Title
Keynote Panel
Location
De Rosa University Center, Ballroom
Start Date
12-5-2019 5:00 PM
End Date
12-5-2019 7:00 PM
Presentation Type
Keynote
Description
Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs is a writer and PhD student. She holds a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University. Anna's research, writing, and talks are centered on gender and race issues in the US, especially as these relate to youth, politics, and education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates scholar. She recently accepted her first book deal and she is also the First Partner of Stockton.
Tanya Golash-Boza is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She has published five sole-authored books and over 50 articles and book chapters. Tanya Golash-Boza’s scholarship ranges from issues of race and identity in Peru to human rights to immigration policy and deportation. Her latest book, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. It explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis. Her other books include Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), and Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (University Press of Florida, 2011). Her textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (Oxford University Press, 2015; 2018) provides a critical overview of contemporary race scholarship. Professor Golash-Boza shares her insights into faculty productivity and well-being through workshops and her blog, Get a Life, PhD. For this and other outreach work, Professor Golash-Boza was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service.
Zulema Valdez is Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. Grounded in theories of intersectionality, her areas of research and teaching expertise include the study of immigrant entrepreneurship, undocumented students in higher education, and health disparities and food access in low-resource immigrant and ethnic minority communities. Professor Valdez has received fellowship and grant support from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Her work has been published in many academic journals and edited volumes. She is the author of two books, The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class and Gender Shape American Enterprise (Stanford, 2011) and Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream (Routledge, 2015). In her efforts to advance social justice and engage with the larger community, she volunteers as facilitator for the Insight Garden Program at Chowchilla Women’s Prison and serves on the advisory board for the American Bar Foundation’s network for justice research initiative. Valdez is currently developing a new area of research on the “future-present” of climate change.
Keynote Panel
De Rosa University Center, Ballroom
Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs is a writer and PhD student. She holds a Masters in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Stanford University. Anna's research, writing, and talks are centered on gender and race issues in the US, especially as these relate to youth, politics, and education. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates scholar. She recently accepted her first book deal and she is also the First Partner of Stockton.
Tanya Golash-Boza is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She has published five sole-authored books and over 50 articles and book chapters. Tanya Golash-Boza’s scholarship ranges from issues of race and identity in Peru to human rights to immigration policy and deportation. Her latest book, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (New York University Press, 2015), was awarded the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association. It explains mass deportation in the context of the global economic crisis. Her other books include Due Process Denied (Routledge, 2012), Immigration Nation (Paradigm, 2012), and Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru (University Press of Florida, 2011). Her textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach (Oxford University Press, 2015; 2018) provides a critical overview of contemporary race scholarship. Professor Golash-Boza shares her insights into faculty productivity and well-being through workshops and her blog, Get a Life, PhD. For this and other outreach work, Professor Golash-Boza was awarded the UC Merced Senate Faculty Award for Distinguished Scholarly Public Service.
Zulema Valdez is Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Sociology at UC Merced. Grounded in theories of intersectionality, her areas of research and teaching expertise include the study of immigrant entrepreneurship, undocumented students in higher education, and health disparities and food access in low-resource immigrant and ethnic minority communities. Professor Valdez has received fellowship and grant support from the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Her work has been published in many academic journals and edited volumes. She is the author of two books, The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class and Gender Shape American Enterprise (Stanford, 2011) and Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream (Routledge, 2015). In her efforts to advance social justice and engage with the larger community, she volunteers as facilitator for the Insight Garden Program at Chowchilla Women’s Prison and serves on the advisory board for the American Bar Foundation’s network for justice research initiative. Valdez is currently developing a new area of research on the “future-present” of climate change.
