Board of Directors

Members of the Board of Directors (terms end at the annual conference in the year indicated in parentheses):

College of Mount Saint Vincent
LinDlgd@aol.com

Linda C. Delgado is currently a visiting scholar at The College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City, Department of Graduate Studies for Urban and Multicultural Education. She was previously the Director of the Latino/a Student Cultural Center and Special Assistant to the Provost 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. With forthcoming 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.

Western Washington University
larry.estrada@wwu.edu

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)

Southern Oregon University
holstein@sou.edu

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)

Southern Connecticut State University
jacksons1@southernct.edu

Dr. Shirley A. Jackson, is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University. She is also affiliated faculty for 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 members of two African American women’s and men’s social fellowship organizations. 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 Chair 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 serving as both as Family Partner and Family Selection committee member for Habitat for Humanity and serving on grant awards committees for The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, including the organization’s Women and Girl’s Fund.

Connie Jacobs (2008)

San Juan College
cajacobs@frontier.net

Connie A. Jacobs is an assistant professor at San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico, which borders the Navajo Nation. Nearly one half of the students at the college are either Navajo or Hispanic, and Jacobs has primary responsibity for bringing Native American and Hispanic writers and poets to the campus. Her specialty area is ethnic literatures, and she is the author of The Novels of Louise Erdrich: Stories of Her People and the co-editor along with Greg Sarris and James Giles of the forthcoming MLA publication Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich.

University of Northern Colorado
ghjunne@aol.com

Dr. George H. Junne, Jr. is an associate 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 the forthcoming 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.

University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
majak.jona@uwlax.edu

Robin McKinney (2010)

Western Michigan University
robin.mckinney@wmich.edu

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.

Kansas State University

mahafan@ksu.edu

Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer is a Professor of Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies at Kansas State University where, she was the founding director of the university's American Ethnic Studies Program. In 2001, she served as Fulbright Professor of Ethnology at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She earned a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Tulane University. Her research focuses on African and African-American cultures, with special emphasis on music, language, and life-story narrative. Her publications include Ethnicity: Global Perspectives (an issue of Explorations in Ethnic Studies), Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans (with Pleasant 'Cousin Joe' Joseph), Music of the Comoro Islands--Domoni (with Martin Ottenheimer), Historical Dictionary of the Comoro Islands (with Martin Ottenheimer) and over forty publications on blues, language, dictionary construction, ethnicity, and life-story narrative. Current projects include a computerized Comorian and English bilingual dictionary, the African origins of the blues, and an introductory linguistic anthropology textbook. Active in outreach, advising, and mentoring, she has received her university's Presidential Award for Distinguished Service to Minority Education and NAES's Charles Irby Award for Distinguished Service. She has served NAES as Secretary, Book Review Editor, Conference Organizer, and President. Her textbook, "The Anthropology of Language," has just been published by Wadsworth Press. An introduction to linguistic anthropology, it stresses the importance of understanding gender and ethnicity in language use, and issues of gender and ethnicity are infused throughtout the text. a Workbook/reader accompanies the textbook. She was recently interviewed for "Respekt," a leading independent literary journal in Prague, on the subject of ethnicity, stereotypes, and civil rights.

Annette L. Reed (2010)

California State University, Sacramento
alreed@csus.edu

Annette L. Reed, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies and Director of Native American Studies at California State University, Sacramento. She is tribally enrolled at the Smith River Rancheria in northwestern California and is Tolowa. Dr. Reed holds a B.A. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), secondary teaching credential, a Master’s degree in U.S. History from the University of California, Davis, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UCB. Her scholarly works and interests include the following: California Indian histories; culture and current issues; Native American history; Native American women; and Contemporary Native topics. She has published various articles and is working on a book manuscript on early Tolowa history. Annette has served in various capacities in the local, state and national communities. She has served: an eight year term on the Board of Directors for the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland California (Two years as board chair and two years as vice chair); Board of Directors of the National Indian Education Association; a variety of University committees; “Summer Rez” planning committee (college motivation for Native high school students); and various other community projects and activities. Annette chaired the California Indian Conference and Gathering 2001, which is the largest gathering of its kind with 1500 in attendance and over 100 presenters over a three-day period. Annette Reed has participated in NAES conferences for the past several years.

California State University, Long Beach 

mrojas2@csulb.edu

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. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Ethnic Studies (NAES). 

University of Maryland

lshinaga@umd.edu

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 (2008)

Creighton University
awelch@creighton.edu

Ashton W. Welch holds the Michael William Barry Professorship at Creighton University. A former chair of the Department of History, he is the Coordinator of the Black Studies Program, and Director of the Honors Program. His teaching and research center on social and political change in Africa and on African Americans in American culture. 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. He is a Consultant-Evaluator for a regional accrediting agency.

Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez

Office Manager
naes@wwu.edu

Cecily Hazelrigg-Hernandez has worked as the National Office Manager since September 2005. A Pacific Northwest local, she completed her undergraduate studies at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College, double majoring in American Cultural Studies (with a self-created emphasis in Social Justice, Activism & Law) and Paralegal Studies. Cecily then went on to earn a Juris Doctorate degree from Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane, Washington. As both an undergraduate and law student, Cecily studied abroad in México, including a term at the Universidad de Guanajuato Facultad de Derecho in Guanajuato. In addition to her work with NAES, she is adjunct faculty at Western Washington University's Fairhaven College, teaching in the American Cultural Studies Program, and has a private immigration law practice.