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Executive Committee

David Li
English
Robin
Morris-Collin

Law
Jeffrey Ostler
History
Scott Pratt
Philosophy
Judith Raiskin
Women's Studies
Jiannbin Shiao
Sociology
Martin Summers
History

Mia Tuan
Sociology

David Li, Collins Professor of Humanities.

B.A., 1982, Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute; M.A., 1986, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., 1991, Texas at Austin.

Research areas: Post colonial literature; cultural studies; ethnic literature; film studies; literary theory

Publications: Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Stanford University Press, 1998) "Can Asian American Studies Abandon 'Nation'?"; "Representing The Woman Warrior: An Essay of Interpretive History."

Work in progress: Sinic Cinema: Migration, Modernity and Morés; Chinese Passages: An American Remembrance; and "On The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Non-Native Speaker."

davidlli@oregon.uoregon.edu

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Robin Morris-Collin, Professor of Law.

B.A., 1976, Colorado College; J.D., 1980, Arizona State (Coif); Arizona bar, 1980.

Research areas: Cultural property law, environmental justice and sustainability.

Publications: Forever Free: The New Paradigm of Sustainability and Equity (manuscript of book, work in progress). Sustainability and Environmental Justice: Is the Future Clean and Black? (forthcoming, in The Environment Legal Report) The Next Generation of Environmental Decision Making: Beyond Land, Air and Water. The Oregon Lawyer. The Role of Communities in Environmental Decisions: Communities Speaking for Themselves 13 Journal of Environmental Law And Litigation 37 - 89. Urban Environmentalism and Race in Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows, eds. Marsha Ritzdorf and June Manning Thomas (Sage Publications).

rcollin@law.uoregon.edu

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Jeffrey Ostler, Associate Professor of History.

B.A., 1979, Utah; M.A., 1984, Ph.D., 1990, Iowa.

Research areas: The Road to Wounded Knee, 1890

Publications: Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (University Press of Kansas, 1993) "Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska But Weak in Iowa" Western Historical Quarterly (1992) "The Rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Populism in Kansas," Agricultural History (1995).

jostler@oregon.uoregon.edu

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Scott Pratt , Associate Professor of Philosophy.

B.A., 1981, Beloit; Ph.D., 1995, Minnesota.

Research areas: Scott L. Pratt is completing a book, Native Pragmatism: Recovering the History of American Thought. He argues that the central commitments of the pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey can be traced to Native American thought and were developed, in part, as a philosophy of resistance against the philosophies of assimilation and conquest that became dominant in 19th century America. This work in the history of philosophy is related to his larger interest in issues of cultural pluralism including theories of race and the implications of racial and cultural difference for theories of knowledge. Research in this area includes work on W. E. B. Du Bois' pragmatic theory of "whiteness," Jane Addams' conception of inquiry as a process of "domestic analysis," and a reconsideration of Dewey's theory of inquiry as part of what he called "cultural naturalism."

Publications: American Philosophy: An Anthology. Co-edited with Leonard Harris and Anne Waters. Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming). The Philosophy of Cadwallader Colden. Co-edited with John Ryder. Prometheus Press (forthcoming). Inquiry and Analysis: Dewey and Russell on Philosophy. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 17: 101-122, 1998. "A Sailor in a Storm": Dewey on the Meaning of Language. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 33, 4, (Fall 1997). Native American Thought and the Origins of Pragmatism. Ayaangwaamizin: The International Journal of Indigenous Philosophy, 1 (Spring 1997). The Influence of the Iroquois on Early American Philosophy. Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 32, 2 (Spring 1996). Philosophy, Criticism, and Social Reform. Metaphilosophy, 26, 4 (October 1995), 337-346. Knowledge and Experience. In Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, edited by Armen T. Marsoobian and John Ryder. Blackwell Publishing (forthcoming). Learning from Experience: Native American Thought and the History of Philosophy. In Pushing Up the Sky: Philosophical Encounters with Native American Wisdom Traditions, Thomas Alexander, editor. Vanderbilt University Press (forthcoming). Ceremony and Rationality in the Haudenosaunee Tradition. In Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debate, edited by Cynthia Willett. Blackwell Publishing, 1998, 401-421.

spratt@darkwing.uoregon.edu

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Judith Raiskin, Associate Professor of Women's Studies.
Currently on sabbatical

B.A., 1979, California, Berkeley; M.A., 1981, Chicago; Ph.D., 1989, Stanford.

Research areas: Racial, sexual, and national identities; colonial and neocolonial politics; economics; education

Publications: Snow on the Cane Fields: Women's Writing and Creole Subjectivity (1996) "Inverts and Hybrids: Lesbian Rewritings of Sexual and Racial Difference," The Lesbian Postmodern (1994) "7 Days/6 Nights at 'Plantation Estates': A Critique of Cultural Colonialism by Caribbean Writers," Deferring a Dream: Literary Sub-Versions of the American Columbiad (1994)

raiskin@oregon.uoregon.edu

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Jiannbin Shiao, Assistant Professor of Sociology.

B.A., 1991, Brown; M.A., 1994 and 1996, Ph.D., 1996, California, Berkeley.

Research areas: Race and ethnicity; political sociology; education; social stratification; philanthropic foundations; minority nonprofit development; transracial, intercountry adoption; emergent Asian American cultures

Publications: "Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States," Social Forces (1999)

jshiao@darkwing.uoregon.edu

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Martin Summers, Assistant Professor of History.

B.A., 1990, Hampton (Virginia); Ph.D., 1997, Rutgers.

Research areas: Black nationalism; African American intellectual history; social construction of gender and masculinity; race and sexuality; African diaspora

msummers@oregon.uoregon.edu

Mia Tuan, Assistant Professor of Sociology.

B.A., 1990, California, Berkeley; M.A., 1992, Ph.D., 1996, California, Los Angeles.

Research areas: Racial/ethnic identity formation; intergroup relations; transracial adoption; immigrant adaptation

Publications: "Neither Real Americans nor Real Asians?: Multigeneration Asian Ethnics Navigating the Terrain of Authenticity," Qualitative Sociology (1999) Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today (Rutgers University Press, 1998)

tuan@oregon.uoregon.edu

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