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Statement

Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science and Department Head, Ethnic Studies.

Faculty Affiliate in Department of Planning, Public Policy, and Management and Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Education:
  • BA, History, Wesleyan University, 1993;
  • PhD, American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2007
Select Awards:
  • James A Rawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians for the best book on the history of U.S. race relations for Racial Propositions, 2011
  • Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize of the American Studies Association for Racial Propositions, 2011
  • Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities Oliver Cox Book Award for Racial Propositions, 2011
  • UO Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Resident Scholar, 2008-2009
  • Best Dissertation Prize of the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, 2008
  • 2008 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for Best Dissertation on the 20th Century US West by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, 2008
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, Office of Multicultural Academic Support (OMAS), University of Oregon, 2007-2008.
  • Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize of the American Studies Association, 2007