AFFILIATED
FACULTY BY DEPARTMENT
On this page you will
find a list, organized by department, of professors affiliated
with the CRG whose research touches on the intersections of race
and gender. Each professor has provided a description of his or
her research. We have provided links to each professor's web site
from this page. Where that has not been possible we have provided
a link to their e-mail address.
African American Studies
Robert
Allen
I study social movements & political economy. I'm currently
researching the life and work of C.L. Dellums, a major California
labor and civil rights activist of national stature who, with
A. Philip Randolph, was an organizer and leader of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters' Union, the largest black labor union
in U.S. history. An Oakland resident, Dellums used
his union base to lead the struggle against employment discrimination
generally, ultimately securing passage of California's historic
Fair Employment Practices law. As director of the West Coast Region
of the NAACP he also played a critical role in the fight against
discrimination in housing.
William
Banks
I am currently researching for an anthology
on black social and political thought; social roles of intellectuals;
black musicians and American Culture.
Vé
Vé Clark
I have a continued interest in Caribbean and African
women’s issues, recently directed towards race, gender and
sports.
Charles
Henry
My current research is on the politics of reparations.
Percy
Hintzen
My research is an interrogation of the relationship
between colonial forms of racial, cultural, ethnic identities
and the social construction of nationalist discourse in efforts
to explain post-colonial political economy in the global south.
The primary substantive focus is on the Caribbean. Sub-focus on
black immigrant identity construction in the United States.
Michel
Laguerre
Waldo
E. Martin, Jr.
Modern African American Cultural Politics: 1945-1980. Examining
the cultural impact and significance of the Civil Rights and Black
Power struggles on the Black Freedom Struggle specifically, and
postwar American Culture more generally.
Leigh
Raiford
My teaching and research interests include race, gender and visual
culture with an emphasis on film and photography; race and racial
formations of the United States; twentieth century African American
social movements; memory; and black popular culture.
Stephen
Small
Ula
Taylor
My work in progress: Re-Gendering a Nation:
A History of the Nation of Islam. (Read more about Professor
Taylor in the Fall 2002 issue
of Faultlines.)
Anthropology
Charles
Briggs
I have long been interested in the politics of
language, knowledge, and communication, particularly as they inform
and are informed by constructions of modernity and tradition and
modes of structuring and naturalizing social inequalities. I have
worked extensively in Chicano/a communities in New Mexico and
indigenous communities in Venezuela, and I am now conducting research
in Cuba, Venezuela, and California. My work focuses on racial
inequalities in health and constructions of popular violence,
and I am currently exploring how imaginations of knowledge and
communication produce and stratify subjectivities, particularly
through news coverage of health issues.
Meg
Conkey
Feminist thought in anthropology and archaeology;
the archaeology of gender, and the representation of gender in
the past. (Also, early human visual culture; prehistory of Europe;
archaeology and outreach; archaeology and multimedia.)
Aihwa
Ong
My research and teaching have always dealt with
the multiple connections between the United States and Asia. I
have written on overseas Chinese and on Southeast Asian refugees
in the United States. I treat the experiences of Asian immigrants
as a lens through which to ruminate on American citizenship, and
its reliance on race and gender modes of governing. Currently,
I am completing a book of essays that discusses the links between
neoliberal values and citizenship expectations in various locales
in the Asia Pacific. A new project explores the interplay of knowledge,
race and gender in globalizing Asian cities.
Asian American Studies
Catherine
Ceniza Choy
Professor Choy is an historian whose research interests
include interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to the
study of Asian American history, U.S. imperialism, and Philippine
and Filipino American Studies. Her book, Empire of Care: Nursing
and Migration in Filipino American History, analyzed the
imperial origins of the professionalization of Philippine nursing
and their connections to the mass migrations of Filipino nurses
in the second half of the twentieth century. She is beginning
a second book project that will focus on the history of the international
adoption of Asian children in the United States.
