Nicholas De Genova

Latino/a Studies and Anthropology
Email npd18@columbia.edu
Office 452 Schermerhorn ~ Office Hours: W 1:15 - 3:15 PM
Phone Ext. 854-5901

Nicholas De Genova is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino Studies at Columbia University. He was previously a visiting professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University, where he also taught in the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity program. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. His ethnographic research among transnational Mexican migrant factory workers in Chicago concerned the conjunctures of racialization, labor subordination, and the politics of immigration and citizenship in the United States. Professor De Genova’s current research concerns the politics of race, citizenship, and immigration in the United States in relation to the so-called War on Terrorism and the rise of the Homeland Security State. Professor De Genova is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and "Illegality" in Mexican Chicago (Duke University Press, September 2005), and co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (Routledge, 2003). He is also the editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (Duke University Press, 2006), and has recently co-edited a book, provisionally entitled The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (Duke University Press, 2009). He is currently completing a new book, The Spectacle of Terror: Immigration, Race, and the Homeland Security State.

Ana Maria Ochoa

Director, Center for Ethnomusicology and CSER

Professor Ochoa is Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University. She holds a Ph D in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University (1996). Her areas of interest include music and cultural policy, music and armed conflict, intellectual property, and intellectual histories of sound and music in Latin America, with emphasis on Colombia. Prof. Ochoa taught previously at Columbia (2003-2005) and at New York University (2005-2008). She is the former director of the Music Archives of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. She has also been a researcher at the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (Colombia) as well as at The Centro Nacional de Información, Investigación y Documentación Musical Carlos Chávez (CENIDIM) in Mexico. With great pleasure, The Center for Ethnomusicology announces that Prof. Ana Maria Ochoa has assumed the Directorship of the Center.

Relevant links: http://www.ethnocenter.org/AnaOchoatoDirectCenter

Gary Y. Okihiro

International and Public Affairs and CSER
Email gyo3@columbia.edu
Office 80 Claremont Rm. 309 ~ Office Hours: T & R 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Phone Ext. 854-0508

Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of international and public affairs. His books include Common Ground: Reimagining American History (2001); A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century (2000); Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (1994); and Cane Fires: The Anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii, 1865-1945 (1991).

Claudio Lomnitz

Latino/a Studies and Anthropology
Email cl2510@columbia.edu
Office 422 Hamilton ~ Office Hours: W 9:00 - 11:00 AM
Phone Ext. 854-0195

Claudio Lomnitz works on culture and politics in Mexico and in the Americas. His books include Evolución de una sociedad rural (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982); Exits from the Labyrinth: Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (University of California Press, 1992); Modernidad Indiana: nación y mediación en México (Planeta, 1999); Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2001); and, most recently, Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005). Claudio Lomnitz is currently the editor of the journal Public Culture. Lomnitz is the Campbell Family Profrssor of Anthropology at Columbia.

Relevant links: publicculture.org, nuevoexcelsior.com.mx, bostonreview.net/BR31.5/lomnitz.html

Nicole P. Marwell (On Leave 08 - 09)

Latino/a Studies and Sociology
Email npm8@columbia.edu
Office 323M Fayerweather
Phone Ext. 854-0506

Nicole P. Marwell works in the areas of urban, organizational, and political sociology, with a substantive focus on nonprofit organizations, local and state politics, and Latina/o communities. Her new book is titled Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City (University of Chicago Press, 2007). She has published articles in the American Sociological Review and the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and is a member of the editorial board of the American Sociological Association’s Rose Series in Sociology. Her current research includes an analysis of government contracting to nonprofit organizations in New York City, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and a study of the Latina/o middle class. Dr. Marwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Latina/o Studies at Columbia University, a member of the advisory board of Columbia’s Revson Fellowship Program, and a faculty affiliate of the university’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, Center on Urban Research and Policy, and Center on Organizational Innovation.

Relevant links: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/marwell/faculty.html

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Latino/a Studies and English
Email fn2103@columbia.edu
Office 422 Hamilton ~ Office Hours: T 1:30 - 2:30 PM & R 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Phone Unavailable

Frances Negrón-Muntaner is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and scholar. She is the author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture (named 2004 Choice Outstanding Book), the editor of four books, including Sovereign Acts (South End Press, 2008), None of the Above: Puerto Ricans in the Global Era (Palgrave 2007), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), and director of Brincando el charco: Portrait of a Puerto Rican (1994) and For the Record: Guam and World War II (2007). Negrón-Muntaner is also a founding board member and past chair of NALIP, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. She currently teaches Latino and Caribbean literatures and cultures at Columbia University.

