PROJECT ORGANIZERS

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s Studies at Syracuse University. Her books include Feminist Epistemologies, co-edited with Elizabeth Potter (Routledge, 1993), Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory of Knowledge (Cornell, 1996), Epistemology: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998), and Thinking From the Underside of History, co-edited with Eduardo Mendieta (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming). Her most recent book, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, is forthcoming from Oxford Press. lsalcoff@syr.edu

Michael R. Hames-Garcia is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he teaches courses in literary theory, Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures, and American literature. He is co-editor (with Paula Moya) of Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (University of California Press, 2000) and the author of articles on Chicana/o literature and queer theory. He is currently completing a book manuscript, Justice and the Practice of Freedom: Race, Law, and Prison Movements in the U.S. mhamesg@binghamton.edu

Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University. He teaches courses in critical theory, twentieth-century literature, and colonial and postcolonial studies. He is the author of Literary Theory and the Claims of History, and is currently working on two books: Are Values Always Political? and Multicultural Values: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Diversity. His essay “Can Our Values Be Objective? On Ethics, Aesthetics, and Progressive Politics,” forthcoming in New Literary History in December 2001, defends a realist approach to ethical and aesthetic values in the context of current debates within the Left about these issues. For an advance copy, please contact the author at spm5@cornell.edu.

Paula M. L. Moya is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches courses in American literature, Latina/o and Chicana/o literature, and minority and feminist theoretical perspectives. Recent publications include the co-edited anthology (with Michael Hames-García) Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (UC Press), and an essay entitled “Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory” in the Winter 2001 issue of Signs. Her book, Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles is forthcoming from the University of California Press in Spring 2002. pmoya@leland.stanford.edu

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STANFORD CONFERENCE
October 19-20, 2001

MAIN SPEAKERS

Johnnella E. Butler is Professor of American Ethnic Studies, Adjunct Professor of English and Women Studies, as well as Associate Dean and Associate Vice Provost in the Graduate School at the University of Washington. Her most recent works include “African American Studies and the ‘Warring Ideals’” in Dispatches from the Ebony Tower: Intellectuals Confront the African American Experience (Columbia University Press, 2000); “Democracy, Diversity, and Civic Engagement” in Academe (July-August, 2000); and “Mumbo Jumbo, Theory, and the Aesthetics of wholeness” in Aesthetics in the Multicultural Age (Oxford, forthcoming 2001). Her edited volume, Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press in August 2001. jebutler@u.washington.edu

Juan Flores is Professor of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CUNY) and of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter, and is currently Director of Hunter’s Mellon Minority Fellowship Program. He is the author of Poetry in East Germany (Choice magazine award), The Insular Vision (winner Casa de las Americas award), Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, and From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. He also is the translator of Memoirs of Bernardo Vega and of Cortijo’s Wake by Edgardo Rodriguez Juli, and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Latin American Culture. jflores@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu

Sandra Harding is the author or editor of ten books, including The Science Question in Feminism, Feminism and Methodology, The Racial Economy of Science and Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. She is a philosopher, and teaches at UCLA where she also co-edits Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She has consulted for several U.N. organizations including the Pan American Health Organization, UNESCO, UNIFEM, and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development. sharding@gseis.ucla.edu

Dominick LaCapra is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, through which he directs the School of Criticism and Theory. He is the author of eleven books, the most recent of which are History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies and Writing History, Writing Trauma. dcl3@cornell.edu

Maria Lugones is Professor at Binghamton University in the Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture Program and the Comparative Literature Department. She is a theorist, activist and popular educator. She is one of the founders of the Escuela Popular Norteña, a center for popular education devoted to grassroots political education that keeps the interconnection of oppressions in focus. Her writings include “Purity, Impurity, and Separation,” “The Discontinuous Passing of the Cachapera-Tortillera from the Barrio to the Bar to the Movement,” “Playful ‘World’-Travel and Loving Perception.” Her forthcoming book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes, theorizes from within grassroots struggle for coalition against interconnected oppressions. mlugones@binghamton.edu

