Dr. Victor Hinojosa
The Most Segregated Hour in America
Dr. Victor Hinojosa described the racial divide in the United States and the American church and explored why the church is even more segregated than other American institutions. Blending insights from the academic literature with humor and pastoral anecdotes, Hinojosa suggested that there are resources in the church for overcoming even the divide of race.
Dr. Victor J. Hinojosa is Assistant Professor of Political Science in
the Honors Program at Baylor University. He earned a B.A. in economics
with a minor in philosophy from Baylor University and an M.A. and Ph.D.
in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame (2003). Dr.
Hinojosa's primary research and teaching is in Latin American Politics
and U.S.-Latin American relations. He also has research interests in
religion and politics, both empirically (how religion shapes political
attitudes) and normatively (how Christians should think about
international relations). His book, Domestic Politics and International
Narcotics Control, was published by Routledge in 2007, and his articles
have appeared in Political Science Quarterly, the Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion, Terrorism and Political Violence, and the
Mennonite Quarterly Review.
Kimberly Huyser
Native Fruition: Inequality and American Indian Perseverance
Kimberly grew up in Window Rock, Arizona, which is the political capital of the Navajo Nation and attended Window Rock public high school. Growing up on the reservation, Kimberly witnessed firsthand the economic disadvantage faced by her family, but also the systematic inequality faced by the Navajo people. Through witnessing the struggles of her peers and relatives, she learned to see the structural inequality that confronts American Indian people and to appreciate the protective role of Native American families and communities. Kimberly’s research focuses on understanding how American Indian communities and families provide resources to overcome and resist social problems and how these resources may contribute to the persistent and cohesive American Indian ethnic group and ethnic identity.
Kimberly R. Huyser is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Graduate Student Trainee at the Population Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin and also received a B.A. in Sociology from Calvin College in 2003. Kimberly's research specializations are in Racial and Ethnic Relations and Sociology and Demography of Native Americans. Kimberly is an American Sociological Association Minority Fellow, which is funded by a training grant sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Kimberly has also been a National Science Foundation Graduate Diversity Fellow, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Pre-doctoral Trainee, Navajo Nation Chief Manuelito Scholar, and Calvin College Graduate Study Fellow.