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Board of DirectorsNote: Contact information is provided exclusively for NAES-related business, including serious inquiries about the organization. Other uses, including but not limited to commercial solicitations, and the harvesting of e-mail addresses for any kind of mailing lists, are expressly forbidden. Members of the Board of Directors serve staggered four-year terms, except for the graduate student representative, who serves a two-year term. Board members must attend three meetings a year: one at the annual conference in the Spring; one in the Phoenix area in the Fall; and one in the Summer at the site of the following year's conference. Between meetings, each Board member is expected to serve on several committees and to further the business of NAES in other ways. Board members receive no travel support or compensation from the organization, so they must secure funding from their home institutions or pay their own way. Candidates for the Board must have been NAES members for at least one year prior to serving. We encourage individuals interested in nominating themselves or others to contact the chair of the Nominations Committee. Serving on an NAES standing committee is excellent preparation for Board service, and offers a significant way to serve the organization. Nearly all of the standing committees need non-Board members to contribute. To inquire about serving on an NAES committee, please contact the chair of the committee in which you are interested. You can find that information on the NAES Committees page. Members of the Board of Directors (terms end at the annual conference in the year indicated in parentheses): Diana Ariza (2013)
is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Albion College in Michigan. Professor Ariza was hired three years ago to develop an Ethnic Studies Program which includes collaborating with faculty, students and staff to establish interdisciplinary courses, internships, research projects, and co-curricular events that foster a deeper understanding and study of race and ethnicity and both the domestic and international levels. In addition to her full time teaching and research responsibilities, she also is committed to developing relationships with organizations whose work strengthens multicultural and multicultural relationships locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. Her teaching and research interests include immigrant studies, gender inequity, youth identity and migration, particularly with second generation immigrants in the U.S. and other countries, including Canada, Europe, and Latin America, to name a few. She is currently working on several papers that address second generation Latina/o issues including their identity, migration and their adaptation to Central Florida. She has presented at several NAES Annual Conferences and cherishes the mentorship and collegial spirit that she has received thus far from its members. One of her roles in NAES is to promote and mentor more undergraduate and graduate students to be a part of this rigorous, intellectual and caring community. Linda Delgado (2013)
Linda C. Delgado is currently the Director at The Center for Ethnic Race Studies in NY. This is a progressive think tank that brings together scholars, educators, community advocates and other stakeholders to develop educational strategies and programs at all levels. She was previously the Director of the Latino/a Student Cultural Center and Special Assistant to the Provost on Retention at Northeastern University. Her recent publications and areas of interest are Puerto Rican Women's History: New Perspectives, Felix M. Rodriguez and Linda C. Delgado, eds.; Making it in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans, Elliot Barkan, ed.; "Arroz con Pollo vs. Slim Fast" in Women: Images and Realities, A Multicultural Anthology, 2nd ed., Amy Kesselman, Lily McNair, and Nancy Schneidewind, eds.; Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, Completing the Twentieth Century, Susan Ware, ed. , Encyclopedia of Latinas in the U.S., Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds.; "Jesus Colon and the Making of a New York City Community," The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives, Carmen Whalen and Victor Vazquez, eds. Professor Delgado, chairs the Publications Committee, is editor of The Ethnic Reporter and is the 2005 recipient of the Charles C. Irby Distinguished Service Award. She earned a BS in Second ED/Social Studies and a MPS with focus on Higher Ed Administration from State University of New York at New Paltz and her PhD from Capella University. Her dissertation title was "Hispanic Students' Perceptions of Financial Security and Persistence in a Four Year, Private, Urban College." Larry Estrada (2012)
Dr. Larry Estrada, Director of American Cultural Studies and Associate Professor in Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, is responsible for the administration and development of curricula within the American Cultural Studies Program as well as working on curricular transformation efforts within Western Washington University. During his tenure at Western Washington University Dr. Estrada has held a number of different posts. These have included Asst. Vice President for Student Affairs-Diversity, Vice Provost for Diversity, Vice Provost, Acting Vice President for Student Affairs and Acting Provost. Dr. Estrada came to Western Washington University twelve years ago from Colorado State University where he was a faculty member in education and served in various administrative capacities over a ten year period. His recent research and work includes the issues of immigration patterns between Mexico and the United States as well as the social, cultural implications of public policy related to indigenous folk healing and curanderismo withn the Mexican states of Michoacán and Oaxaca. Dr. Estrada received his formal education at the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A.) in speech communication and journalism; M.A. in Education Administration at Whittier College and a Ph.D. in Education and Sociology at UCLA. He has also been a post-doctoral scholar at the Univesity of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University His present teaching responsibilities include American Cultural Studies, Chicana-o Studies, social theory and U.S./Mexico relations. Sandra J. Holstein (2010)
