New Faculty
Professor Jennifer L. Morgan, who taught in SCA as a visiting faculty member throughout the 2005-2006 academic year, will be staying on at NYU. Professor Morgan, who previously taught at Rutgers University, is an historian of gender and the early modern African diaspora. Her 2004 book, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in the Making of New World Slavery (U of Pennsylvania P) explores the relationship between enslaved women’s reproductive lives and the development of early American slave societies both on the mainland and in the Caribbean. Her current projects include an exploration of the relationship between slavery, demography, and colonial numeracy, and a social history of slavery and family formation in colonial New York City.
In 2006-2007 the Department welcomed Professor Juan Flores to its faculty. A highly respected scholar of Latino Studies, Professor Flores has taught since 1975 at the City University of New York, where he is currently a member of the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican–Latino Studies. His many publications include the 2000 Columbia University Press volume, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. Professor Flores will teach in SCA every fall beginning in 2006, when he will offer the undergraduate MAP course World Cultures: Contemporary Latino Cultures, and a graduate seminar in Afro-Latino Studies.
Professor María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo joined the SCA faculty as of fall 2006. Professor Saldaña is the author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke UP, 2003), and her current research project—titled “Colonial Melancholy and the Racial Geography of the Postmodern Americas”—compares the lasting effects of British and Spanish racial projects in the Americas on postmodern and modern fiction. Professor Saldaña is also researching the economic causes and political consequences of recent Mexican immigration to the New York metropolitan area. Professor Saldaña became Director of the Latino Studies Program in January 2007.
In fall 2006 we were joined by a new Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. Minh-Ha T. Pham received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California-Berkeley, and will be contributing principally to our Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program. Her scholarship is focused in the areas of Asian American Popular Culture, Media Studies, Humor Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Asian American Literature.
