Professor Candice Lowe is from Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.A. from Fisk University and her Ph.D from Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Lowe spent a year at the University of Virginia, as a pre-doctoral fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute in 2004. She is also a former Fulbright scholar. Read More
Light Carruyo received her B.A. from Oberlin College in Women’s Studies and Sociology and her Ph.D. in Sociology from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary areas of research are the gendered and racial dimensions of nation building and economic development. Her teaching interests center on social justice and include race and racism in global context, Latina/os in the Americas, gender and development, globalization, and critical qualitative methods. Read More
Quincy Mills earned his B.S from the University of Illinois at Urbana (1997), his M.B.A. from DePaul University (2004), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2006). His research focuses on African American urban and business history, race and segregation, and social and political movements. He recently completed his dissertation “‘Color-Line’ Barbers and the Emergence of a Black Public Space: A Social and Political History of Black Barbers and Barber Shops, 1850-1970." Read More
Born in the Phillipines and raised in San Francisco, CA, Jay Carreon received his Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry at the University of Southern California, Santa Cruz. After taking a few years off, working for the pharmaceutical industry, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Boston College. His thesis was entitled ‘Synthesis of Fluorescent peptide conjugates and applications as DNA-binding and cellular probes.’ Read More
Professor Moon, born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University and began teaching Social Studies courses in the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Honors Program at Harvard in 1994. Shortly afterward, she was offered a full-time position at Vassar. Read More