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15th Annual MURAP Academic Conference

"The State of Faculty Diversity in the U.S. in the 21st Century"

Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hitchcock Multipurpose Room, Rm. 101

Day 1 Friday, July 24, 2009
8:00 - 9:00am Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 9:30am Opening Remarks: Prof. Rosa Perelmuter, Professor of Spanish and Director, Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program
Welcome: Dr. Archie W. Ervin, Associate Provost for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, UNC-Chapel Hill l
9:30 - 10:00am Introduction of MURAP 2009 Student and Mentor Cohort
10:00 - 11:00am Keynote Presentation I:
Prof. Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner, Professor, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education, Arizona State University
“Faculty of Color in Academe: What Twenty Years of Literature Tells Us and Does Not Tell Us”
11:00 - 11:30am Coffee Break
11:30 - 1:00pm A Sampling of Research by the MURAP 2009 Cohort. Part I:
Kristen Smith, University of Illinois
“Race, Reality and Politics: The Future of North Carolina's HBCUs”
Jesús Valles, University of Texas-El Paso,
“How Else Are They Supposed to Know They Are Still Alive: Documentation and Domésticas in Lisa Loomer's Living Out”
1:00 - 2:00pm Catered Lunch
2:00 - 4:30pm Panel I: On the Road to Academia: Pipeline Programs, the Ph.D. and Beyond
Moderator: Prof. Rhonda V. Sharpe
Prof. William “Sandy” Darity, Arts and Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies, African and African American Studies and Economics, Duke University
“From Sundown to Window Dressing Departments: Addressing Non-Pipeline Obstacles to Faculty Diversity”
Prof. Rhonda V. Sharpe, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Business and Economics and Director of Financial Literacy, Bennett College for Women
“Challenges to Faculty Diversity: It Is a Numbers Game”
Prof. Fred A. Bonner, II, Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration, Texas A&M University
“The Temple of My Unfamiliar: Black Faculty in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs)”
Respondents:
Dr. Henry Frierson, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Florida
Prof. Michael E. Jennings, Associate Professor of Education and Policy Studies and Director of African American Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio
Prof. Brian Johnson, Chief of Staff and Associate Professor of English, Johnson C. Smith University
4:30 - 4:45pm Coffee Break
4:45 - 6:30pm MURAP Alumni Panel
Moderator: Prof. Mignon Moore
Prof. Mildred Mickle (MURAP 1989)
Associate Professor of English, Penn State University-Greater Allegheny
Prof. Mignon Moore (MURAP 1991)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Prof. Carlos Alamo (MURAP 1999)
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Vassar College
Dr. Folashadé Alao (MURAP 2000)
Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Literature, Rutgers University
Dr. Marquisha Green (MURAP 2000)
Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University Medical Center
Prof. Kris Sealey (MURAP 2000)
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Fairfield University
Ms. Kimberly Wortmann (MURAP 2007)
Candidate for Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Ms. Vanessa Hongsathavij (MURAP 2008)
Fulbright Scholar, 2009-2010
Graduate student in Political Science, Yale University (2010-)
Ms. Samanthis Smalls (MURAP 2008)
Graduate Student in History, Duke University
(2009-)
6:30pm Closing Remarks, Prof. Rosa Perelmuter
7:00pm Catered Dinner for Conference Participants

 

 

Day 2 Saturday, July 25, 2009
8:00 - 9:00am Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00am Keynote Presentation II:
Dr. Jacqueline Looney, Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Associate Vice Provost for Academic Diversity, Duke University
“Prescription for Persistence: Strategies for Staying the Course in Academia”
10:00 - 11:30am A Sampling of Research by the MURAP 2009 Cohort. Part II:
Collier Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
“Civic Engagement and Political Participation in Presidential Elections”
Tressie McMillan, North Carolina Central University
“Legacy and Memorialization of Reaganism and its Relationship to African Americans”
11:30 - 12:00pm Duke Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) Program Presentation: Alexander Robel, Duke University
“Modeling Hurricane Climatology in the Past, Present and Future”
12:00 - 1:00pm Catered Lunch
1:00 - 2:45pm Panel II: Scrutinizing the Canon: The Impact of Minority Scholars on Teaching and Research
Part I
Moderator: Prof. William Andrews, Senior Associate Dean for the Fine Arts and Humanities and E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
Prof. Silvio Torres-Saillant, William P. Tolley Disguished Professor of English, Syracuse University
“Counterpoint of the Ethnic and the Human in Minority Scholarship”
Eric King Watts, Associate Professor of Rhetoric Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Considering the (Necessary) Influence of ‘Racial’ Identity on Scholarship: or What’s All This Fuss over a ‘Wise Latina Woman’?”
Prof. Leslie Bow, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“‘Come on, see the Chinaman’: Asian American Studies in the ‘Postracial’ Moment”
Respondent: Prof. Charles Peterson, Associate Professor of Black Studies, College of Wooster
2:45 - 3:00pm Break
3:00 - 4:45pm Panel II, Part II
Moderator: Prof. Karolyn Tyson, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
Prof. Karla Slocum, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Black Scholars' Influence in the Social Sciences: Hurston and Hill”
Prof. Mae G. Henderson, Professor of English, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Toni Morrison's PARADISE: Race, Difference, and Trauma”
Prof. Tol Foster, Assistant Professor of American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
“Terra Nullis, or -- what would Indigenous studies look like without Indigenous scholars?”
Respondent: Prof. Kia Lilly Caldwell, Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
4:45 - 5:00pm Closing Remarks - Prof. Rosa Perelmuter
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