Evelyn
Nakano Glenn
My research interests focus on the political economy
of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration,
and citizenship. My current project is a historical comparative
study of the transnational race and gender division of caring
labor, which examines historical continuities in the association
between unequal citizenship and caring labor.
Elaine
Kim
I
am interested in Asian American literature and visual art, Korean
American literary and cultural studies, representations of gender
and ethnicity, sites of conflict and collaboration among
racialized groups, and U.S. public education.
Michael
Omi
Asian Americans and racial stratification, racial
and ethnic categories and the U.S. Census, and both racist and
anti-racist social movements.
Ronald
Takaki
Asian American History, multicultural history.
Katharya
Um
Prof. Um has written and published extensively
on the politics and developments in Southeast Asia, particularly
Indochina, and has participated in many international conferences
on the Pacific Rim. She brings to the field of Asian American
Studies an emphasis on the socio-historical and comparative approaches
to refugee and migration studies. Her current research interests
focus on transnational and on cultural transmission in the context
of population dislocation.
Ling-Chi
Wang
Asian American history, Asian American civil rights
issues; Overseas Chinese; U.S. foreign policies in Asia; bilingual
education; and Asian Americans in higher education.
Sau-Ling
C. Wong
Construction of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and
national & cultural membership in Asian American literature,
esp. Chinese American literature and Chinese-language immigrant
literature and film.
Business
Laura
Kray, Haas School of Business
My research explores the impact of gender stereotypes
on how men and women negotiate. Specifically, I explore the contexts
under which women fall prey to the negative stereotype that they
are ineffective negotiators versus react against it and prevail
at the bargaining table. I explore the interplay between power,
cognition, and motivation in mixed-gender negotiations.
Chicano
Studies
Norma
Alarcón
Beatriz
Manz
Interested in Mayan populations, refugees, migration to the US
Laura
Pérez
Prof. Pérez’s teaching and research are in
contemporary U.S. Latina and Latin American women's writing; Chicana/o
literature and visual arts; and contemporary cultural theory.
(Read more about Professor Pérez
in the Spring 2004
issue of Faultlines.)
Alex
Saragoza
Alex M. Saragoza received his Ph.D. in Latin American
history from University of California, San Diego. A specialist
on modern Mexico. Saragoza's work delves into the intersections
of Latin American history with that of the United States as a
consequence of migration. His research has examined the structural
origins of Mexican migration, focusing on the role of the state
in the process of the concentration of wealth and power in Mexico.
In addition, he has done research on the transnational aspects
of cultural formations in Mexico, including work on Mexican cinema,
radio and television. His current interests center on ideology
and representation from a transnational perspective.
Comparative
Literature
Chana
Kronfeld
Modernist women poets (Hebrew, Yiddish, English);
feminist stylistics; the marginal as exemplary in literary history;
ideology in literary historiography; translation as cultural negotiation.
Current projects include: The Grammars of Gender and the Genders
of Grammar: Rereading the "Woman as Land" Metaphor;
Israeli anti-war poetry and the return of the political poem;
a monograph titled The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry
of Yehuda Amichai, and a collaborative translation project
(with Chana Bloch), the Selected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch,
the leading Israeli woman poet and peace activist.
Economics
John
M. Quigley
I study spatial economic relationships in urban areas -- linkages
between housing, public services, and employment, for example.
I've studied the relationship between housing market segregation
and employment outcomes and evaluated policies to reduce the mismatch
between the residential locations of low-income and minority households
and metropolitan jobs. Most recently, I've analyzed the linkage
between immigration between and among metropolitan areas and the
levels of house prices in those areas.
Education
Daniel
Perlstein
My work focuses on the relationship of democratic
aspirations and social inequality in the history of American education.
This work has touched on issues ranging from gender and school
violence to the racial politics of urban education and the pedagogical
ideas of the African American freedom struggle. Current projects
include a history of the evolving relationship of liberalism and
American education.
Frank
Worrell
My research interests include a focus on racial
and ethnic identity and their relationship to achievement and
risk status in the United States and in Trinidad and Tobago. I
am also interested in developing instruments to measure these
constructs.