Relevant links: www.francesnegronmuntaner.net

Susanna Rosenbaum

Latino/a Studies
Email sr2616@columbia.edu
Office 959 Schermerhorn Extension ~ Office Hours: M 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Phone854-4772

Susanna Rosenbaum's research examines Mexican and Central American immigrant domestic workers and their (primarily white) middle-class employers in Los Angeles. Focusing on the experiences of both groups, her work emphasizes the effects of migration not just on immigrant women but also on their native-born employers and on the very meanings of "Americanness." Professor Rosenbaum received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University. Before coming to Columbia, she was a Sawyer Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She is currently revising her manuscript--Domestic Economies (under contract, Duke University Press)--for publication.

Eric Gamalinda

Eric Gamalinda has received several awards for his writing and video work, including the Cultural Center of the Philippines Independent Film and Video Awards [2004], the Asian American Literary Award for Zero Gravity [poems, 2000], the New York Foundation for the Arts [fiction, 1998], and the Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for My Sad Republic [novel, 1998]. Among his recent publications are Amigo Warfare [poems, Cherry Grove Collections, 2007], as well as poems anthologized in Language for a New Century [W.W. Norton] and Structure & Surprise [Teachers & Writers Collaborative], stories in Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World [Penguin], The Thirdest World [factory school], and Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing [Rutgers University Press], and essays in Vestiges of War: The Philippine American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream [New York University Press] and Pinoy Poetics [Meritage Press]. He was publications director of the Asian American Writers Workshop until 1997, where he co-edited the anthology Flippin': Filipinos on America, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawaii in Manoa in 1999, and Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Asia Pacific American Studies Program in 2002-2003. He has been artist-in-residence at Civitella Ranieri [Italy], Association d'Art de La Napoule [France], Chateau de Lavigny Residence pour Ecrivains [Switzerland], Fundacion Valparaiso [Spain], The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio [Italy], Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers [Scotland], and The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ledig House International Writers' Colony [US].

Jacquelyn L. Grey

Professor Grey earned her Ph.D. in Social/Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University in May 2007. Broadly speaking, her research examines and interrogates the notion of “juridical discourse” and the ways in which language – formal and informal – performs in the contemporary policing of Native American tribal rights. Her fieldwork and archival research specifically focuses on the Wampanoag and Narragansett peoples in southern New England and how contemporary tribal governments in the region try to counter and mitigate the repression and suppression effects of punitive discourse and its constraints on tribal sovereignty. Her research also interrogates discourses on ‘blood” and “race” and the ways in which these discourses would undermine tribal authority, citizenship, and nationhood. Professor Grey has taught a number of courses on contemporary issues related to native peoples, including a course entitled, “Imagining Native America,” a dialogue on identity and representation among American Indians, and a course entitled, “Trails of Blood: The Banishment of the Black Cherokee Freedmen,” which examined tribal efforts to disenfranchise the descendents of the former slaves of the Cherokee. In May 2009, Professor Grey will present a paper on “The Commodification of Belonging” at the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association Conference in Minneapolis.

Shinhee Han

Shinhee Han, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. Her clinical specializations include Asian and Asian American mental health, transnational adoptees, LGBT population and college students with learning and study skills problems, identity, depression and anxiety. Previously, Dr. Han worked on the staff of counseling services at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College and Columbia University. She has taught clinical psychology and social work courses at Teachers College at Columbia University, New York University, and Pace University. She has published in psychoanalytic journals and books on Asian American mental health, transnational adoption and Asian American gay men.

Leyla Mei

Leyla Mei is a historian whose work focuses on the intersection of race with American medicine.  Her dissertation analyzes the ways in which cancer researchers in the U.S. understood, measured, and defined race between 1920 and the turn of the twenty-first century, using a comparative framework to examine the relationship between race and carcinogenesis in different forms of the disease.  Her Ph.D. in American history is from the CUNY Graduate Center.

