Dr. Charise Cheney has left her sunny downtown SLO home to accept a joint appointment in African-American History and Africana Studies at State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton. We are most appreciative of the contributions that Dr. Cheney made in advancing Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly, and for the many students that she inspired through her teaching and service.
We are slowly, but surely, becoming accustomed to her absence. Truth be told, we really miss the excitement and versatility of her daily attire and the spirit of her presence.
-- Good Luck, Dr. Cheney!
jlehr@calpoly.edu
756.6442
Office: 38/140
Office Hours
Dr. Jane L. Lehr received her PhD and MS in Science & Technology Studies from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, with concentrations in the social, cultural, and political studies of science and technology, and Women¹s Studies. In 2005-06, she served as a Research Officer in the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (NSF ESI-0119787) in the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King¹s College London. Her current research explores how formal and informal education serves as a site of training for future participation by scientific and technical experts and public(s) in personal and public decision-making practices, with particular attention to issues of social justice, cultural and national differences, and democracy. She is founder and co-director of the Theatre Workshop in Science, Technology, and Society (TWISTS) at Virginia Tech, which uses an innovative workshop model that brings together experts on the social and technical dimensions of science and technology with theatre arts practitioners to develop original performance pieces. By combining theatre, music, movement, and discussion, TWISTS seeks to facilitate dialogue about contemporary scientific and technical controversies amongst student, public, and professional communities.
kamartin@calpoly.edu
756.2827
Office: 38/138
Office Hours
Kathleen J. Martin received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara with an emphasis in Educational Leadership and Organizations, and Culture, Language and Literacy. She also holds dual masters degrees in Native American Traditions and Education. Her research interests include advocacy and equity in educational leadership, issues in American Indian education and language learning, and the influence of organizations in the lives and cultures of people. She is a repeated recipient of grants and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and currently is engaged in a number of projects that examine the use and appropriation of images and traditions by organizations to influence relationships. Dr. Martin's writings appear in a variety of publications including Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition (Macmillan Reference), Learning to Lead Together (Sage Publishers), Journal of School Effectiveness and School Change, Proteus, Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of School Leadership, and Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics.
epulitan@calpoly.edu
756.1409
Office: 38/139
Office Hours
Elvira Pulitano, a Fulbright scholar from Italy, holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of New Mexico where she specialized in Native American literatures and postcolonial studies. She is the author of Toward a Native American Critical Theory (U of Nebraska P, 2003) and of various essays on contemporary Native American and postcolonial writing. She is also the editor of Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures (forthcoming with The University of Nebraska P). Her interests in transnational approaches to contemporary literary studies have become the focus of her most recent scholarship. She is currently working on a monograph exploring literary representations of diaspora in Anglophone Caribbean literature. Before coming to Cal Poly, she taught postcolonial literatures and theory at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, in Switzerland.
arodrigu@calpoly.edu
756.1467
Office: 38/111
Office Hours
Aaron Rodrigues received his undergraduate training at the University of Southern California and his graduate school education at Stanford University, both in the discipline of Political Science. His graduate research focused on the United States Supreme Court's interpretation of the 14th Amendment's "equal protection" clause and its legal relation to ethnic minorities. Mr. Rodrigues has written book reviews for the American Political Science Review and the Yale Law Review, and has contributed two chapters to Russ Richardson's Texas Politics, Texas Courts and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Currently, he is involved in an oral/video history project sponsored by the University of Texas and the Texas Council for the Humanities of prominent Mexican-Americans from the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. In addition to his teaching duties at Cal Poly, Mr. Rodrigues is a full time instructor in the Political Science Department at Cuesta College. He is the recipient of the 2003 California Faculty Association's Outstanding Lecturer Award at Cal Poly.
vvalle@calpoly.edu
756.1707
Office: 38/136B
Office Hours
A native of Los Angeles, Victor Valle worked as a Los Angeles Times staff writer for eight years, during which time he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 as a member of the reporting team that wrote a multi-article series on Southern California's Latino community. Professor Valle has also won two Certificates of Excellence from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club; one for an investigative series in 1986 on "Hands Across America," the other in 1983 for an investigative series on undocumented Mexican workers. Recipe of Memory: Five Generations of Mexican Cuisine, garnered three nominations from two of the nation's leading culinary book competitions: The James Beard Award in New York, and the Julia Child Cookbook Awards in Philadelphia. His book, Latino Metropolis (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), examines the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of an emerging Latino majority in the greater Los Angeles area. His next book project, City of Industry: A Genealogy of Power, is soon to be published by the University of Minnesota Press. Professor Valle returned to Cal Poly in Fall 2005 after a two-year leave at Cal State University, Los Angeles, where he served as Director of the American Communities Program.
gyeh@calpoly.edu
756.6229
Office: 38/110
Office Hours
Dr. Grace Yeh received her Ph.D. in English from UCLA. She also holds degrees from Duke and Georgetown. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation, Asian Fighters in U.S. Minority Literature: Iconology, Intimacy, and Other Imagined Communities. Her research interests include comparative ethnic literature, cultural representations of race, gender and sexuality, and Bruce Lee. While at UCLA, Grace taught a number of courses focused on literary responses to race relations, especially in contemporary American literature. Though she's made herself at home in California, you'll know that Grace is not from around here when she slips in a few "y'alls" during lecture (she was born and raised in Georgia).
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