2015 Northeastern IGR Conference
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
June 7-10, 2015
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SYLVIA HURTADO
Sylvia Hurtado is a professor in the Graduate School of Education and Information
Studies and director of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University
of California at Los Angeles. She has written more than 100 publications that focus
on student development in college, sociology of education and diversity in higher
education. Hurtado is known for her publications on campus climate as it affects different
racial/ethnic groups, and is the co-author of Enacting Diverse Learning Environments (Jossey-Bass), Intergroup Dialogue (University of Michigan Press) and Defending Diversity (University of Michigan Press).
Dr. Hurtado served as 2005 President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education
(ASHE). Black Issues in Higher Education (Diverse magazine) named Hurtado among the Top 15 Influential Faculty, an honor bestowed on
academicians who personify scholarship, service and integrity and whose work has had
substantial impact on the academy. Hurtado has conducted several national projects
on diverse learning environments and retention, diversification of the scientific
workforce, preparing students for a diverse democracy and innovation in undergraduate
education. Hurtado hails from San Antonio, Texas, and earned degrees from Princeton
in sociology (A.B), the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.) and UCLA (Ph.D.
in education).
JOE FEAGIN
Joe Feagin is the Ella McFadden Professor in Sociology at Texas A&M University, and
past president of the American Sociological Association (ASA, 1999–2000). Feagin was
born in San Angelo, Texas, and raised in Houston, and received degrees from Baylor
(A.B. history/philosophy) and Harvard University (B.D. social ethics; Ph.D. social
relations/sociology). Over his career, Dr. Feagin has served faculty appointments
at the University of California at Riverside, the University of Texas and the University
of Florida, and from 1974 to 1975 as the scholar-in-residence at the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights.
Well-known for his work in the areas of racial and ethnic relations, racism theory
and gender, Feagin is the author or co-author of more than 200 research articles and
monographs and nearly 70 books, including Racist America (Routledge, 3rd edition), The White Racial Frame (Routledge, 2nd edition), Liberation Sociology (Paradigm, 3rd edition) and The Agony of Education of Education: Black Students at White College and Universities (Routledge). His 1973 book with Harlan Hahn, Ghetto Revolts (Macmillan) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Living with Racism (Beacon Press, with M. Sikes) won the 1995 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Human
Rights Book Award, an honor he achieved again in 1996 for White Racism: The Basics (Routledge, with H. Vera). Among numerous honors, Dr. Feagin is the 2013 recipient
of the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, bestowed by the American
Sociological Association.