David Palumbo-Liu is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford. His research has focussed on Asian Pacific American studies, cultural studies, ethnic and race studies, social theory, and literary studies. Two of his recent book publications are Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (1999) and an edited volume, Streams of Cultural Capital: Transnational Cultural Studies (1997). palumbo-liu@stanford.edu

Renato Rosaldo is a Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the author of Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History in 1980 and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis in 1989. His co-edited work, The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History appeared in 1982 and Anthropology/Creativity appeared in 1993. He has been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights, published in 1997. He has served as President of the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology. renatoi@stanford.edu

José David Saldívar is the Class of 1942 Professor of Ethnic Studies and English, and the Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research focus on the areas of literary and cultural studies, the history of the ethnic novel, inter-American subaltern studies, and Chicano/a Studies. He is the author of The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History (Duke University Press,1991), and Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (University of California Press,1997). He edited The Rolando Hinojosa Reader (Arte Publico Press, 1985) and co-edited Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology (Duke University Press,1991). Presently, he is working on a book on book on subaltern studies and the coloniality of power from Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy. saldivar@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Tommie Shelby is Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Social Studies at Harvard University, where he teaches courses in black political thought, Marxism, social and political philosophy, and social theory. He has written articles on racism, exploitation, and ideology. His current research, which he hopes will culminate in a book, focuses on the normative foundations of black political solidarity. tshelby@fas.harvard.edu

Claude Steele is Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences and has served as the past chair of the Psychology Department at Stanford University. He is President-Elect of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and has served as President of the Western Psychological Association, as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society, and on the editorial boards of numerous journals and study sections at both the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. His research interests include an examination of how group stereotypes can influence intellectual performance and academic identities. steele@psych.stanford.edu

Craig Womack (Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee) is a Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Southern Alberta. He is the author of Drowning in Fire, a novel, and Red on Red, a literary history of the Muskogee Creek Nation. womacs@uleth.ca

Iris Marion Young is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her work has dealt with issues of the phenomenology of female body experience, theories of justice and group difference, normative analysis of public policy, feminist social theory, and democratic theory. She is the author of four books, the most recent of which is Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford University Press). She has begun a project about concepts of collective responsibility and social justice in the context of global as well as local and regional inequalities. iyoung@uchicago.edu

STANFORD RESPONDENTS

Biodun Jeyifo is Professor of English at Cornell University. His scholarly interests include African and Caribbean Anglophone literatures, theatrical history and dramatic literature, Marxist literary and cultural theory, and colonial and postcolonial studies. bj23@cornell.edu

Dana Luciano is Assistant Professor of English at Hamilton College, where she teaches nineteenth-century American literature and LGBT studies. She has published on erotophobia as Gothic pedagogy in early American literature and has essays forthcoming on invalidism and new configurations of kinship in Henry James and on melancholia as critical nationality in Pauline Hopkins. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled Mourning in America: Nationality and Loss in the Nineteenth Century. dluciano@hamilton.edu

Chandra Talpade Mohanty is Professor of Women’s Studies at Hamilton College and Core Faculty at the Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati. She co-edited Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991), and Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997). Her most recent book, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonization, Solidarity and Anti-Capitalist Struggles, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She has worked with three grassroots community organizations, Grassroots Leadership of North Carolina, Center for Immigrant Families in New York City, and Awareness, Orissa, India. She is the editor of two book series, “Gender, Culture and Global Politics” (Garland Publishing) and “Comparative Feminist Studies” (St. Martins Press). ctm3@cornell.edu

Margo Okazawa-Rey is Professor of Social Work at San Francisco State University. She conducts ethnographic and participatory research and is particularly interested in the areas of cross-cultural social work practice, race relations, relations between and among people of color, and work with “special populations.” She has co-edited two books, Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives and Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development. mor@sfsu.edu

STANFORD PANEL CHAIRS

Al Camarillo is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University. He has published six books and over a dozen articles dealing with the experiences of Mexican Americans and other racial and immigrant groups in American cities. His first book Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios is in its sixth printing and a new edition was issued in 1996. Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans is currently in its fourth printing. His most recent book, Not White, Not Black: Mexicans and Racial/Ethnic Borderlands in American Cities, compares the history of various major ethnic and racial minority groups in American cities and is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2002. camar@leland.stanford.edu