English
Elizabeth
Abel
My research over the past decade has addressed
the intersections of gender, race, and psychoanalysis. In my current
project, I analyze the representational politics of the Jim Crow
signs that traversed the United States for three quarters of a
century, and of the documentary movement that produced our cultural
memory of these signs. I also track the motivations and pathways
of the current industry in reproducing racial signs that have
become coveted items both for white supremacists and for African
American collectors struggling to preserve segregation's material
history.
Dorri
Beam
American
Literature before 1865, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Anne
Cheng
My
research interests often focus on the relationship between politics
and aesthetics, using literary and psychoanalytic materials as
the fulcrum through which to examine social issues relating to
racial and gender grief. My book The Melancholy of Race
argues for understanding race as a melancholic construction that
imprisons both dominnat and marginal subjects in haunted relations
of identification and loss. My new research includes a project
on the politics of beauty and race and a project on American film
comedies and the staging of race and gender therein.
Marcial
González
I am currently working on a book manuscript titled
The Chicana/o Novel: Toward a Dialectical Literary Criticism.
In this work, I undertake a study of several important Chicana/o
novels published from 1970 to 1992. I also analyze postmodernism's
influence on Chicana/o literary studies since 1980 and find that
postmodernism's critique of history and subjectivity has limited
the potential for Chicana/o literary and cultural studies to formulate
an effective social criticism.
Abdul
JanMohamed
My current project: the effect of the threat of
lynching on the formation of black male subjectivity.
Ron
Loewinsohn
Contemporary Literature
Colleen
Lye
History
of racialization and American empire; globalization and American
culture; Asia Pacific regionalisms; Asian American literary formations;
postcolonial theory and marxism. (Read
more about Professor Lye in the Spring
2005 issue of Faultlines.)
Chris
Nealon
I'm
interested in vernacular theories of history and historical experience.
Gautam
Premnath
My broad research and teaching interests are in
Anglophone postcolonial literature (especially from the Caribbean
and South Asia), post-1945 British literature, and theories of
nationalism, transnationalism, and diaspora. My current research
centers on rethinking the relationship between diaspora and nation,
through an examination of the cultural and literary traffic between
India and the diasporic Indian community in Trinidad.
José
Saldívar
My teaching and research focus on the areas of literary and cultural
studies, the history of the ethnic novel, inter-American subaltern
studies, and Chicano/a Studies. My articles have appeared in ALH
(American Literary History), Daedalus: Journal of
the Arts & Sciences, Nepantla, Revista Casa
de las Américas, The Americas Review, and
other major journals.
Bryan
Wagner
My
current research concerns violence and political modernization
after slavery. I’m writing a book, Disturbing the Peace:
Black Vagrancy and the Grounds of Race, which advances this
inquiry by reading black popular culture of the late nineteenth
century.
Environmental
Science, Policy & Management
Claudia
Carr
I am primarily involved in research concerning
alternative types of rural development policies in terrestrial
(especially drylands and river basin environments) and coastal
and offshore resources in the ‘Third World.’ My approach to development
problems, for a number of years in Africa but also in parts of
Latin America and Asia, entails identifying the global, national
and local processes involved in development (and conservation),
including the constraints they present for state and locally based
policy and practice. The international aid process provides a
major focus of this work, largely because of its pervasive influence
on development policy and practice in developing countries. Much
of my research has involved ‘indigenous’ populations and their
resources, from African agropastoral to coastal agro-fishing economic
contexts, including in western Latin America and the southern
Pacific region.
Ethnic
Studies
Mario
Barrera
I'm currently in the process of finishing a documentary
film entitled "Latino Stories of World War II." My most recent
article is "Are Latinos A Racialized Minority," which has been
submitted for publications. I expect my future academic research
to focus on the relationship between American political parties,
on the one hand, and ethnic and religious groups on the other.
