Yvonne Atkinson earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside 2000.  She teaches African American literature and American literature, as well as seminars on Women Writers. Currently she is researching icons of slavery that are present in American popular culture.  She has published articles on Black English oral traditions that are evident in the works of African American authors.  She is also on the Executive Board of the Toni Morrison Society and Chair of the Morrison Society Membership Board.
yatkinso@csusb.edu

Anne Bennett earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1999. She teaches Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, and her regional expertise is in the Middle East. Her ongoing research is based mostly in Syria, but includes transnational popular culture and film studies.
Department of Anthropology.
abennett@csusb.edu; SB302F, 537-5520

James Fenelon (Lakota/Dakota) earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, with graduate degrees from Harvard and the School for International Training. He has published many articles and book chapters on indigenous struggles, racial/ethnic issues, and American Indian policies, including a book on the Lakota. James is working on two co-authored books, Indigenous Peoples and Globalization and Indian, Black and Irish: Race and Racism in the Americas, which reflect his scholarly interests. He believes faculty and students should strive for social justice in their pursuit of knowledge.
Associate Professor, Sociology
jfenelon@csusb.edu; 909-537-7291

Mary Fong earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Washington in 1994.  She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and research in intercultural communication, qualitative research methods, ethnic identity, and instructional communication.  She also trains and supervises graduate teaching assistants in the Communication Studies Department.  She co-edited a textbook, Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity in 2004. Recently, she was presented a Diversity Award from CSUSB's University Diversity Committee. Mary Fong is the Ethnic Studies Program Coordinator.
mfong@csusb.edu;  University Hall 201.16 909-537-5891.

Ellen Gil-Gomez earned her Ph.D. in English from Washington State University in 1995. She teaches Chicano/a Literature and Latino/a Literature. Her book, Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities, was published by Garland Press in 2001.
Her research has led her to focus on Ethnic, Gender and Queer theories, and how they interrelate within a range of texts such as: literature, film and web-based writing.  Currently, she is working on a project that analyzes how Chicano/a and Latino/a collectives have (re)imagined themselves as "cyber ethnic communities" via cultural and business websites. Her second book provides an analysis of how Latina lesbian writers enter into the difficult discourses of both Queer Theory and Latino/a cultural nationalism in an attempt to control how these sites affect their ability to define themselves.
egil@csusb.edu

Angela Louque earned her Ed.D. from Pepperdine University in Institutional Management with a concentration in Educational Administration.  She is a former math teacher and school administrator.  She currently serves as the Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Curriculum.  Additionally, she is the co-author of the book Exposing the 'Culture of Arrogance' in the Academy: A Blueprint for Increasing Black Faculty Satisfaction in Higher Education. She is Professor and Department Chair in Educational Leadership and Curriculum
alouque@csusb.edu; (909) 537-7621

Marcia Marx earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Riverside in 1993. She teaches for the programs of Ethnic and Women's Studies, as well as the Department of Sociology.  Her publications have included research on the structural changes within large-scale bureaucracies that have resulted in increased opportunities for women's mobility in those settings. She has also published research that examines pedagogical concerns when teaching about racism and homophobia. She recently co-authored with Patricia Little the article, "Teaching about Heterosexism and Creating an Empathic Experience of Homophobia," published in Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses.
mmarx@csusb.edu

Kathy Nadeau earned her Ph. D. in Anthropology at Arizona State University in 1995.  Her teaching and research interests include Asian and Asian American studies, especially Filipino American studies, cross-cultural study of sex and gender, and the anthropology of human development.  Her publications include Liberation Theology in the Philippines: Faith in a Revolution, Praeger Press (2001), "Cultural Resources for Theologies of Liberation: Local Responses to Global Challenges" Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, (2002), "Peasant Resistance and Religious Protest in Early Philippine Society: Turning Friars Against the Grain" Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion, (2002), and "Prostitution and Slavery in Asia: Does the Market Set the Captives Free?" in Critical Asian Studies. She observes in her work that "Leaders are incidental to the movement."
knadeau@csusb.edu

Timothy Pytell earned his Ph.D. in modern European History from New York University in 1999.  He teaches course on modern Europe, including intellectual history and the Holocaust.  His research centers on the Holocaust and the history of psychology.
tpytell@csusb.edu

Luz Elena Ramirez earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. She teaches Caribbean Literature and Latino
Literature, as well as seminars on the literature of the British Empire. Her fieldwork includes travel to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil, as well as Spain.  Presently, she has two research projects underway. She is volume
editor of the Hispanic American Literature Volume of  The Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Literature (Facts on File). In addition, she is completing
her book manuscript, Empire and Americanism: British Representations of Latin America.
ramirez@csusb.edu

David N. Yaghoubian received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. He teaches courses in Middle Eastern and Islamic history. Yaghoubian is co-editor of Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (University of California Press, forthcoming 2005), and several articles in the area of modern Middle Eastern history. He is currently completing a book length manuscript, Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran which is based upon his  dissertation.
dny@csusb.edu