School of Social Transformation Launched Oct. 7
On October 7, the official launch ceremony of our new school featured speakers: Dean Quentin Wheeler, ASU President Michael Crow, Dean Linda Lederman and Director Mary Margaret Fonow.
Following a reception, a distinguished panel discussed, "Gender, Race and Justice." Included was Mark Anthony Neal, professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American studies at Duke University. Neal has written four books including most recently "New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity." Joining him on the panel was Celine Parrenas Shimizu, professor at University of California/Santa Barbara and Visiting Faculty Fellow at Stanford this year. Shimizu is a filmmaker and film scholar in Asian American Film and Media and Feminist Studies. She has recently completed "Birthright," her fifth experimental ethnographic film, about mothering across difference. FInd out more about the event in the ASU news story.
- Quentin Wheeler, Vice President and Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University
- Linda Lederman, Dean of Social Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Mary Margaret Fonow, Director, School of Social Transformation
- Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African American Studies, Duke University
- Celine Parrenas Shimizu, professor of Asian American, Film and Media and Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