Patricia
Hilden
I have just begun a project studying racialized groups and the
building of the railroads in the Southwest in the period from
the 1870s to WWII. I am particularly interested in Native Americans
working as wage laborers on the railroads, ont he effects of railroads
on Native communities (both physical and cultural). I am also
interested in the ways in which members of racialized groups interacted
while working for the railroads or for ancillary businesses.
Melinda
Micco (Mills College)
American
Indian history, film studies and literature, Multiracial identity
studies, Ethnic identity in tribal communities
José
Saldívar
My teaching and research focus on the areas of literary and cultural
studies, the history of the ethnic novel, inter-American subaltern
studies, and Chicano/a Studies. My articles have appeared in ALH
(American Literary History), Daedalus: Journal of
the Arts & Sciences, Nepantla, Revista Casa
de las Américas, The Americas Review, and
other major journals.
Geography
Beatriz
Manz
Interested in Mayan populations, refugees, migration to the US
Allan
Pred
In recent years my research has focused on the
production and denial of cultural racism, as well as the genealogy
of racializing stereotypes, in Sweden and Europe more generally.
History
Gordon
Chang (Stanford University)
Domestic
identities and international relations.
Jon
Gjerde
I have worked on immigration and the development
of ethnic groups in the United States with particular reference
to the migration from Europe in the nineteenth century. I am presently
working on a book length manuscript focused on anti-Catholicism
in the antebellum era as vehicle to construct nationhood among
the American born and the response of American Catholics to such
a project.
David
A. Hollinger
Impact of foreign missionary project (2/3 female)
on American culture and politics; theories of race and identity.
Waldo
E. Martin, Jr.
Modern African American Cultural Politics: 1945-1980. Examining
the cultural impact and significance of the Civil Rights and Black
Power struggles on the Black Freedom Struggle specifically, and
postwar American Culture more generally.
Jennifer
M. Spear
I'm particularly interested in the contexts and consequences of
cultural encounters in early America as Indians, Africans, and
Europeans came together to form "new worlds" and am
currently writing a history of racial formation and sexual regulation
in colonial New Orleans.
Integrative
Biology
Tyrone
Hayes
My research focuses on the role of steroid hormones
in amphibian development and I conduct both laboratory and field
studies in the U.S. and Africa. The two main areas of interest
are metamorphosis and sex differentiation, but I am also interested
in growth (larval and adult) and hormonal regulation of aggressive
behavior.
International
and Area Studies
David
Leonard
The
politics and administration of development, particularly in Africa.
John
Lie
I am currently working on two books. One is a work
of general social theory that focuses on modes of explanation,
tentatively entitled The Consolation of Social Theory.
Another is probably the final installment of my research on the
Korean diaspora, tentatively entitled Diasporic Nationalism.
Latin
American/Latino Studies
Felicity
Schaeffer-Grabiel (UC Santa Cruz)
I am interested in transnational culture, intimacy, and popular culture between Latin America and the United States. In my current project, I look at how globalization affects intimacy across national borders, how women from Latin America use contemporary global changes from neoliberalism, to the expansion of the Internet, migration circuits, tourism, to Internet marriage industries for their own benefit. Some of the questions I am interested in are: How does love intersect with the political economy? In what ways do contemporary patterns of desire reflect a history of empire? How do global changes reshape U.S. men’s masculine identities?
Boalt
School of Law
Angela
Harris
law
and subordination based on race, gender and class
Rachel
F. Moran
My
research has examined issues of race, ethnicity, and discrimination,
particularly as they relate to educational access and the growing
Latino population in the United States. In addition, I have published
a book on Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and
Romance and I am currently working on an anthology of "Race
and Law Stories." Other current projects include a study of the
recent Michigan litigation challenging affirmative action in law
school admissions.
Marjorie
Shultz
My research interests include issues of both race
and gender especially in the context of health care law and policy,
as well as in legal education. I have done considerable work on
the law and ethics of reproductive technology and medical research.
I am currently completing a 5 year empirical study that seeks
to develop a new law school admission test. The test my Co Investigator,
Sheldon Zedeck and I, are creating will try to predict who will
be good lawyer rather than simply who will be a good law student,
as is the focus of the current Law School Admission Test. We believe
that such a test could improve the racial diversity of law school
student bodies.