Sandra J. Holstein is Professor of English, Honors, and Women's Studies at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches modern American, Chinese and African writers and race, gender and class theory. She served on the Board of Directors for Southern Oregon GLSEN and the Women's Studies Council at SOU, which she chaired for ten years. She received her B.A .in English at UCLA and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She taught at Mercy College and the New York State Prisons, Hong Kong Shue Yan College, Fujian Normal University, and as Fulbright Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Sogang University in Seoul. Shirley A. Jackson (2010)
Dr. Shirley A. Jackson, is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, Connecticut. She also teaches courses in the Women's Studies Program. Her areas of specialization are race/ethnicity, gender, and social movements. Dr. Jackson received her masters and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Jackson has conducted research on mentoring programs for African American girls and empowerment in African American women's organizations. Her most recent research projects include a socio-historical exploration of U.S. and global themes of race/ethnicity and gender in political cartoons during WWII, the Civil Rights Movement, and Post-9/11 and a study of the activism of an African American women's social fellowship organization. Dr. Jackson is also working on a new text on global race relations. She is currently working to develop an Ethnic Studies program at Southern Connecticut State University. Dr. Jackson is an active member of several professional associations. She has served as President of the New England Sociological Association, Chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and on committees in the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Association of Black Sociologists, and other professional associations. Dr. Jackson's community involvement includes working with Habitat for Humanity, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, United Way of Greater New Haven, and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven's Women and Girl's Fund.
Connie Jacobs (2012)
Connie A. Jacobs is a Professor Emeritus at San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico where she served at Chair of the English Department. Additionally, she co-directed and helped build the college's Honors Program. Her teaching focused on Ethnic Literatures, and she specialized in American Indian Literatures, especially the work of Diné poets Luci Tapahonso and Esther Belin and Ojibwe writer, Louise Erdrich. Her books include The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People and Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich, co-edited with Greg Sarris and published by MLA. She currently serves on MLA's Committee for Two-Year Colleges as well as on the board of her local Adult Education Center. She is beginning her 3rd term on the NAES Board of Directors. She has been program director for two conferences, Vancouver and Philadelphia, and now serves on the Conference Planning Committee along with chairing the Student Paper Competitions. She is in her second term as secretary of the Executive Board of NAES. George Junne (2013)
Dr. George H. Junne, Jr. is a professor of Africana Studies at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. He is the author of Afroamerican History,Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico and History of Blacks in Canada: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Dr. Junne received all of his degrees (B.F.A., M.A., and Ph.D.) from the University of Michigan. His interests include African American history and culture, African-derived religions of Cuba, the Black West and African slavery in the Ottoman Empire. Dr. Junne also performs fieldwork with the University of Michigan's Museum of Paleontology and has been a visiting professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. Robin McKinney (2011)
Robin McKinney, PhD, LPC, LMSW, ACSW, DAPA is assistant professor of social work at Western Michigan University. He has been Program Director for the BSW Progam and a member of several faculty committees. Dr. McKinney publishes on sexual orientation, African American families, and mental health issues. As a licensed social worker and professional counselor, Dr. McKinney continues to work with "special needs" children and their families. Dr. McKinney is a frequent presenter at various national conferences. He has been a memer o the National Association for Ethnic Studies for 10 years and has presented at the NAES conference each year. Dr. McKinney received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, an MSW from the University of Michigan, an MA from Central Michigan University, and a BM from Central Michigan University.
