Mission:

The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity was founded in 1999 with the mission to develop a curriculum focused on the experiences of African-, Latino/a-, Asian-, and Native-American (ALANA) people, who tend to be marginalized, underrepresented, or misrepresented in the U.S. as well as in the normative curriculum.  Most of the Center’s courses thus take the U.S. as the primary site for engaging race but many also problematize borders and binaries (inside/outside, self/ other, black/white, local /global), as a way to explore the inter-connections between ALANA people and white society, as well as between the U.S. and the world. 

The Center also fosters dialogues on issues pertaining to race through extra-curricular programming, notably its year-long Discussion Series, which brings between six and eight speakers, artists, and performers to Ithaca over the Fall and Spring semesters.  This dual and comprehensive focus is meant to help students to live meaningfully in a multiracial and polycultural world by understanding how race and ethnicity shape an individual's identity and life chances.

Affiliates of the Center:     

List of Faculty and Administrators who serve, or have served, on various committees of the Center.

Jonathan Ablard, Associate Professor, History
Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor & Chair, HSHP
Mo Baptiste, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education
Changhee Chun, Associate Professor, Cinema, Photography 
Jeane Copenhaver-Johnson, Associate Prof. & Chair, Dept of Ed
Kelly Dietz, Assistant Professor, Politics  
Maria DiFrancesco, Associate Prof., Modern Lang. & Lit.
Julian Euell, Associate Professor, Sociology
Jason Freitag, Associate Professor, History
Sue-je Gage, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Chip Gagnon, Associate Professor & Chair, Politics
Carla Golden, Professor, Psychology
Belisa Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Sociology
Hongwei Guan, Assistant Professor, HSHP
Brooke Hansen, Associate Professor, Anthropology
Beth Harris, Associate Professor, Politics
Shewanee Howard, Assistant Professor, HPPE
Naeem Inayatullah, Professor, Politics
Katharine Kittredge, Professor, English
Annette Levine, Associate Prof., Modern Lang. & Lit.
Hong Li, Lecturer, Modern Languages & Literatures
Lu Liu, Assistant Professor, History
Denise Nuttall, Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Roger Richardson, Assoc VP & Dean, StACL
Virginia Mansfield-Richardson, Associate Dean, Comm.
Jim Rothenberg, Associate Professor, Sociology
Tanya Saunders, Assistant Provost, Int’l Studies & Sp. Projects
Tom Shevory, Professor, Politics
Jack Wang, Assistant Professor & Chair, Writing
Zenon Wasyliw, Professor, History
Dana Wilson, Professor, Music Theory, History & Composition
Min (Kim) You, Lecturer, Modern Languages & Literatures
Raquib Zaman, Professor & Chair, Finance & Int'l Business
Patricia Zimmermann, Professor, Cinema, Photo & Media Arts