Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University

Faculty News

Claudio Lomnitz

Death and the Idea of Mexico (Zone Books, 2005)
"Narating the Neoliberal Movement: History, Journalism, Historicity" Public Culture 20.1 (2008).
"El odio a los científicos como problema de interpretación histórica." Intelectuales e ideas en América Latina. Eds. Carlos Altamirano and Jorge Myers. Buenos Aires: Katz Editores, 2008.
"Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: The Birth of Dependency in Late Porfirian Mexico." Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology. Eds. Wilford and Eric Taggliatozzo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming.
"Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution." Representations, forthcoming.

Gary Y. Okihiro

Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States (University of California Press, 2008)

Claudio Lomnitz

"Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: Mexico c. 1900" at Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
"Mexico's First Lynching" at Free University, Berlin
"Anti-Semitism and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution" at Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
"Death and the Origin of Mexican Popular Culture" at University of Toronto
"Crime, Moral Panic, Dependency: On Mexico's First Lynching" at Conference in honor of Benedict Anderson, University of Chicago
"9 Theses on Andrés Molina Enriquez" at History Department, University of Chicago
"Border Traffic and Unmarked Graves" at Border Crossing Conference, University of Arizona
"Intercultural Justice and the Ideology of the Mexican Revolution" at Intercultural Rights Conference, Zaragoza, Spain

Frances Negron-Muntaner

“None of the Above,” Seminar, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras (May 1)
“Looking Good,”discussion of book-in-progress and None of the Above book presentation, New York University (April 17 and 18)
Panel organizer and moderator, “The Inner Workings of ‘Ugly Betty,” National Association of Latino Independent Producers Annual Conference, Newport, California (March 8)
Moderator, “The State of Latino Media” Miami International Film Festival (March 5)

Pablo Piccato

“What can be more important than honor? Crimes and reputations in the Mexican public sphere,” at Convergencias, Yale University, February 24.
“Reflexiones finales” at the IV Coloquio de Historia de Mujeres y de Género en México, Zamora, Michoacán, 14-16 March
Coordination of the symposium, “New Research in Latin American Political History: The Nineteenth Century,” to be held at Columbia University on May 4 and 5.

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Frances Negron-Muntaner has won a grant from the Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere program (NKDPS) of the Social Science Research Council for her project entitled, "Assessing for Change: A Study on Latino Media Advocacy." Negron-Muntaner will lead the project as a collaboration between CSER and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). Negron-Muntaner is one of seven recipients of $30,000 in media and communications grants for 2008/9. For more information click here or contact Professor Negron-Muntaner.
United Nations Names CSER Professor Negrón-Muntaner Global Expert
The United Nations' Rapid Response Media Mechanism (RRMM) project has named filmmaker, scholar, and Columbia professor Frances Negrón-Muntaner a Global Expert.
For more information about the RRMM project can be found here.

Gary Okihiro

Gary Y. Okihiro recently returned from a residency program in Okinawa and Japan awarded by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies. Okihiro lectured at the following universities in Japan--International Christian University, Doshisha University, Japan Women's University, and Rikkyo University; and I served a two-week residency at the University of the Ryukyus.