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Breast cancer screening, family and minority women health issues
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Jafari Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-0054
E-mail: jsallen@mail.utexas.edu
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Gender and sexuality in African diasporas; critical social theory; black feminisms; critical cultural studies; Cuba and the Caribbean; TBLGQ culture and political organizing
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Charles Anderson, B.A. in Dance, Cornell University; M.F.A. in Choreography, Temple University
Associate Professor of African American and African Diasporic Dance with a courtesy appointment in the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Department of Theatre and Dance
College of Fine Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-3467
E-mail: charles.o.anderson@austin.utexas.edu
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African Diaspora and African American (Black) vernacular and concert dance history, Black dance aesthetics, Afrocentric dance pedagogy, choreography and dance composition, contemporary dance, Afrofuturism, critical race theory in dance
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My research interests include attitude development and expression in the following areas: prejudice and discrimination, ethnic and racial identity (with a focus on Arabs and African Americans), acculturation, immigration, and attitudes toward affirmative action beneficiaries. In addition, I also study the psychological antecedents of minority standardized test performance as well as issues related to culturally relevant research methodology. More recently, I have also been working on a project assessing the relationship between racial identity and body image for African American women.
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My research examines the processes by which young people understand their cultural selves and how this meaning making influences relationships, academic achievement, well-being and a sense of social responsibility. I have a strong belief that research should provide the theoretical framework and empirical evidence to guide practice and intervention. Using an action-research approach, I explore resiliency and cultural competence in the context of 1) the processes of racial socialization, 2) community vs. individual investment in the Black community, 3) risk and protective factors in coping with racism and 4) class and upward mobility.
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African American students; teacher knowledge and beliefs; curriculum development and theory; underserved student populations; sociocultural knowledge; multicultural studies
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Mounira Charrad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Departments of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-6311; 512-471-1122
E-mail: charrad@austin.utexas.edu
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Gender; Womens Rights; Islam and Family Law; States and Citizenship; Middle East; North Africa; political sociology; development; and comparative historical methodology
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Racial and ethnic identity development; factors that impact academic
achievement of African American students; academic self-concept;
academic motivation; multicultural psychology and issues of race, ethnicity and culture; Afrocentric/African-centered psychology; impact of religiosity and spirituality on various psychological outcomes; multicultural counseling
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Kerry Cook, Ph.D. North Carolina State University
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 232 7931
E-mail: kc@jsg.utexas.edu
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Climate dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, global climate change, paleoclimate, climate and weather of Africa and South America, climate system modeling, global warming
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Archaeology; anthropology; African history; African cultures; African languages; Kalahari desert; Congo prehistory; southern African socieites; African Iron Age and Neolithic studies; Great Zimbabwe and its development
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International affairs; national security/ defense policy; human resources policy (especially military personnel); civil rights/ race relations; policy making (especially the executive branch); federal education policy; African politics, business
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Ethnomusicology; African culture
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American ethnic and race relations; educational policy for ethnic minorities; ethnographic research; critical theory
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Latinos/Hispanics in the 20th-Century U.S.; History of Mexican Americans in the Southwest; History of Mexican Immigration; Comparative Race Relations in the 20th-Century U.S.; Mexican American and African American Civil Rights; Transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region; U.S.-Mexico Relations since Word War II; Race, Citizenship and National Identity in Mexico and the U.S.
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Constitutional history, legal history, social and economic rights in courts, social movements of Africa, Texas low-income housing
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Kevin Foster, PhD
Assistant Professor
Curriculum and Instruction: Cultural Studies in Education
College of Education
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-8586
E-mail: kmfoster@mail.utexas.edu
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African American student achievement; intersection of sports and academics; impact of race and gender on student academic outcomes; cultural theory in education
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Television; docudramas, based-on-a-true-story television, historical films; reality TV; race and the media; race and national identity; whiteness; gender and TV; cable TV; the history of TV; and the TV industry.
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Civil Rights Movement; Social Movements; Politics of race and gender; American South
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Cuba and African-Americans; African Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean; U.S. presence in Latin America; Afro-Diasporic Encounters between Cubans and U.S. Americans of African descent in the twentieth century; racialization in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, hemispheric cultural history, transnational history
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Multicultural counseling; racial identity constructs; educational struggles of Latino subgroups
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Race and culture in physical activity and sport; identity development patterns of African Americans
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U.S. Foreign Policy
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Political economy; comparative politics; Middle East and North Africa - esp. Algeria Egypt Morocco Tunisia; politics of international oil; Islamic financial systems; commercial banking systems in the MENA; business, economics & labor.
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Salt tectonics thin-skinned deformation and related petroleum traps; structural analysis and seismic interpretation of sedimentary tectonics; experimental modeling; environment & earth science; oil and gas.
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Evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid evolution and hominid origins, paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging
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African American politics; faith and religion; churches and political activism; race, elections and political behavior.
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United States cultural and intellectual history, comparative race and ethnicity, African-American history, ethnomusicology, corporate and cultural globalization, folk culture, the history of anthropology and folkloric studies, tourism, recording technology, intellectual property, labor and business history.
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Modern African American History; black urban history; intersection of race, sport, and hip-hop
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African American politics; race; political communication; presidential election; voter behavior.
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Newspaper and television journalism, including audience, content and diversity in coverage, and leadership and management in the industry; the relationship African-Americans, women and youth have with the news; ethics in research methodologies in the media; media framing; polling, specifically the validity and interpretation of election polls; news coverage of presidential elections; women and young voters.
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Sociology of Religion; Family; Adolescence; Sexuality; HIV/AIDS in Africa; Human Motivation
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Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Arizona
Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 232-7051
E-mail: tshanahan@jsg.utexas.edu
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Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleolimnology, ancient climate, climate change, sedimentary geology and geochemistry, organic geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, compound-specific stable isotope analysis
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Social and cultural history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America; early African American history.
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African American and African Diaspora Studies; Nineteenth Century US Cultural History; Law and Literature; Slavery and Post-Emancipation Cultures; Cultural Memory
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African American history; Antebellum Slavery; Black Business History and Political Economy; Black Intellectual history; African American Women''''''''s history; Oprah Winfrey.
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Sociolinguistics; language and culture in the Arab world; language and education in the U.S.; literacy; African American language and culture; language and social change in North Africa; English-Only rules in the workplace
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