Elizabeth OuYang

Elizabeth R. OuYang, Esq. has been a civil rights attorney for twenty years. Her areas of expertise include voting rights, immigration, race and disability discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations, police brutality and hate crimes. Post 9-11, Ms. OuYang served as a consultant to the New York Immigration Coalition in collaboration with the City of New York Bar Association to conduct pro bono advice clinics throughout New York City to the Arab, Muslim and South Asian communities affected by post-911 government policies. In 2000, Ms. OuYang was appointed by President Clinton to serve as a special assistant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. She worked as a staff attorney for eight years with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and for three years with the Disability Law Center in Boston, MA. She is a mentor with the Brooklyn Legal Outreach Program that serves underpriviledged high school students, an advisory council member to the Chinatown Youth Initiatives, and a board member of the Organization of Chinese Americans-New York Chapter.

Chie Sakakibara

Chie Sakakibara received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 2007. She is a cultural geographer interested in global indigenous studies and human-animal interactions. Prior to her Ph.D., she has completed her degrees in Native American Studies (B.A., 2000) and Art History (M.A., 2002) at OU. Her current research focuses on global warming and its influence on traditional human relationships with the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) in the Alaskan Arctic. During her fieldwork among the Iñupiaq people in Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska (2004-7), she was adopted by several whaling families and experienced their subsistence activities including whaling. Chie’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geography and Regional Science Program and by the Arctic Social Sciences Program. She also works closely with institutions such as the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, and the Arctic Studies Center at Smithsonian Institution. In the past, Chie has given several invited lectures at various institutions: Columbia University, Tokyo University of Science (Japan), Nagoya University (Japan), Nagoya City University (Japan), the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium and Ilisaġvik College (Barrow, Alaska). In addition to her research, she collaborates with Columbia University’s Center for Ethnomusicology for their Iñupiaq music heritage repatriation project led by Dr. Aaron A. Fox. Chie has served on the faculty in the Native American Studies Program at OU, and in the fall 2008 she will teach Native Peoples of North America in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.

John Burstein

Anthropology and Latin American Studies.

Sel Hwahng

Sel J. Hwahng, PhD, is a public health behavioral and social science researcher with expertise in transgender and ethnic minority health and HIV/STD risk behaviors. He received his doctoral degree in 2004 from New York University in Performance Studies (Cultural Studies emphasis). During 2004-06 Dr. Hwahng was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Behavioral Sciences Training in Drug Abuse Research Program (T32 DA007233) at National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI) in New York City. For 2006-08 Dr. Hwahng's research career at NDRI is supported by a two year NIH Research Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research. The supplement augments Dr. Larry Nuttbock's parent project, HIV/STD Infection in an Urban High Risk Population (R01 DA018080) and will allow Dr. Hwahng to expand his scientific expertise in substance use and psychiatric epidemiology among transgendered persons. He is also expanding an ethnographic study he initiated as a Postdoctoral Fellow on male-to-female transgendered communities in New York City and developing a new comparative study of female survivors of mass rape systems during wars in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2006 he also received an award from the National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program for Health Disparities Research, an International Scholarship from the International AIDS Society, and a National Institute on Drug Abuse Directorís Travel Award. Dr. Hwahng is on the Board of Directors of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).

Carmen Lamas

Carmen Lamas works on the transnational ties between Latin America and the U.S. in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth century with an added concentration in Latina/o studies and Caribbean literature. She is currently working on a book titled La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre and Cuban National Identity that maps a cultural and transamerican history of Cuba from the 1830s to the end of the first Cuban Republic in 1933 and examines how different literary discourses regarding race impact varying nationalist projects during this time period. Professor Lamas comes to Columbia from Amherst College, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alvaro Bello Maldonado

Anthropology, subject theories, theories of the culture, social identities. Subjectivity, objectivity and habitus in Bourdieu. Ethnicity and social movements, culture and political community. Methodologies of the social sciences. Public policies, territory concentration, environmental and ethnicity project evaluation.

Frederick Moehn

Music cultures of Latin America and the Caribean, especially Brazil, Cuba and Ecuador; African American music cultures, especially jazz.

Dorothy Wang

American Studies, Ccomparative Literature, Africana Studies, Asian American Studies program, faculty affiliate in Postcolonial and Diaspora Studies.

Paula Lopez Caballero

Anthropology, Mexico and colonialism.