David
Alan Sklansky
Among my interests are issues of race and gender
in criminal justice. I have written, for example, about racially
disproportionate drug sentences, about racial bias in vehicle
stops, about the role of equality in the law of search and seizure,
and about the changing racial and gender demographics of American
police forces.
Leti
Volpp
My research centers on legal understandings of
the relationship between culture, migration and identity, and
on theories of citizenship. I am in particular interested in Asian
American racialization and in the culturalization of racism, especially
as it is expressed through concern about cultural forms of gendered
subordination.
Linguistics
Leanne
Hinton
My primary research interests revolve around language
death and language revitalization, and thus the politics of language.
Since race is a very important issue in language politics and
language death, I have frequently been involved in language issues
that involve race, such as the ebonics controversy, Official English,
bilingual education, and laws affecting immigrant languages and
Native American languages. I have also done research on language
and gender, and run classes where many of the term papers are
about language and gender, language and race, or an intersection
of both. I am working on a book called "The American Languages,"
related to a class I teach by the same name, which will have a
number of chapters on language and race and/or gender. (Read more about Professor Hinton in the
Spring 2003
issue of Faultlines.)
Richard
Rhodes
Algonquian languages (Ojibwe/Ottawa, Cree), Mixe-Zoquean languages
(Sayuleño), mixed languages (Métchif), language
contact, language spreads, pronominal systems
Mechanical
Engineering
Alice
Agogino
Alice M. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and directs several computational
and design research and instructional laboratories at Cal. She
received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University
of New Mexico, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1978) from the
University of California at Berkeley, and Ph.D. from the Department
of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University (1984).
She has authored over 120 scholarly publications in the areas
of: MEMS/Mechatronics design methods; nonlinear optimization;
intelligent learning systems; multi-objective and strategic product
design; probabilistic modeling; intelligent control and manufacturing;
graphics, multimedia and computer-aided design; design databases;
digital libraries; artificial intelligence and decision and expert
systems; and gender & technology.
Native
American Studies
Steve
Crum (UC Davis)
(Read more about Professor Crum in the
Fall 2004
issue of Faultlines.)
Nimachia
Hernandez
Native American philosophy and cosmology as told
in story.
Patricia
Hilden
I have just begun a project studying racialized groups and the
building of the railroads in the Southwest in the period from
the 1870s to WWII. I am particularly interested in Native Americans
working as wage laborers on the railroads, ont he effects of railroads
on Native communities (both physical and cultural). I am also
interested in the ways in which members of racialized groups interacted
while working for the railroads or for ancillary businesses.
Gerald
Vizenor
Political
Science
David
Leonard
The
politics and administration of development, particularly in Africa.
Taeku
Lee
My primary interests are in racial/ethnic politics,
public opinion/survey research, and social movements/political
participation. I am currently at work on several projects that
examine the concept of "race" and "identity" and their consequences
for contemporary politics in the US.
Psychology
Stephen
Hinshaw
I am interested, among many topics, in the development of psychopathology
(particularly attention deficits, antisocial behavior, and depression)
in girls and women. Our longitudinal databases also include diverse
samples from an ethnic and racial perspective. I am also pursuing
research on the stigmatization of mental illness across diverse
cultures.
Dacher
Keltner
Dacher's research interests focus on three broad
questions. A first pertains to the determinants and consequences
of power and status. A second focuses on how individual differences
in emotion, say the tendency towards compassion or awe, shape
the individual's relationships life course. A final interest has
to do with characterizing the forms and functions of the different
positive emotions, including awe, love, gratitude, compassion.
Ann
Kring
My broad research interests are in emotion and
psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on schizophrenia and
depression. One ongoing study is examining emotional responding
in women with schizophrenia. A second major focus of my research
is on the origins and consequences of individual differences in
emotional expressivity. Ongoing studies seek to answer questions
such as under what circumstances and in the presence of what individuals
might men and women differ in the expression of specific emotions;
how social context modifies dispositional expressive tendencies,
and the ways in which men and women use emotion to negotiate status
and power differences.