Estelle Freedman is Professor of History and a founder of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University. Her teaching and research focus on U.S. women’s history, comparative women’s history, the history of sexuality, and the role of women in movements for social reform, including feminism and women’s prison reform. She was the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education. She is the author of Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1996), and the co-author (with John D’Emilio) of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1988; rev. ed. University of Chicago Press, 1997). Her most recent book, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women is forthcoming from Ballantine Books in 2002. ebf@leland.stanford.edu

Arnold Rampersad is the Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University. He is the author of The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. DuBois (1976), The Life of Langston Hughes (2 vols., 1986, 1988), Days of Grace: A Memoir (1993) co-authored with Arthur Ashe, and Jackie Robinson: A Biography (1997). In addition, he has edited several volumes featuring the work of Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, and is the co-editor of the Race and American Culture book series published by Oxford University Press. From 1991 to 1996, he held a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. He is currently at work on a biography of Ralph Ellison. rampersad@stanford.edu

Lisa Yun is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her work focuses on Asian diasporas of the Caribbean and the politics of Black-Asian linkages, with her most recent research focusing on the Chinese of Cuba. Her articles appear in publications such as SOULS: Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Black Issues Book Review, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, MELUS, among others. She is also a poet who received a NYFA Fellowship for her collection Havana Suite and Other Poems. Her creative work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. lisayun@binghamton.edu

STANFORD CONFERENCE COORDINATOR

Elizabeth (Beth) Castle recently completed her Ph.D. in history on Native and African American women’s activism at the University of Cambridge. In 1997-1998 she worked as a policy associate for President Clinton’s Initiative on Race at the White House. At present, she is completing a book entitled Women Were the Backbone and Men Were the Jawbone: Native American Women’s Activism in the Red Power Movement. This coming year she will be teaching twentieth century women’s and U.S. history as an adjunct lecturer at Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, and applying for tenure-track positions in history and women’s studies. eacastle@mindspring.com

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CORNELL CONFERENCE
November 16-17, 2001

PARTICIPANTS (partial list)

Lewis Gordon
Professor of Africana Studies, Religious Studies, and Modern Culture and Media
Brown University
lewis_gordon@brown.edu

Ramón Saldívar
Department of English
Stanford University
saldivar@leland.stanford.edu

Rosaura Sanchez
Professor of Literature
University of California, San Diego
rasanchez@ucsd.edu

John Kuo-Wei (Jack) Tchen
Asian/Pacific/American Studies
New York University
jack.tchen@nyu.edu

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BINGHAMTON SYMPOSIA
MAY 5, 2001

José David Saldívar
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, Berkeley
(see bio above)

Johnnella Butler
American Ethnic Studies
University of Washington
(see bio above)

Michael Hames-García
Department of English
Binghamton University
(see bio above)

Paula Moya
Department of English
Stanford University
(see bio above)

JULY 20, 2001

Dominick LaCapra
Society for the Humanities
Cornell University
(see bio above)

Linda Martín Alcoff
Department of Philosophy
Syracuse University
(see bio above)

SEPTEMBER 7, 2001

Juan Flores
Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies
Hunter College
(see bio above)

John Kuo Wei (Jack) Tchen is a historian and cultural activist who for 25 years has been helping to give voice to individuals and communities of the past and the present who have been absent from our public history. He is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University (1996) where he is an associate professor of history and individualized study. He is co-founder of the New York Chinatown History Project (1980), now called the Museum of Chinese in the Americas. In 1991, he was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (National Humanities Medal) for his work in the public humanities. His most recent and award winning book is New York before Chinatown: Orientalism, and Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 (1999). He has served on the Smithsonian Council of the Smithsonian Museum and is a trustee of the New-York Historical Society and an editor of the Journal of American History. jack.tchen@nyu.edu

Paula Moya
Department of English
Stanford University
(see bio above)

Satya Mohanty
Department of English
Cornell University
(see bio above)

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