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University of California, San Diego
Ethnic Studies Department

Degrees Awarded: MA, PhD

Academic System: Quarter

Tuition: Undergraduate Resident $6,681, Nonresident $17,304/year; Graduate Resident $8,611; Nonresident $23,572

Deadlines: Graduate admissions and financial aid, 3/2

Financial Aid: Scholarships, grants, loans, work-study, student employment, graduate fellowships

Program Specializations: Intercultural communication, race, ethnicity, immigration, gender, political and social movements, cultural pluralism

The graduate program is an inter-disciplinary social science program specializing in analytic, comparative, and theoretical approaches to the study of ethnicity and race. It is a demanding, rigorous, and comprehensive graduate curriculum promoting expertise in analytic, comparative and interdisciplinary studies of race and ethnicity that will position graduates to play an important role in the field in the years ahead. It seeks to raise fundamental questions about the nature of knowledge, about the adequacy of existing scholarly conventions and paradigms, and about the relationships between the things studied and the tools used in our research. Ethnic Studies owes its existence to the development of interdisciplinary trends within disciplines (social history, new historicist literary studies, interpretive ethnography in anthropology, historical sociology, etc.) as well as to the growing dialogue across disciplines--especially within the humanities and social sciences. Our emphasis on studying ethnic groups in relation to one another and to broader social and cultural forces gives our research and our curriculum its distinctive identity. Our primary focus on race and ethnicity encourages us to engage with social theories about identity and power. In addition, while existing social science disciplines produce excellent work on ethnic issues, we offer an interdisciplinary setting where the primary emphasis is on theorizing race and ethnicity.

Ethnic Studies Faculty

ALVAREZ, Robert R. (PhD, Stanford Univ, 1979) Social-cultural processes of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Transnationalism, community ethnography, borders and borderlands, and the ethics of applied research

DEXTER, Shalanda (PhD, Princeton, 2001) African American Religion, American Culture

ESPRITU, Yen Le (PhD, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, 1990) Professor of Ethnic Studies; comparative ethnic and race relations, gender, immigration, and Asian American studies.

FRANK, Ross H. (PhD, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1992) Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies; Native American history, ethnography, and culture, social and economic history of northern Mexico

GUTIÉRREZ, Ramón A. (PhD, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980) Professor and Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair of Ethnic Studies

MOLINA, Natalia (PhD, Univ. of Michigan, 2000) Social and cultural values in medicine and public health

PARK, Lisa Sun Hee (PhD, Northwestern, 1998) Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies; Immigrant Communities; Immigrant Health Care and Welfare Policies; Immigrant Labor, Citizenship, and Globalization; Race, Class, and Gender

PELLOW, David (PhD, Northwestern) Assistant Professor, Race and Ethnic Relations, Environmental Justice Studies, Social Movements, Globalization

SANCHEZ, Lisa (PhD, UCI) Transnational and Global Studies; Gender, Race, Ethnicity and the Law; Sexuality and Culture

SILVA, Denise Ferreira da (PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1999) Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies; classic and contemporary social theory, critical race theory, cultural studies, critical global studies

ZENTELLA, Ana Cella (PhD, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1981) Anthropolitical linguistics, US Latino varieties of Spanish and English, bilingualism, Spanglish, and English-only laws, language diversity and language rights

Contact

Ethnic Studies Department
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, M/C - 0522
La Jolla, CA 92093-0522
Phone: 858.534.3276
Fax: 858.534.8194
Email:
www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu

Chair/Director: Yen Le Espiritu