Rodolfo
Mendoza-Denton
My broad research interests lie in issues at the
interface of culture, social cognition, and intergroup processes.
More specifically, I draw from an interactionist, Person-in-Situation
perspective to understand how marginalization of one’s social
group affects basic processes related to social identity and intergroup
relationships.
Kaiping
Peng
The central theme of my current research interests
is the intricate relationship between human cultures and basic
psychological processes, with focuses on two lines of research:
1) culture and social cognition, studying cultural effects on
causal inference, judgment and decision making, 2) cultural and
cognitive aspects of ethnicity and race, including the nature,
function and centrality of white, black and Asian identities.
School
of Public Health
Susan
Ivey
Dr. Ivey is interested in cardiovascular risk factors in vulnerable
populations especially immigrants, and women especially. She also
is interested in local and national policy change to improve access
to health care services and improve overall health status.
Public
Policy
Dan
Kammen
Science and technology policy focused on energy,
development and environmental management. Technology and policy
questions in developing nations, particularly involving: the linkages
between energy, health, and the environment; technology transfer
and diffusion; household energy management; renewable energy;
women; minority groups. Global environmental change including
deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption.
Environmental and technological risk. Management of innovation
and energy R&D policy. Geographic expertise: Africa; Latin
America.
Rhetoric/Film
Chris
Berry
My interests include the role of cinema in constructing
and subverting national identity, including the way in which national
identity intersects with race, gender, and sexuality issues.
Shannon
Jackson, Rhetoric and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
My research is located in performance studies and
American studies from the late 19th century to contemporary, focusing
on the role of social and aesthetic performances in movements
for social change and in the history of higher education. My current
project considers the infrastructural politics of art practices
that respond to materially fraught issues such as housing, the
environment, disability, childcare, labor inequity, and social
welfare.
Charis
Thompson
My current research involves the ways in which
various kinds of "cultural" views of race, ethnicity, nation,
and immigration status are being reinscribed back into the language
of science through DNA, genetic, and reproductive science and
medicine. In particular, I am looking ethnographically at hierarchies
of choice and preference of egg and sperm and embryo donors by
couples and individuals in a number of different sites in the
US, and transnationally. Skin color and its codings as beauty,
class, agragrian status, ethnorace, nation, and so on, are a major
dimension of my analysis. Areas of interest include Feminist Theory;
Science and Technology Studies; Reproductive and Genetic Technologies;
Transnational Comparative Studies of Reproduction, Population,
Biodiversity and Environment. Recent book: Ontological Choreography:
Reproductive Technologies and their Subjectivities and Economies.
Linda
Williams
I
am interested in the intersections of race, gender and sexuality
in moving image culture.
Social
Welfare
Julian
Chow
My research has centered on two substantive areas:
first, to study social service delivery and program development
for ethnic minority and especially immigrant populations within
a community context. Second, to understand the factors that are
attributable to the differential use of human and social services
among ethnic minority populations. My interest is to seek ways
to improve access to services and to provide better community
care for ethnic minority and immigrant groups.
Kurt
Organista
HIV prevention and the treatment of depression
with Mexican/Latino migrants in the US.
Sociology
Irene
Bloemraad
Irene Bloemraad focuses on nexus between immigration
and politics, with a special focus on the dynamics that facilitate
(or hinder) immigrants' incorporation into the political systems
of the United States and Canada. Current projects examine immigrant/ethnic
community organizations, the role of NGOs in fostering immigrant
women's political leadership, the degree of "public voice" accorded
to immigrants in the mainstream media, the political socialization
of Mexican-American children in mixed-status families and research
on naturalization and dual citizenship. Some of these themes appear
in Bloemraad's forthcoming book, Becoming a Citizen, to be published
in 2006 by University of California Press.
John
Lie
I am currently working on two books. One is a work
of general social theory that focuses on modes of explanation,
tentatively entitled The Consolation of Social Theory.
