Race and Ethnicity

Professor & Institution	Expertise	Background Facts	Contact
Dr. Nancy Heitzeg, Professor, Sociology Dept. and Director of the Interdisciplinary program, Critical Studies of Race / Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine	Heitzeg has written and presented widely on the subjects of race, class, gender and social movements / social change. She has been involved in extensive research on campus climate for diversity at the college-level, color-blind racism in policy and practice, and strategies for curricular and co-curricular change.	Heitzeg is the author of Deviance: Rule-makers and Rule-breakers, and most recently, “The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex,” with Dr. Rose Brewer. That piece appears in a special volume of American Behavioral Scientist: Micro-Level Social Justice Projects, Pedagogy, and Democratic Movements, Winter 2008, (co-edited by Dr. Heitzeg and Dr. Rodney Coates).	Julie Michener, Media Relations Manager, 651-690-6521, 651-253-8931 (cell), jcmichener@stkate.edu
Jane Rhodes, Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, American Studies, Macalester College	Rhodes' research interests include race and mass media and African American history and culture.	She is a former newspaper and radio reporter and producer. Rhodes is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Her forthcoming book is Framing the Panthers: Media, Race, and Representation in America. She is also the author of a number of articles on race, journalism and mass communication. B.A., Syracuse University, 1977; M.A., Syracuse University, 1984; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1992. Rhodes has been at Macalester since 2005.	Barbara Laskin, Media Relations, Macalester College, (651) 696-6451, laskin@macalester.edu, Web site

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