UNEQUAL TREATMENT AND ENFORCEMENT PANELISTS
Dr. Perla M. Guerrero |
Perla M. Guerrero is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the U.S. Latina/o Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research and teaching interests include relational race and ethnicity, history, space and place, immigration and legality, labor and inequality. She has received multiple awards including a Ford Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship that helped her complete her first book, Nuevo South: Latinas/os, Asians, and Remaking of Place, that focuses Vietnamese and Cuban refugees and Mexican immigrants in the late twentieth century. She’s currently working on her second book, Deportation’s Aftermath: Little L.A. and Making a Life in Exile, which seeks to understand how U.S.-based inequality, criminalization, and stigma are reproduced in Mexico after repatriation.
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Dr. Saher SelodSaher Selod is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Simmons University. She joined the Department of Sociology in 2012 after completing her PhD at Loyola University Chicago. Her research interests are in race and ethnicity, gender and religion. Her research examines how Muslim Americans experience racialization in the United States. Her book Forever Suspect: Racialized Surveillance of Muslim Americans in the War on Terror (Rutgers University Press 2018) examines how Muslim men and Muslim women experience gendered forms of racialization through their surveillance by the state and by private citizens. She has published several articles in journals like Sociology Compass, the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, and Ethnic and Racial Studies and Critical Sociology.
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Dr. Joseph Richardson, Jr.Dr. Richardson is the Interim Chair of the African-American Studies Department and the Joel and Kim Feller Endowed Professor of African-American Studies and Anthropology. This endowment supports his research on gun violence and trauma among Black boys and young Black men. Dr. Richardson received his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Rutgers University-School of Criminal Justice and his bachelor's degree in African and African-American Studies from the University of Virginia. He completed a Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Chicago and an NIMH clinical post-doctoral research training fellowship in Substance Use, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS in Correctional Healthcare at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Richardson holds a Joint Appointment in the Department of Anthropology (Medical) and a Secondary Appointment in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Dr. Richardson's research focuses on four specific areas: 1) Gun violence; 2) The intersection of structural violence, interpersonal violence and trauma among Black boys and young Black men; 3) The intersection of the criminal justice and healthcare systems in lives of young Black men; 4) Parenting strategies for low-income Black male youth. Trained as a criminologist and medical anthropologist. Dr. Richardson uses an inter-disciplinary, intersectional and longitudinal qualitative research approach. He is specifically interested in understanding the ways that the healthcare and criminal justice systems intersect and impact the lives of Black male survivors of violence. Dr. Richardson is the Executive Director of the Transformative Research and Applied Violence Intervention Lab (TRAVAIL). This lab uses a multidisciplinary approach integrating behavioral and social science, medicine, public health, social work, law, computer science and the digital humanities to understand gun violence, its causes and collateral consequences, that will inform the development of innovative interventions to reduce gun violence and save lives. |