Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity at Stanford


Faculty Profiles	As diverse as the course offerings in the Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity major itself, CSRE professors come from a wide range of deparments, and have expertise in a variety of fields. Click on a professor's name or picture or name to learn more about their research interests and publications.

		Albert Camarillo Dept: History Office: 200-123 [email protected]	As a Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service and Professor of American History, Camarillo's research interests include Mexican American history, comparative race and ethnicity in urban history, and service learning.
		Clay Carson Dept: History Office: Cypress Hall [email protected]	Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the movements King inspired. Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975, Dr. Carson has taught at Stanford University, where he is now professor of history and founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute.
		Gordon Chang Dept: History Office: 200-222 [email protected]	Chang is interested in foreign relations and the historical connections between race and ethnicity in America. He was one of the founding members of the Asian American Studies Program at Stanford and is currently its director.
		Paulla Ebron Dept: Anthropology [email protected]	Ebron is the author of Performing Africa, a work based on her research in The Gambia that traces the significance of West African praise-singers in transnational encounters.
		Michele Elam Dept: English Office: 460-319 [email protected]	Michele Elam, Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor, is an Associate Professor in English and Director of the Program in African & African American Studies. She is currently working on a book on post-race and post-apartheid performance in the U.S. and South Africa with her husband, Professor Harry J. Elam, Jr.
		Tomás Jiménez Dept: Sociology Office: Bldg. 120-160 [email protected]	Jiménez's research interests include immigration and assimilation, race and ethnicity, social inequality, particularly as they pertain to Mexican Americans.
		Teresa LaFromboise Dept: Education [email protected]	Dr. LaFromboise is currently studying culturally tailored cognitive behavioral interventions as an area of prevention for offsetting underlying factors of vulnerability that contribute to high-risk behavior among youth from diverse cultures.
		Hazel Markus Dept: Psychology Office: Bldg. 420-256 [email protected]	Markus has research interests that focus on the sociocultural shaping of mind and self. Specifically, her work is concerned with how gender, ethnicity, religion, social class, cohort, and region or country of national origin may influence thought and feeling, particularly self-relevant thought and feeling.
		Amado Padilla Dept: Education Office: CERAS 203 [email protected]	Padilla specializes in the psychological development of immigrant children and adolescents, particularly acculturation, educational resilience, and bilingual language acquisition.
		David Palumbo-Liu Director of AAS Dept: Comparative Literature Office: 260-229 palumbo-liu@	Palumbo-Liu's fields of interest include social and cultural criticism, literary theory and criticism, East Asian and Asia Pacific American studies. Palumbo-Liu was recruited to Stanford to help establish Asian American Studies, and was one of the founding faculty members of CSRE.
		Rob Reich Dept: Political Science Office: Encina Hall [email protected]	Reich's main interests are in contemporary liberal political theory, and he is working on two main projects: the first on the ideals of equality and adequacy as applied to education policy and reform and the second about topics in ethics, public policy, and philanthropy.
		Michael J. Rosenfeld Dept: Sociology Office: Bldg. 120 michael.rosenfeld@	Rosenfeld studies race, ethnicity, immigration, and family structure, especially family structure changes over time. His current research agenda focuses on alternative family forms of racial intermarriage and same sex cohabitation in the U.S., and on the reasons for rising incidence of these alternative family forms.
		José David Saldívar Director of CSRE Dept: Comparative Literature Office: Bldg. 260-206 [email protected]	Saldívar is a scholar of late postcontemporary culture, especially the minoritized literatures, and of border narratives and poetics.
		Ramón Saldívar Dept: English Office: Bldg. 460-322 [email protected]	Saldívar's scholarly interests include 20th Century American, British, and postcolonial cultural history and theory. modernity and postmodernity, theory of the novel, and U.S. Latino writings.
		Gary Segura Director of CHS Dept: Political Science Office: EncinaW 314 [email protected]	Segura studies public opinion, voting, and representation. His work has focused on issues as diverse as Latino political incorporation, immigration, war deaths and public support, and the behavioral effects of divided government.
		Matthew Snipp Dept: Sociology [email protected]	Snipp�s research investigates how factors such as residence, education, and family composition are affect people�s racial self-identification, particularly among persons of American Indian and multiracial backgrounds.
		James Steyer Lecturer Email	Steyer has spent more than 20 years as one of the most respected experts and entrepreneurs on issues related to children's policy and media in the United States. As CEO of Common Sense Media, he is responsible for the overall leadership of Common Sense Media, the nation's leading nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving the media lives of kids and families.
		Jeanne L. Tsai Dept: Psychology Office: 420-171 jeanne.tsai@	Tsai's research examines how cultural ideas and practices shape the emotions that people actually feel, emotions that people want to feel, and the implications these processes have for mental health and well-being across the life span.
		Sylvia Yanagisako Dept: Anthropology [email protected]	Yanagisako is currently conducting an ethnographic study of transnational capitalism among Italian and Chinese textile and garment manufacturers in the Shanghai area of China and Italy. She was the Chair of CASA from 1998-2001.
		Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano Dept: Iberian and Latin American Cultures Office: Bldg. 260-227 [email protected]	Yarbro-Bejarano's interests include Chicana/o cultural studies with an emphasis on gender and queer theory, race and nation, and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.


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