BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Members of the Board of Directors serve staggered four-year terms, except for the graduate student representative, who serves a two-year term. Board members must attend two meetings a year: one at the annual conference in the Spring and one in the Fall. Between meetings, each Board member is expected to serve on committees and to further the business of NAES throughout the year. Candidates for the Board must have been NAES members for at least one year prior to serving.

Elections to the Board occur as terms end. We encourage anyone interested in serving to self-nominate or recommend others to the Secretary.

Serving on an NAES standing committee is excellent preparation for Board service, and offers a significant way to serve the organization. Nearly all of the standing committees welcome non-Board members to contribute. To inquire about serving on an NAES committee, please contact the chair of the committee in which you are interested. You can find that information on the NAES Committees page.

Members of the Board of Directors (terms end at the annual conference in the year indicated in parentheses):

Kenneth P. Monteiro

Kenneth P. Monteiro

Board Member
Dr. Kenneth P. Monteiro is the Dean of the College of the College of Ethnic Studies, the only College of Ethnic Studies in the nation; former University Dean of Human Relations; and, Professor and former chair of the Psychology Department at San Francisco State University. Before teaching at San Francisco State, he was on faculty...
David Aliano

David Aliano

Associate Editor, Ethnic Studies Review
David Aliano is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and History and is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. He earned his Ph.D. and M. Phil. Degrees at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York...
Susan Asai

Susan Asai

Chair, Membership
Susan Asai is an associate professor of ethnomusicology in the Music Department at Northeastern University in Boston. Her current area of research and writing is the nexus of music, identity, and cultural politics. Her most recent scholarship is a book entitled Sounding Our Way Home: Japanese American Musicking and the Politics of Identity. Other areas...
Natchee Barnd

Natchee Barnd

Secretary
Natchee Blu Barnd is assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies at Oregon State University.  Dr. Barnd earned a PhD and MA in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego, an MA in American Indian Studies from UCLA, and a BA in both American Multicultural Studies and Philosophy from Sonoma State University. Natchee is...
Craig M. Cook

Craig M. Cook

Board Member
Craig M. Cook is a Professor/Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, California where he teaches courses in Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicano/a Studies, and specialized courses in Ethnic Studies (U.S. Immigration History and Racism in America). Professor Cook received a B.A. in World History and Ethnic...
David Hamilton Golland

David Hamilton Golland

Treasurer
David Hamilton Golland, the author of Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011) is Assistant Professor of History at Governors State University outside Chicago, Illinois. He holds a PhD in United States History from the City University of New York and an MA in American History from...
Jesus Jaime-Diaz

Jesus Jaime-Diaz

Graduate Student Representative
Jesus Jaime-Diaz is from the rural community of Hermiston, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest, with cultural roots in the regions of Nayarit & Durango Mexico. He is currently a PhD student in Language, Reading & Culture with a minor in Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Teaching, Learning &...
Joon Kim

Joon Kim

Co-Chair, Awards Committee
Dr. Joon K. Kim is associate professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University. His research focuses on the politics of race and culture both in the U.S. and in Asia. Some of his articles appear in the following journals: Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Asian Pacific Migration Journal;...
Ravi K. Perry

Ravi K. Perry

President; Associate Editor, Ethnic Studies Review
A native of Toledo, Ohio, Dr. Ravi K. Perry holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University, each in political science.  Perry is Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. Perry’s broad research interests focus on an evolving and prolific take on issues facing African-­Americans in...
Ron Scapp

Ron Scapp

Editor, Ethnic Studies Review; Immediate Past President
Ron Scapp is the founding director of the Graduate Program of Urban and Multicultural Education at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in the Bronx where he is professor of humanities and teacher education. He has served as director of program development at the College, and acting executive director of Institutional Assessment and Strategic Planning....
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean

Board Member
Dr. Khalilah L. Brown-Dean is a nationally-known and respected expert on the political dynamics surrounding the American criminal justice system. She is featured in the CPTV documentary, “The Color of Justice,” and serves on the Board of Directors for Prison Policy Initiative; a non-partisan, non-profit organization that documents the impact of mass incarceration on communities...
Melvin T. Peters

Melvin T. Peters

Board Member
Dr. Melvin T. Peters is an Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan, where he has taught since 1992. He has taught previously at: Wayne County Community College, Michigan State University, and in the public schools of Detroit, MI and Columbus, OH.   He holds a B.A. degree in English and...
Darnell L. Moore

Darnell L. Moore

Board Member
Darnell L. Moore is a Senior Editor at MicNews and Co-Managing/Editor at The Feminist Wire. Along with NFL player Wade Davis II, he co-founded YOU Belong, a social good company focused on the development of diversity initiatives. Darnell’s advocacy centers on marginal identity, youth development and other social justice issues in the U.S. and abroad. He has led and participated in...
Maricela DeMirjyn

Maricela DeMirjyn

Board Member
Dr. Maricela DeMirjyn is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies & the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research at Colorado State University. Her doctorate was completed at University of California, Santa Barbara in Cultural Perspectives and Chicana & Chicano Studies. Dr. DeMirjyn has a MA in Women’s Studies with an emphasis...
Marne L. Campbell

Marne L. Campbell

Board Member
Marne L. Campbell is an Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in the department of African American Studies. Her manuscript about race and gender in early Los Angeles, entitled Arrival and Revival in the American West: African Americans through the Lens of Race, Class, and Gender in Los Angeles (1850 – 1915) is currently under...