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Dr. Steve Alexander - Senior Research Fellow |
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Phone: (312) 362-6536
E-mail:
dillyma2003@Yahoo.com |
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As
a Senior Research Associate for the Egan Center, Dr. Alexander
works on a variety of policy-based research and advocacy
activities involving social justice and equity issues that
affect low- and moderate-income individuals, families and
communities. Before joining the Egan Center, he was Director of
the Center for Urban Politics and Policy (CUPP) at Chicago State
University and previously worked in the Chicago Urban League’s (CUL)
Research and Advocacy Departments during a period when
policy-based research and an advocacy process were major
features of CUL’s agenda. He previously was a deputy
commissioner for the Chicago Department of Economic Development
under Mayor Harold Washington. There he was responsible for
developing mayoral-appointed industry task forces and evaluating
and analyzing the effectiveness of economic development programs
and policies affecting low- and moderate-income residents and
communities in Chicago. He also worked as a steelworker for
several years and was active with the United Steelworkers of
America Union and the Civil Rights Committee.
Dr. Alexander holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in
economics, and a Ph.D. in urban planning and policy, all from
the University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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Dr. John Koval - Senior Faculty Fellow |
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Phone: (773) 325-4434
E-mail: jkoval@depaul.edu |
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Dr. Koval represented EUC in the partnership with Institute for
Latino Studies on the recently completed "An Assessment of the
Needs and Assets of the Latino Community in Berwyn Cicero,
Illinois." He is currently working with Michael Bennett on
several research initiatives and co editing a book, The New
Chicago that examines changes in the city over the past 35 40
years that have resulted in "A New Chicago." John is also a
professor and former chair of the Sociology Department, DePaul.
He has a Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University in Seattle,
Washington, an MA and /Ph D from the University of Oregon in
Eugene. |
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Dr. Black Hawk Hancock - Senior Faculty Fellow |
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Phone: (773) 325-4920
E-mail: bhancock@depaul.edu |
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Black Hawk Hancock received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently a Visiting
Assistant Professor at DePaul University. He will begin a tenure
track position here at DePaul starting this coming fall.
His research explores how stratification works along racial and
cultural lines. His past research, as well as new projects he is
currently undertaking, uncover how practices of everyday life
serve as mechanisms for upholding or undermining stratification
and inequality in contemporary society. By identifying these
mechanisms through ethnographic immersion, he exposes how
everyday practices and embodied subjectivities are connected to
the larger societal organization of economic/social/cultural
capitals in institutionalizing social stratification. In his
dissertation, entitled “American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the
Racial Imagination,” he engaged a fundamental contradiction in
American society—African-American culture continues to be
symbolically central in American culture, while
African-Americans remain economically and politically
marginalized—through a multi-method urban ethnography that
examined the dance worlds of the Lindy Hop and Steppin’, both in
the city of Chicago. He has recently published articles in
Ethnography on Steppin’ and in Qualitative Sociology on Carnal
Sociology. He is currently completing a book on the cultural and
racial politics of the social world of dance entitled American
Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination.
His current research project, in collaboration with Senior
Faculty Fellow at the EUC John Koval, aims to understand social
stratification by race and class through studying the economic
mobility of Mexican immigrants in Chicago’s restaurant industry.
This work challenges the two dominant social science paradigms
of explanation, skill/spatial mismatch and economic
restructuring, and instead offers an alternative model of
“creative-adaptation” to explain how a significant portion of
immigrant Mexicans in metropolitan Chicago have transformed food
service into a Mexican industrial niche, while also attaining
occupational mobility within the industry. Their research seeks
to identify the processes and mechanisms whereby many immigrant
Mexicans have transformed their economic well-being from low
income and underpaid workers to middle income and stable
economic positions with clear occupationally-linked mobility
paths. As a result, this project proposes to identify both the
micro and macro dynamics contributing to this transformation in
the face of the growing information-based high technology /
service sector hourglass shaped bifurcation of the economy.
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Dr. Helen "HQ" Quan - Visiting Scholar |
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School of Justice & Social Inquiry
Arizona State University
Wilson Hall, 3RD Floor
P.O. Box 870403, Tempe, AZ 85287-0403
Phone: (480)-965-7682
E-mail: hq2005@gmail.com |
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Helen L. T. Quan, PhD came to DePaul from the Urban Studies
Program of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest. Dr. Quan
holds a Ph. D. in political science from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. She has taught in Black studies,
political science, urban studies and women’s studies. Dr. Quan
has conducted field research in Brazil, South Africa and Chicago
on questions about Third World development, globalization and
alternatives to neo-liberal economic thought and practices.
Currently, her research centers on race, resistance and
democratic living in the age of globalism. She is currently
working on a book about race, social movements and global
Chicago. Dr. Quan is also a member of a new, collaborative
research project with Darryl C. Thomas (SUNY Binghamton, NY) and
Marcus D. Allen (Whitman College, Boston MA) entitled, Economic
New Jacks: Globalization, African American Entrepreneurship and
Capital Formation in Chicago, New York City, Detroit, Atlanta
and Los Angeles. Her articles have appeared in Social
Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture,
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, and Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society. In fall 2005, Quan became an
assistant professor in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry
at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Dr. Quan’s community activism focuses on issues ranging from
media and democracy and the prison industrial complex to
economic and political empowerment. She was a blues disc jockey
as well as public affairs programmer for over fifteen years. A
regular correspondent on Third World News Review, the longest
running, live, weekly cable access TV news program in Santa
Barbara (CA), Dr. Quan also co-produced/Hosted No Alibi’s, a
live weekly public affairs radio program on KCSB FM in Santa
Barbara. She is a co-founder of the Lizard’s Mouth Media
Collective, an affiliate of the World Association of Community
Radio Broadcasters (AMACR) and a collective dedicate to
providing progressive radio programming. She is also a
co-founder of QUAD Productions, a production company dedicated
to producing progressive media for grassroots organizations and
individual activists committed to progressive social change. Dr.
Quan is also a member of the New Chicago School. |
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