Dr. Sandra Mayo
Integrating Multiculturalism into the Curriculum
Wed. March 10, 2010
Commons Lecture Hall
7pm
Dr. Sandra M. Mayo, Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas State University-San Marcos since 2001, has taught at several colleges and universities in the U.S. Her work as Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies includes managing a minor in diversity and women’s studies, co-curricular multicultural events, and a resource area with a variety of multicultural titles. She is the director of the Women and Gender Research Collaborative and serves on the Editorial Board of its Journal of Research on Women and Gender. She is in her second year as a member of board of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME). In addition, she is the director of Texas State’s Multicultural Curriculum Transformation and Research Institute, now in its sixth year.
Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodriguez
Racial Reconciliation and the Church: Forgiveness with Justice
Thurs. March 11, 2010
Commons Lecture Hall
7 pm
Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Systematic
Theology, with a secondary appointment in International Studies, in the
Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis,
Missouri. He is currently the director of the Mev Puleo Scholarship Program,
a two-month immersion experience in Nicaragua for theology majors studying
liberation theology, and is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), serving on the Dismantling Racism and
Privilege Committee of the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy. His first
monograph, "Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective", was published by
New York University Press in 2008.