Maythee Rojas (2010)
Maythee Rojas is an associate professor in Women Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She received her Ph.D. in English from Arizona State University. Her research specializations include Chicana/o & Latina/o literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is currently completing a manuscript on the uses of the erotic in Chicana literature entitled, Following the Flesh: Embodied Transgressions in Chicana Literature. Rojas has published in Frontiers, MELUS, Women’s Studies Quarterly and reference books such Notable American Women, Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, and Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia. Caleb Rosado (2011)
Caleb Rosado is Professor of Urban Studies at Warner Pacific College in Portland, OR, and Director of the Urban Studies Program. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University, a Master's in New Testament Studies from Andrews University, and a Bachelors in Theology from Pacific Union College. He has taught in diverse academic settings in the United States, the UK, and in Latin America. These venues include: community colleges; small to midsize private colleges and universities; and large state universities. He has served as department chair in two schools, and as director of a branch campus. His areas of expertise in sociology are: Race Relations, Theory, Urban, Religion, Latina/o Studies, and Wisdom/Ethics. Dr. Rosado has also been a human systems consultant since 1978. He has worked on issues of human relations and human systems change with government agencies; universities; K-12 school districts; corporations; churches; and community organizations. He has studied religion and social change in revolutionary Cuba, refugee life in internment camps in Thailand, street life in England, and cultural life in Spain. He has written three books and numerous professional articles. His latest publication, in his current area of research focus (quantum physics and urban transformation), is titled "Context Determines Content: Quantum Physics as a Framework for "Wholeness" in Urban Transformation." It will be published in the September 2008 issue of the Urban Studies Journal. Prior to coming to Warner Pacific College, Caleb taught at Southern Connecticut State University and at Quinnipiac University. Carleen D. Sanchez (2012)
Dr. Carleen D. Sanchez, Assistant Professor, holds a joint position in the Institute for Ethnic Studies and Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In addition she is an affiliate with the Womens and Gender Studies program. Dr. Sanchez received a B.A. degree in Political Science from California State University Fullerton; her M.A. and Ph.D. are in Anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara. Her dissertation was supported with a Fulbright Scholarship and focused on archaeological excavations in Honduras. However, Dr. Sanchez maintains a variety of interests including Ancestral Mesoamerica, Latin American Indigenous movements, Feminist and Gender studies, and Popular Culture. Her current writing project is a cultural biography of Frida Kahlo placed within the context of post-revolutionary Mexico. Mert Sanivar (2010)
Mert Sanivar is an M.A candidate in English Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. He started his graduate study in fall 2007 right after earning his Bachelors degree in spring 2007 in American Culture and Literature at Baskent University in his native Turkey. Mert has been a member of NAES since November 2006 when he attended the first international NAES Conference entitled "Transnational Perspectives: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion" which was held in Istanbul at Bogazici University. From then on Mert Sanivar attended annual NAES conferences on a regular basis. 2007 NAES conference had taken place at SUNY New Paltz where Mert presented his first paper abroad on his preliminary study about African descended Turkish people and their unwritten history. 2008 NAES Conference was at Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, GA, where Mert was one of the conference assistants. Besides his interest in literary and cultural studies Mert involved in teaching English language during his college years. Earning his English Language Teaching (ELT) degree in 2005 from Hacettepe University (Ankara) from the Faculty of Education, Mert taught in various language teaching and immersion institutions. He also, as part of his extracurricular activities during college years in Turkey, took major responsibilities in the organization and operation of various conferences, panels, and symposiums besides being awarded several academic grants by the American Studies Association of Turkey. In late Fall 2007, Mert Sanivar qualified for a Graduate Assistantship position in the office of the Dean of The Graduate School at SUNY New Paltz. Currently he is the (program-campus) assistant to the Director of SUNY-YOK Dual Diploma Program- a bi-national joint degree program involving some well known Turkish universities such as METU (Middle East Tech. Uni.), ITU (Istanbul Tech. Uni), IUE (Izmir University of Economics) and most of the colleges and universities in SUNY system. Additionally, since January 2008, Mert Sanivar has been a Research Assistant in the English Department at SUNY New Paltz. Among Merts major research interests are 20th Century African American novelists, 20th Century American Fiction, American Cultural Studies, literary theory, and political science. Upon completing his M.A in English, Mert, plans to pursue a Ph.D in the U.S in one of the related fields. Ron Scapp (2011)
