Research shows that cis-women and other minority groups (e.g., Hispanic, Black, LGBTQIA+, etc.) are very underrepresented in open source software (OSS). We aim to improve equity and diversity in OSS by understanding…
Results for "race and ethnicity"
Projects
Open source software participation in context of lives and careers: a longitudinal panel study
Faculty
Colonial Spanish America, 15-18th century Spain, the Hispanic imperial world. Current projects include a monograph entitled "Purchasing Whiteness: Unofficial and Official Passing in Colonial Spanish America…
Identity, agency, and social movements in education with a focus on Chicana/o and Indígena education; native methodologies and educational research; citizenship and social studies education; activism as a social…
Urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level. Other areas of interest include immigration, human rights, and U.S.-Mexico…
Fatima Varner's major research interests include the roles of ethnicity, gender, and context on parenting, family processes, and adolescent outcomes.
ethnoarchaeology; ethnohistory/historical anthropology; Native American prehistory and history; dynamics of culture change; power; ethnicity; gender; ceramic technology; Texas, Northern Mexico; Plains. Europe; Iberia…
African American history; antebellum slavery; black business history and political economy; black intellectual history; African American women's history
Professor Walker is presently engaged in a book-…
The "new urban market” (a dynamic web of industries, products, market segments, sensibilities, and cultural narratives that signal the arrival of profound shifts in how entertainment and educational media…
Professor Wilks recently finished Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), a cultural history of adaptations of the Carmen story set…