cultural and social anthropology, "Making Globalization Work: Pakistani Women in Canada."
Mary C. Murphy, social psychology, "The Importance of Context: Conceptualizing a Theory of Social Identity Threat in the Classroom."
Flavio Paniagua, modern thought and literature, "Mojados Malcriados: Unsettling Vernacular Representations and Migrant Routes."
Justine Tinkler, sociology, "A Social Psychological Analysis of Resistance to Equal Opportunity Law: The Case of Sexual Harassment Policy and Affirmative Action."
The CCSRE undergraduate program provides teaching fellowships to graduate students whose work addresses issues of race and ethnicity. Teaching fellows are Sapna Cheryan, psychology; Teresa Pellinen-Chávez, modern thought and literature; and Victor Thompson, sociology. The fellows will gain practical experience in the classroom as teaching assistants and teachers of small group courses in the undergraduate program.