Events

• Welcome by Dr. Barbara Entwisle, Vice Chancellor for Research and Development
• Greetings by Terri Houston, Interim Associate Provost for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
• Opening Remarks: Dr. Rosa Perelmuter, Director of MURAP

Keynote Address I
Introduction:  Tressie McMillan Cottom (MURAP 2009)
William "Sandy" Darity, Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African American Studies, and Economics, Duke University
"Shades of Immigrant Opportunity in the USA"

A Sampling of MURAP Students’ Research (Part I)

1. Rene Morgan, “Analyzing the Design of Programs for Youth in Vulnerable Communities”
   
   
2. Helen Ho, “Inaccuracies in Estimating Rail Ridership Demand in the Triangle Region of North Carolina”
   
   
3.  Steven Roberts, “Discrimination and Health: The Role of Racial Identity”

Featured Presentation
Sejal Zota, JD, Immigration Specialist, UNC-Chapel Hill
“From Ellis Island to the Patriot Act: An Overview of Immigration Law and Policy”

Panel I:  Emigration to the US in a Global Context
Moderator:  Prof. Jennifer Ho, UNC-Chapel Hill

1. Prof. Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington
   "A Forgotten History: Chinese Americans and the Vaudeville Stage, 1900s-1930s"
   
   
2. Prof. Shelley Lee, Oberlin College
    “Immigration, Exclusion, and the Stakes of Asian American History”
   
   
3. Krista Perreira, UNC-Chapel Hill
    “Childhood Migration and Well-being: A Framework for Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges”
   
   

A Sampling of MURAP Students’ Research (Part II)

Monique Kelly, “The Acculturation and Assimilation of Second Generation English-Speaking Caribbean Immigrants: A Study of Racial and Ethnic Identity and Self-Esteem”

1. Matthew Ong, “The Ideology of the American Dream in Gish Jen’s World and Town”
   
   
2. Gabriella Deal-Márquez, “Women with Curves Articulating the Female Body:  Chicana Cultural Identity in Theatre”

Introduction: Prof. Karolyn Tyson, UNC-Chapel Hill
 Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University “Segmented Assimilation in the Second Immigrant Generation and Means to Overcome it”

Panel II: Dreams and Realities of Latino Immigration
Moderator: Prof. Altha Cravey, UNC-Chapel Hill

1. Prof. Jonathan Rosa, New York University
   “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Making Latina/o Identities and Managing American Anxieties”
    
2. Prof. Ashley Lucas, UNC-Chapel Hill
   “Immigrants in US Prisons: Documentation and Its Discontents”
   
   
3. Prof. Richard Pineda, University of Texas at El Paso  “Border (Dis)order: Mediated Views on Immigration”
   
   
4. Prof. Paul Cuadros, UNC-Chapel Hill
   "Writing and Reporting on Immigration Issues: Challenges and Rewards"

1. Moderator:  Prof. Gena Chandler, Virginia Tech
   Gena Chandler (MURAP 1996), Associate Professor of English, Virginia Tech
   
   
2. Brandon Winford (MURAP ‘04), doctoral candidate in History, UNC-Chapel Hill
   Andrew Martínez (MURAP ‘09), doctoral student in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
   
   
3. Tressie McMillan Cottom (MURAP ’09), doctoral student in Educational Policy, Emory University