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Saul Alamilla

Saul G. Alamilla is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Applied Psychology in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He received the Ph.D. in Counseling, Clinical, School and Psychology (with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology (2002) and a Master of Science in Counseling (2004) at the California State University, Fullerton. His research interests include the mental health of ethnically/racially diverse individuals. He is particularly interested in the relationship between acculturation, enculturation, psychosocial stressors, and mental health among ethnically/racially diverse individuals and, in particular, Latino/a Americans.


Jian Chen

Jian (Chuan) Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Chen's research focuses on the new cultural interfaces provoked by the transnational circulation of sexed racial and ethnic cinematic images. Areas of interest include: gender and sexuality studies; film theory and visual cultures; postcolonial diasporas; and queer and transgender critique. As a NYU fellow, s/he will delve into a book manuscript exploring documentary and pornographic film and video on deviant Asian and Asian/American sexualities and genders. Chen received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine in 2008 and B.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies and English at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate work, s/he worked as a community organizer, event planner, and fundraiser for San Francisco Bay Area non-profit organizations confronting immigrant sweatshop labor and anti-lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/ queer violence. Chen has also participated in multiple subcultural literary, performance, and visual productions.


Lisette Garcia

Lisette Garcia completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Penn State. She also completed her Masters of Science in Sociology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Ohio State University. Her teaching interests include Stratification and Inequality, the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of Work, and Quantitative Analysis. Her research interests include Race and Ethnic Relations, the Sociology of Education, the Sociology of Work, Inequality, and Public Policy. Her dissertation, entitled: “The multiple personal costs of discrimination: A qualitative analysis of differential mental health outcomes,” explores the personal and behavioral consequences of employment discrimination. She is a former American Association for Higher Education Hispanic Caucus Fellow, an American Sociological Association Minority Fellow, and received a National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Exemplary Diversity Scholar Citation. She has presented scholarly papers at national conferences including the Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association and the Southern Sociological Society meetings.


Glynnis Johnson

Glynnis M. Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow in the Marketing Department in the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU). She received her Ph.D. in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in December 2008. She also holds a M.A. in Advertising from UT, a B.A. in Business Administration from Dillard University and a Certificate in Film from NYU.

Glynnis's research interests are advertising and society, creativity in advertising, and multicultural advertising and marketing. Her dissertation was entitled, "Consumers' Perceptions of the Ethics and Acceptability of Product Placement in Movies: Anglo Americans and African Americans." She plans to extend the multicultural product placement study to include Asian Americans and Hispanic Americans during her fellowship at NYU.

Prior to entering the Advertising Doctoral Program at UT, Glynnis worked as an Art Director and Copywriter in the advertising industry. Her dedication to racial diversity in advertising led her to start African Americans in Advertising (AAIA), a non-profit organization for professionals in advertising and related industries. She has and continues to volunteer with various professional advertising organizations that promote racial diversity in advertising.


Imani Johnson

Dr. Imani Kai Johnson received her bachelor's from UC Berkeley in 1998, where she majored in English and Economics and minored in African American Studies. She went on to earn a Master of Arts at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, focusing on African American and Afro-Caribbean Literature and History, having completed a Master's thesis on African diasporic carnival cultures. She has just completed her PhD in American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California where she continued her work on African diasporic performance practices. The dissertation analyzed "cyphers" -- spontaneous and improvisational dance circles in b-boying (breakdancing) culture. Titled, "Dark Matter in B-Boying Cyphers: Race and Global Connection in Hip Hop," this work considers the cultural and performative dimensions of Hip Hop as a global phenomenon through the microcosm of cyphers and the invisible yet influential forces described by informants that hold them together. The concept of "dark matter" becomes a metaphor for this substantive, unseen force, as well as a metaphor for the often unseen dimensions of African diasporic influences on cyphering. Dr. Johnson has received research and writing support from the Irvine Foundation (2003-2008), the Scholar-in-Residence program at The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY Hunter College (2005), the University of Southern California Urban and Global Studies Summer Fellowship (2005), and the Ford Dissertation Fellowship (2008-2009). She is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Performance Studies.