CSRPC Directory: 2006-2007 Resident Fellows

Angéline Escafré-Dublet, Visiting Fellow

Angéline Escafré-Dublet is a visiting fellow with a France Chicago Center Exchange Fellowship. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Sciences Po, Paris. Her dissertation examines immigrant policies in France and the State’s response to immigrants’ culture in the second half of the Twentieth Century. She explores the colonial heritage of administrative practices directed at immigrant culture and the gradual acknowledgement of cultural diversity by the French government. Her work pertains to the field of ethnic relations in France and includes some comparative perspective with the United States. Part of her research deals with the building of cultural policies towards ethnic minorities and the construction of integration models in North America and Europe.

Jennifer Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She is author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2002) and co-editor of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (with Min Zhou, Routledge, 2004), which was named the 2006 Outstanding Book Award from the Asia and Asian America Section of the American Sociological Association. In 2003, she received the Robert E. Park Best Scholarly Article Award from the American Sociological Association’s Community and Urban Sociology Section and Honorable Mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award from the International Migration Section. She has also been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. She is currently working on two research projects that stem from her theoretical interests in the intersection of race, ethnicity, and immigration. The first examines how immigration and racial/ethnic diversity affect multiracial identification. Using data from the 2000 Census combined with in-depth interviews, she and Frank D. Bean study the way in which interracial couples identify their children and multiracial adults negotiate their identities. She is also working with Min Zhou on a study of multifaceted experiences of immigrant and intergenerational mobility in Los Angeles.

Sean T. Mitchell is a Ph.D. candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is currently writing his dissertation, Relaunching Alcântara: Space, Race, Technology and Inequality in Brazil, an ethnographic study of the conflicts surrounding Brazil’s principal satellite launching base. Sean lived for nearly two years in the villages threatened by the base’s expansion and worked closely with the quilombo movement—which is mobilizing villagers around the land-rights granted in Brazil’s constitution to escaped-slave descended communities. Through this case, Sean analyzes the ways in which race, citizenship, techno-military development, and political consciousness are changing in contemporary Brazil. In addition to Brazil, Sean has conducted research in the Peruvian Amazon and also plans to study the United States. Sean’s key theoretical concern is political consciousness, and the many different ways in which groups of people can come to interpret (and act upon) social inequality.

Coya Paz is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Teatro Luna, Chicago's first and only Latina theater company. She is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, where she also holds her MA. Her dissertation, A Changing Lynchocracy: Lynching and the Performance of American Identities, examines the relationship between immigration, citizenship, and public violence. As a director/writer/performer, Coya is committed to using original ensemble based performance as a way of building relationships between people and communities. Directing credits include: S-e-x-Oh! and The Maria Chronicles (with Tanya Saracho), Quita Mitos, Machos, The Drag King Rooftop Hootchie Cootchie No-Name Show and Musical Latin Extravaganza, The Dress and A Tale of Two Kidneys (part of the Solo Latinas projects). Original performance credits include: S-e-x-Oh, The Maria Chronicles, Dejame Contarte, Generic Latina, Drums on the Dam, and Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches' Hammer). Coya is a founder of Proyecto Latina, a free open-mic project based in Pilsen, and was named one of UR Magazine’s 30 under 30 in 2004.