FACULTY FORUM on RACE AND ETHNICITY at Rutgers University
A ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM: AN OPEN INVITATION TO FACULTY

Please join us for the 3rd Annual Faculty Forum on Race and Ethnicity, Friday 3/27 in the Pane Room of the Alexander Library.  See schedule below for times and sessions.

Cross disciplinary conversation; Informal presentations; Faculty research on race and ethnicity, across disciplines, departments, schools, and campuses.

8:30 a.m.  Continental Breakfast Available

9:00-9:10 a.m.  Welcome: Keith Wailoo, Director, Center for Race and Ethnicity; Mia Bay, Associate Director, CRE

Panel 1 (9:10-9:40 a.m.) Race, Ethnicity, and Cultures of Transit

• Mia Bay, History-NB, Traveling Black:  A History of Segregated Transportation
• Daniel Chatman, Bloustein School for Planning and Public Policy-NB, Transportation, Location Choice and Economic Development: The Roles of Race and Nativity
  

Panel 2 (9:40-10:25 a.m.) Obesity and Ethnicity: Research Across the Disciplines

• Sheila Cosminsky, Anthropology/Center for Childhood Research-CMD, Child Obesity, Mexican Migrant Farm Workers in Southern New Jersey, and the Development of Culturally Appropriate Interventions (with Diane Markowitz, Rowan University)
• Deborah Carr, Sociology-NB, Obesity Related Discrimination: Racial Differences
• Tetsuji Yamada, Economics/Center for Childhood Research-CMD, Evaluation of State Obesity Policies on Children: Who is Overweight, Who is at Risk, and Why?  (with Chia-Ching Chen, New York Medical College; Matthew Miller, Economics, Rutgers-Camden)
  

Panel 3 (10:30 -11:00 a.m.) Ethnicity and the Uses of Media

• Regina Marchi, School of Communication, Information, and Library Sciences-NB, How Disenfranchised Groups Use Media
• Dennis Kim-Prieto, Law School-NWK (Law Library), Spanish-English Bilingual Legal Dictionaries and Communities of Language and Practice:  Toward a Critical Evaluation
  

Break (11:00 – 11:15 a.m.)

Panel 4 (11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) The Islands, Displacement, and Belonging

• David Hughes, Human Ecology/Anthropology-NB, Planet of Vapors:  Natural Gas, Atlantic Islands and the Environmental Imagination
• Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Latino Studies/Comparative Literature-NB, Other Caribbean Confederations: Sexile in the French and Hispanic Caribbean
• Allan Isaac, English/American Studies-NB, A Discussion of Paper Dolls (2007): A Documentary Film on Filipino Transgendered Caregivers in Israel
  

 Panel 5 (12:00 -12:45 p.m.) Criminal Differences and American Justice

• J.C. Lore, Law School-CMD (Co-Dir., Children's Justice Clinic), The End of Innocence: Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
• Don Roden, History-NB, The Mountainview Correctional Facility and Juvenile Justice: An Institutional Partnership between Rutgers and the Project Inside Program
• Paul Hirschfield, Sociology-NB, Spacial Hyperconcentrations of Juvenile Justice Contact in Chicago and its Racially Disparate Consequences for Schools and Neighborhoods
  

Lunch (12:45 p.m.)