Results for "race and ethnicity"

Projects

Religion, Race, and Place Project

Project Lead:
Description:

A multimethod project that examines the role of religious beliefs and institutions in shaping health guidance among marginalized populations. This project seeks to illuminate the multidimensional role of religion in…

Faculty

Linda Ferreira-Buckley

Affiliated Departments:
English, Rhetoric and Writing
Research Interests:

Rhetorical education (e.g., speech, writing, performance, ethics) of Barbara Jordan, Houston's Fifth Ward, African Americans in the South. History of rhetoric, especially 18th- and 19th-century, in the UK and America…

Kevin M Foster

Affiliated Departments:
African and African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Interests:

African American student achievement; Education Policy; Diversity and student academic outcomes; Cultural Theory in Education

Maria Franklin

Affiliated Departments:
African and African Diaspora Studies, Anthropology, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies
Research Interests:

Historical archaeology, archaeological theory, African Diaspora studies, race and gender, feminist theory, colonialism and slavery.

Alexandra A Garcia

Affiliated Departments:
School of Nursing
Research Interests:

Chronic disease self-management among marginalized populations, particularly factors that impact self-management of diabetes among Mexican Americans and other Hispanic/Latino populations; self-management of multiple…

Seth W Garfield

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, History, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

History of Brazil; environmental history of Latin America; Amazonian and indigenous history; food studies; race, ethnicity and migration in Latin America; comparative frontiers; Cold War Latin America

Thomas Jesús Garza

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Mexican American Studies, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Comparative Literature, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Education
Research Interests:

Contemporary Russian youth culture; masculinity in contemporary Russia and Mexico; the Chechen wars and conscription in Russia; the vampire myth in Slavic cultures; standards-based assessment of language programs;…

John M Gonzalez

Affiliated Departments:
American Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Plan II Honors Program
Research Interests:

Latino/a literature, especially Chicano/a literature; late nineteenth-century US literature and culture; narrative theory; postcolonial theory; cultural studies.

Gloria González-López

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Mexican American Studies, Sociology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

Gender and sexuality of Mexican and Mexican immigrant populations
Dr. González-López's current research project is an in-depth sociological examination of incest and other forms of sexualized contact (i.e.,…