Alumni

Yolanda Venegas

Lecturer
Writing Program Department at UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Vest

Lecturer and Performing Artist

María Villaseñor

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities & Communication Department at CSU Monterey Bay

Frederick "Rickey" Vincent

Lecturer
African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley

Tria Blu Wakpa

Assistant Professor
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department at UCLA

Oliver Wang

Associate Professor
Sociology Department Department at CSU Long Beach

Sarah Whitt

My dissertation “False Promises: Race, Power, and the Chimera of Indian Assimilation, 1879-1934,” centers on the institutionalization and punishment of American Indian women and men at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) in Carlisle, PA and the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (1902-1934) in Canton, SD, the first institutions of their kind designed solely for Indian people. Specifically, I analyze how white American officials at Carlisle and Canton devised new disciplinary techniques to control, manage, and immobilize adult Indian people, and how officials at both sites...

Shelly Sunn Wong

Associate Professor
English Department at Cornell Univeristy

Matthew Wray

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Liberal Arts Department at Temple University