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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