Dr. Ramón Chacón Dr. Chacón has been researching the life of Pedro Infante—an icon from the Golden Age of Cinema in México who died at the peak of his career. On March 28, 2004, Dr. Chacón will present his research on Infante at the annual meeting of the National Association for Chicanas/os Studies (NACCS) in Albuquerque, New México. Recently, Dr. Chacón has been invited to be a guest speaker at several local schools. For example, he has been to Salinas, Downtown College Prep, and various Career Days. Dr. Chacón has received an enormous amount of satisfaction from mentoring these students—they remind him of where he came from. He has also been in constant communication with Santa Clara University alumni .
Dr. Stephen Fugita
Dr. Fugita has been an important contributor to the Ethnic Studies Program. He has taught several Ethnic Studies courses such as ES 140: Japanese Americans and the Concentration Camps. Recently, he has been working with Dr. Marilyn Fernandez, Chair of the Anthropology/Sociology Program on “Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their WWII Incarceration.” After much dedication and hardwork “Altered Lives, Enduring Community: Japanese Americans Remember Their WWII Incarceration” will be published this spring by the University of Washington Press.
Dr. Robin Hayes
Robin J. Hayes is a scholar and filmmaker who joined the Santa Clara University faculty as Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science in 2007. She was the first person to earn a combined doctorate from Yale University in African American Studies and Political Science. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Metropolitan Studies at New York University with honors, she supervised a legal clinic for homeless families at the Urban Justice Center and facilitated human rights delegations and aid shipments to Cuba and Chiapas, Mexico as a national coordinator of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). Prof. Hayes also produced and directed Beautiful Me(s): Finding our Revolutionary Selves in Black Cuba, a documentary film about a diverse group of underdog students who journey from the ivy league to the rebel state of Cuba (www.beautifulmes.com). She has published several essays and articles about the politics of the African diaspora and social movements in global perspective and given lectures about her scholarship at the University of Chicago, Indiana University, the New School for Social Research and Middlebury College among others. In addition, she has held residential fellowships at Williams College and Northwestern University and received support for her work from the Ford Foundation. Currently, Prof. Hayes is finishing a book manuscript, African Liberation, Black Power and a Diasporic Underground, and directing a documentary about black social movements based on interviews with African American and African activists.
Dr. James Lai
In June 2003, John Hopkins University Press published Dr. Lai’s book review: “Book Review of Contemporary Asian American Communities” (Linda Trinh Vo and Rick Bonus, eds.) was published by John Hopkins Press. He presented his paper “The Participation Dynamics of Asian Pacific Americans in Local Politics” at the 2003 Association for Asian American Studies Conference and recently he presented “Asian Americans and American Politics: A Unique Experience” at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Lai is currently working on a paper tentatively titled “Asian American elected Officials and California Politics.” The article will examine how Asian Americans have achieved entryway into California local politics. Dr. Lai is actively involved with the SCU community and is Chair of the Diversity Dialogue Council (DDC). He is also Chair of the Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC), an officially recognized status group of the American Political Science Association, the international organization of political scientists. |
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