CSER Writer-in-Residence, Marie Myung-Ok Lee wrote a piece about anti-Asian violence for ZORA, the BIPOC channel on Medium. Read it here >>

CSER Faculty, Claudio Lomnitz, was elected member of Mexico’s Colegio Nacional, which is a great honor. The Colegio Nacional has existed since 1943, and it has a maximum of 40 members, divided equally among the hard sciences, the biological and medical sciences, the social sciences, and arts and letters. It is a lifelong membership. Read article here >>

Carla Fredericks, Columbia Law School alumna, scholar, lawyer and advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ rights in governance, development, and global policy has been appointed as the new Executive Director of The Christensen Fund. Carla Fredericks currently serves as Clinical Professor and Director of the American Indian Law Clinic at Colorado Law.

As an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation of North Dakota, Ms. Fredericks will be the first Native American to lead The Christensen Fund, and the first Native person to lead a private foundation of its size. She will assume her role in January 2021.

We congratulate Carla Fredricks and wish her every success in this new exciting path and look forward to continuing collaboration for Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Click to see the Christensen Fund announcement >>

The Institute for the Study of Human Rights, through its Indigenous Peoples Rights Program, will participate at the International Congress of Cultural and Creative Industries 2020. The Congress is organized online by the Ministry of Culture of Jalisco and The Office of UNESCO in Mexico. CSER Professor Elsa Stamatopoulou, will give a keynote address on 28 October on “Cultural Rights in the Covid Crisis”. For accessibility reasons, all activities of the congress will be transmitted live on Cultura Jalisco (Ministry of Culture of Jalisco) Facebook Page >> 

CSER Faculty, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, founding director of the Media and Idea Lab and the Latino Arts and Activism Archive, is featured in The Texas Observer article, “The Latino Vote And Its Legacy.” “There’s no single Latino story about the relationship of citizens and the state when it comes to elected power,” Professor Negrón-Muntaner said. “There are multiple stories.”

CSER faculty Claudio Lomnitz discusses in a podcast episode of Unpacking Latin America the plight of the more than 70,000 disappeared or missing people in Mexico and their search by family members. This search does not confront a strategic plan but a complicit and weak state, which contributes both willingly and unwillingly. He further talks about Mexico’s violence as a symptom of government incapacity and its links to the militarization of security, which has continued under the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Listen on Spotify and SoundCloud >>

Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Writer in Residence at CSER, is featured in a Publishers Weekly article that focuses on how women authors cope with the pandemic and how COVID-19 has affected their work.

CSER Co-Director Karl Jacoby is quoted extensively in NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth article that details the work of scholars and historians piecing together the story of the Underground Railroad in Texas, which helped thousands of enslaved Blacks emancipate themselves by escaping to Mexico.

Media and Idea Lab’s Frances Negrón-Muntaner speaks with Elisabetta Diorio in a special feature in the Films for the Feminist Classroom Journal discussing feminist film pedagogy.

Read CSER’s Adjunt Professor OuYang’s “Two Recent Supreme Court Decisions and Changing Demographics Underscore the Importance of US Citizenship,” which was recently published in the University of California Berkeley School of Law’s Asian American Law Journal.

Professor Sayantani DasGupta has newly published a chapter book biography, She Persisted: Virginia Apgar. Additionally, Professor Sayantani has published two new articles: “Pedagogy of the Pandemic: Narrative Medicine and Radical Empathy” in Synapsis and “Abolition Medicine” (with Yoshiko Iwai and Zahra Kahn) in The Lancet.

MPR News interviews CSER Professor Marie Myung-Ok Lee on Asian-American representation in children’s media, following a discussion of the same in Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitter’s Club, now a Netflix series. Read the article here.

CSER honors student Amanda Qi Xin Ong, who has created a website to share her thesis, “as you left it,” a creative nonfiction oral history, through mixed media.

Co-Director Mae Ngai shared her thoughts about the effect of President Trump’s incendiary tweets on the Chinese-American community. She is featured on Background Briefing  and quoted in an Oprah Magazine article.

CSER Professor Jennifer Lee was inducted on February 23, 2020 as the 91st President of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS). As President of one of the largest regional sociological societies in the world, Prof. Lee will design the 2021 ESS Annual Conference, which will be hosted in New York City.

CSER Co-Director Mae Ngai was awarded the Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship for 2020-2021. She also delivered the Cheng Centennial Lecture at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, on January 22.

Many immigrant communities, wary of the government’s interest in their information, tend to avoid the US Census. The Guardian quoted CSER Professor Liz OuYang on her important work as a census expert in NYC. Read more here.

Interested in helping out or learning more about the current situation in Puerto Rico? Centro voces of Hunter College’s Center for Puerto Rican Studies has compiled a list of important updates on the country, in addition to contextualizing history and current affairs articles. Read more here.

CSER Professor Liz OuYang is a Norman Y. Mineta Leadership Institute trainer for APIA Vote, helping with census outreach strategies and best practices. Read more here.