Race, Ethnicity, and Social Justice Faculty
Michael Mosier
Associate Professor of Spanish
Serves as program advisor and teaches courses in Spanish language, literature, culture, and Latin American Studies, as well as off-campus classes in Argentina and Guatemala. Courses include Resistance and Revolution in the Caribbean, Identity and Alterity in Latin American Literature, Cuba: Collision of Cultures, and Introduction to Latin American Studies. Ph.D., Hispanic literature, Indiana University
Christina Morris Penn-Goetsch
Professor of Art History
Teaches elective courses in African, African American, and Native American art history, as well as other topics courses in non-Western art history. Ph.D., art history, University of Iowa
Mary Olson
Professor of Sociology
Teaches the core course Race and Ethnic Relations, and the electives Contemporary Native Americans; Women: Oppressions and Resistances; and Civil Rights and Western Racism. Ph.D., sociology, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Alyssa Selmer
Associate Professor of Spanish
Teaches the core course Introduction to Ethnic Studies, as well as courses in Spanish language, literature, and culture, with an emphasis on 20th-century Peninsular Spain. Ph.D., Hispanic Literatures, University of Minnesota
Catherine Stewart
Professor of History
Teaches the core course Introduction to Ethnic Studies, as well as the electives Slavery and the Environment in a Comparative Context (Bahamas), America’s Second City: The Urban Transformation of Chicago (Newberry Library in Chicago), U.S. Social History Since 1940, African-Americans in U.S. History, and American Lives: African American Autobiography. Ph.D., history, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Emeriti
Alfrieta Monagan
Professor of Anthropology Emerita
Ph.D. and M.A., Princeton University; A.B., George Washington University