Newswise — The following professors at the University of Oregon (Eugene, OR) are experts on topics related to civil liberties and social justice:
Civil Disobedience:
Daniel Pope, assistant professor, history
Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~history/faculty/pope.html
Pope's expertise includes movements of protest and dissent in late 19th and 20th century America. The editor of "American Radicalism" (2001), Pope was active in the Vietnam-era peace movement and remains a strong peace advocate and scholar today. He recently took part in several student- and faculty-organized events concerning U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq. At a public forum on Jan. 21 this year, he presented on "Historical Perspectives on Student Peace Activism."
Carol T. Silverman, professor, anthropology
Web: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~anthro/faculty/silverman.html
Silverman is a cultural anthropologist and folklorist who has been involved with Balkan music and culture for more than 20 years as a researcher, teacher, activist and performer. Focusing on Bulgaria and Macedonia, she has investigated the relationships among politics, ethnicity, ritual and gender. She teaches courses on the Balkans, Jewish folklore, postmodernism, ethnography, feminism and performative (speech and language) theories of culture.
Freedom of Speech and other Constitutional Issues:
Garrett Epps, professor, law
Web: http://www.law.uoregon.edu/faculty/gepps/
Epps has published numerous books, scholarly articles and articles for general audiences in the field of constitutional law and civil rights. He will convene a symposium (Jan. 25, 2008) on "Immigration and Citizenship." His most recent book is "Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America." He has written for The New York Times and the New Republic.
Immigration:
Michael Aguilera, assistant professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/aguilera.php
Aguilera is an expert on immigration, labor markets, social inequality, race, ethnicity and economic sociology. He has done research on international migration. He can talk about the legalization of undocumented workers and the economic impact of undocumented workers and immigrants.
Lynn Fujiwara, assistant professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~wgs/
Fujiwara's interests focus on feminist theory with an emphasis on Third World and critical race feminism, women of color, immigration, citizenship, welfare, labor and family. Recent publications include "Immigrant Rights Are Human Rights: The Reframing of Immigrant Entitlement and Welfare," Social Problems (2005).
Susan Hardwick, professor, geography
Web: http://geography.uoregon.edu/hardwick/index.html
Hardwick, a human geographer, is interested in issues related to North American migration, cultural landscapes, and race, ethnicity and place (especially urban places). She is involved in a project on transnational identities, and the migration and settlement experiences of U.S.-born immigrants in Canada. She recently completed a long-term National Science Foundation- and Canadian Embassy-funded project in collaboration with James Meacham, director of the UO InfoGraphics Lab, on refugees from the former Soviet Union, Southeast Asia and Africa who now live in the Pacific Northwest.
Jiannbin Shiao, associate director, Ethnic Studies Program; associate professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/shiao.php
Shiao is an expert on racial/ethnic identity of transracial adoptees and on race/ethnicity and genetics. His work focuses on the post-civil rights era and, in particular, on the quantity and quality of diversity.
Lynn Stephen, professor, anthropology
Web: http://als.uoregon.edu/programs/mcnair/symposium/2003/mentors/lstephen.html
Stephen, a cultural anthropologist, focuses on immigration and Mexican immigrant workers, as well as gender, sexual and ethnic identities, social movements, political power, autonomy, nationalism and globalization. She also explores indigenous and agrarian movements in Latin America and the United States. She currently is working on two new projects: how Zapotec women in Oaxaca, Mexico, are organizing in weaver cooperatives to circumvent local merchant control and market their products globally; and an examination of the history and experiences of Mexican immigrant farm workers and their organizing efforts in Oregon.
Mia Tuan, director, Center on Diversity and Communty; associate professor, teacher education
Web: http://education.uoregon.edu/faculty.htm?id=307
Tuan's research focuses on racial and ethnic identity development, Asian transracial adoption and multicultural organizational development. She has published work in areas of Asian identity development, Asian transracial adoption, immigrant adaptation, and racial attitudes/race relations.
Pakistan, South Asia, Muslim societies, women in the Muslim world:
Anita Weiss, professor international studies
Web: http://www.uoregon.edu/~aweiss/web/anita_weiss.htm
Weiss is an expert on South Asia and comparative Muslim societies, particularly Pakistan. She returned Nov. 26 from a three-week stay in Pakistan and can comment on the political situation there. She is a widely recognized authority on Muslim political systems and cultures. Weiss has research interests that include women and social change in the Muslim world, women's human rights, religion and social change, and sociology, culture and development of the Middle East/Southeast Asia.
Poverty, genocide and Darfur:
Paul Sovic, courtesy professor, psychology; co-founder and president of non-profit Decision Research
Web: http://www.decisionresearch.org/people/slovic/
Slovic studies human judgment, decision-making, risk analysis and management. He can discuss these areas in the context of foreign policy and, especially, genocide. He has urged a review and overhaul of the 1948 Genocide Convention. A news release on his genocide talk at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, can be found at: http://waddle.uoregon.edu/?id=689.
Poverty and women:
Ellen Scott, director, Women's and Gender Studies; associate professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/scott.php
Scott's research focuses on gender, race and class, as well as on poverty, low-wage labor and family life, welfare reform and feminist organizations.
Racial inequality:
Aaron Gullickson, assistant professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/gullickson.php
Gullickson's research focuses on inequality, race, ethnicity and kinship. He is currently engaged in a broad research project examining the development of the one-drop rule (the notion that anyone with even one drop of African American blood must be considered black) and the stratification of mixed-race individuals in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Racial politics:
Daniel Martinez HoSang, assistant professor, political science
Web: http://polisci.uoregon.edu/facbios.php?name=Daniel_HoSang
HoSang's research focuses on racial politics and racial justice. He teaches classes on racial theory; racial politics in the U.S. since 1945; Asian American Studies; and race, gender and public policy. More informationa about HoSang can be found at
Priscilla Yamin, assistant professor, political science
Web: http://polisci.uoregon.edu/facbios.php?name=Priscilla_Yamin
Yamin studies the role of marriage in U.S. political history, gender studies and feminist theory. In September 2007, she presented a paper on "The Search for Marital Order: Immigration, Marriage and the Politics of the Progressive Era" at the annual Political Science Association Meetings in Chicago.
Social inequality:
James Elliott, associate professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/elliott.php
Elliott's research has focused on urban development and social inequalities in the United States, ranging from research on native- and foreign-born migration, racial and gender inequalities in the labor market, struggles over public housing and social vulnerabilities to environmental hazards. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Violence against women:
Jocelyn Hollander, associate professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/index.php
Hollander's research interests include the social construction of race, class, gender and sexuality. She is currently doing research on self-defense training and the prevention of violence against women.
War, peace and international security:
Gregory McLauchlan, associate professor, sociology
Web: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/mclauchlan.php
McLauchlan is an expert on political sociology with emphasis on war, peace and international security, as well as the relationships among states, military structures and social systems. He has studied community activists and nuclear politics in the Pacific Rim.
Jane Cramer, assistant professor, political science
Web: http://polisci.uoregon.edu/facbios.php?name=Jane_Cramer
Cramer can discuss international security issues, causes and prevention of war, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, nonproliferation issues, arms control, U.S. military interventions and national missile defense systems. Cramer is an active researcher of and advocate for worldwide nonproliferation initiatives targeting nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
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