Another is probably the final installment of my research on the
Korean diaspora, tentatively entitled Diasporic Nationalism.
Martin
Sanchez-Jankowski
My work involves the study of inter-ethnic violence
in Los Angeles and Oakland Schools, and research on the dynamics
of social change and persistence in long-term poverty neighborhoods
in Los Angeles and New York City.
Sandra
Smith
My research interests focus on urban poverty, joblessness,
and social networks and social capital. I am currently completing
a book manuscript, tentatively titled Lone Pursuit: Cultures of
Distrust and Individualism among Black Poor Jobseekers, in which
I examine the role of joblessness discourses in inhibiting or
facilitating cooperation between black poor jobseekers and their
jobholding ties.
Barrie
Thorne
I am currently writing a book about children (ages
5 to 11), from varied social class and racial-ethnic backgrounds,
who are growing up in a mixed-income area of Oakland, California.
This ethnographic study of contemporary urban childhoods is based
on three years of team fieldwork and interviews with 82 kids and
80 parents from a wide range of social class and racial-ethnic
backgrounds who live in the area we are studying. How, this project
asks, do parents and children who live in the same city, but in
different material and cultural circumstances, perceive and negotiate
larger political and economic changes such as widening income
gaps, an increasingly diverse racial-ethnic landscape, and the
decline of public responsibility for children? How are boundaries
relating to "race," social class, immigration, gender,
and age constituted and reconfigured, partly through the actions
of children?
Loic
Wacquant
My interests include race as a denegated form of
ethnicity; embodiment; the penal state; urban marginality; social
theory and the politics of reason. One project is a comparative
historical sociology of the four "peculiar institutions" that
have fabricated race in the United States over four centuries:
slavery, the Jim Crow system of racial terrorism, the urban ghetto,
and the hyperghetto-cum-prison.
Women's
Studies
Paola
Bacchetta
transnational feminist theory; gender, sexuality,
race, religion; nationalisms (especially Hindu nationalism); religious,
ethnic and political conflict; social movements (feminist, lesbian,
anti-racism, and right-wing); space; postcolonial theory; qualitative
methods (discourse analysis and ethnography). Geographic areas
of specialization outside the United States: India and France.
(Read more about Professor Bacchetta in the Fall
2003 issue of Faultlines.)
Minoo Moallem
Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister. Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, University of California Press, 2005. She is also the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation. Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State, Duke University Press, 1999, and the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees.
Charis
Thompson
My current research involves the ways in which
various kinds of "cultural" views of race, ethnicity, nation,
and immigration status are being reinscribed back into the language
of science through DNA, genetic, and reproductive science and
medicine. In particular, I am looking ethnographically at hierarchies
of choice and preference of egg and sperm and embryo donors by
couples and individuals in a number of different sites in the
US, and transnationally. Skin color and its codings as beauty,
class, agragrian status, ethnorace, nation, and so on, are a major
dimension of my analysis. Areas of interest include Feminist Theory;
Science and Technology Studies; Reproductive and Genetic Technologies;
Transnational Comparative Studies of Reproduction, Population, Biodiversity and Environment. Recent book: Ontological Choreography:
Reproductive Technologies and their Subjectivities and Economies.
Barrie
Thorne
I am currently writing a book about children (ages
5 to 11), from varied social class and racial-ethnic backgrounds,
who are growing up in a mixed-income area of Oakland, California.
This ethnographic study of contemporary urban childhoods is based
on three years of team fieldwork and interviews with 82 kids and
80 parents from a wide range of social class and racial-ethnic
backgrounds who live in the area we are studying. How, this project
asks, do parents and children who live in the same city, but in
different material and cultural circumstances, perceive and negotiate
larger political and economic changes such as widening income
gaps, an increasingly diverse racial-ethnic landscape, and the
decline of public responsibility for children? How are boundaries
relating to "race," social class, immigration, gender,
and age constituted and reconfigured, partly through the actions
of children?