Ron Scapp is the founding director of the Graduate Program in Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx, where he is professor of humanities and teacher education. He is a fellow of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University. Ron's work focuses on urban education, educational leadership and policy and teacher empowerment. He also writes on topics as varied as homelessness, American theater and contemporary continental philosophy. He is the author, editor and co-editor of a number of books and other publications, including Teaching Values: Critical Perspectives on Education, Politics and Culture. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and is a member of Group Thought, a philosophy collective based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Larry Hajime Shinagawa (2013)
Larry Hajime Shinagawa received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past 30 years, he has been involved in the fields of American studies, multicultural education, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies. Early in his career, he helped assist in the development of the Nation's first Ph.D. Program in Ethnic Studies at Berkeley. At Ithaca College in New York, he served recently as Director and Associate Professor of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and the Sociology Department of Ithaca College. As the Center Director, he was responsible for the development of academic programs in African New World Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, Native American Studies, and Comparative American and Ethnic Studies. Earlier, he was Chair of the Ethnic Studies Departments and American Multicultural Studies (AMCS) at Sonoma State University, which grew into one of the nation's largest set of academic programs in ethnic studies. The AMCS Department, under his leadership, also established the nation's first 4-year integrated teacher credential major program with an emphasis in multicultural education and ethnic studies. Dr. Shinagawa has been an author and editor of numerous articles, books, anthologies, and book series related to ethnic studies, multicultural education, and demography. His research areas are in the social demography of racial groups in the U.S., intermarriage, multiracial identity, and Asian American culture and community. He is currently the Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland at College Park. He also is a tenured associate professor of American Studies and is currently the Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Census Information Center. Ashton W. Welch (2012)
Ashton W. Welch is the Director of Black Studies at Creighton University. A former Director of the Honors Program and Chair of the Department of History, he was a founder of the African Studies Program at Creighton. He was also one of the originators of the Diversity Project, a program to assist faculty with diversity in the curriculum. In 2001, he became the first holder of the Michael W. Barry Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences. His educational journey includes the B.A. in History from Wilberforce University, the M.A. History and a Certificate in African Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Ph.D. in History from the University of Birmingham (England). His current teaching and research center on social change in Africa and the African diaspora. He is especially interested in intersections between ethnicity and the law in the U.S. and in South Africa as well as in Christian missionaries in Africa. At Creighton, Dr. Welch has been recognized for teaching and for service. His honors include the all-University teaching award (the Robert F. Kennedy Award), the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, the all-university award for service, the College of Arts and Sciences' Professional Award for Excellence in Service, and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Advising. His community service includes the Board of Directors of the Omaha Black Catholic Student Scholarship Fund, the Great Plains Black Museum, and the Creighton Federal Credit Union as well assisting junior and high school students in preparing for the national African American History Challenge. He is Consultant-Evaluator for the Higher Learning Commission chairing re-accreditation site visits. Professor Welch is NAES Vice President. He was NAES Treasurer prior to his becoming the Vice President. Susan Burges
Susan Burges was introduced to NAES as an undergraduate student at Western Washington University, where she received her B.A. She double majored in Spanish and Sociology, with emphases on Law, Crime & Deviance as well as Family & Life. Susan presented a paper entitled "HIV and AIDS in the LGBT Latin@ Community in the U.S." at the 37th Annual NAES Conference in San Diego, CA. She studied abroad at three universities in Santiago, Chile while volunteering and teaching English to Chilean high school students. In addition to her work with NAES, she works for the American Cultural Studies Program at WWU. |
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