2009 Transracial Adoption Panel
Transracial Adoptions: Considerations in a "Post-Race" Era
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Toy Lounge, Dey Hall
Charlene Chester is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA where she is studying issues surrounding parenting, particularly Behavioral Genetics, Cultural and Race Implications on Family Processes, and Child Behavioral Outcomes . She received a B.S. in psychology from Morgan State University in 2004 and a Masters of Pyschology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. Chester was a 2003 student fellow in the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) at UNC. Under the tutelage of Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, she authored the research paper, “The Effects of Caregiver Disciplinary Strategies upon black Adolescent Peer Group Influences.” Chester served as MURAP's program assistant from 2003-2007. She has been an IAAR fellow since the fall of 2007.
Rachael Murphey-Brown is a Carolina Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-CH. She earned a B.S. in Political Science from Portland State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the UNC-CH in 2005. Dr. Murphey-Brown's research focuses on the nature of the relationship between racial identity and academic culture and the extent to which such a relationship explains the critical political engagement of African American academic intellectuals. This research earned the 2007 Donald Gatzke dissertation award by the American Association of University Administrators. She teaches courses on African American history and political thought. Her current research focuses on the history and future of Black Studies in the United States and contemporary black (identity) politics in a “post-race” era.
Eunice Sahle is Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and Associate Professor of International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. She received her B.A. in Political Science/International Development at the University of Toronto, Canada; an M.A in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada; and her Ph. D. in Political Studies from Queen's University, Canada. She teaches courses in African Studies on political economy; human rights and social justice movements; and cultural production. In International Studies, she teaches courses on: comparative political economy of development; and global issues with a focus on globalization and transitions to democracy. Her current research focuses on global political economy; critical development studies; African Diasporic formations in Canada and Europe; refugee studies and political economy of displacement; social movements; democracy, human rights and citizenship; feminist political economy; political economy of global cities; and cultural production. (Adapted from the website of the Department of African and Afro-American Studies at UNC-CH).
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