Ethan Johnson Curriculum Vitae

Education

Assistant Professor                Portland State University                                           2005 - present

                                                College of Letters and Science

                                                Black Studies Department

Adjunct Professor                 University of San Francisco                                        Spring 2005

                                                Multicultural and International

                                                Education Department,

                                                California

Graduate Student Reader    University of California, Berkeley                              Spring 2004

                                                Department of Sociology

Graduate Student                 University of California, Berkeley,                             2000-2001

Instructor                               Graduate School of Education

Public School Teacher          Oakland Unified School District,                               1996-1999

                                                Castlement High School,

                                                Oakland California

Public School Teacher          San Leandro Unified School District,                        1995-1996

                                                Lincoln High Continuation School,

                                                San Leandro, California

Spanish Teacher                    Showa Women's University,                                      1993-1995

                                                Tokyo, Japan

The Unfulfilled Promise of Equality: Race, Identity and Schooling in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region (May 2005)

Committee: Professors Jabari Mahiri, Chair

Books

Freeman, K. & Johnson, E. Eds. (Contract with Routledge Press).  Black Populations Globally: Educational Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects for People of African Descent Worldwide.  Anticipated completion: Spring 2011.

Refereed Journal Articles

Johnson, E. & William, F. (2010). Desegregation and Multiculturalism in the Portland Public Schools in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Spring 2010, 6-37.

Johnson, E. (2009). The Representation of Murals and Statues in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region. Souls, Nov-Dec. 2009, Vol. 11, No. 4, 365-388.

Johnson, E. (2009). Student and Teacher Negotiations of Racial Identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region. International Journal of Qualitative Studied in Education, Sept-Oct 2009, Vol. 22, No. 5, 563-584.

Johnson, E. (2009). Schooling as a Regime of Equality and Reproducing Difference in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region. Ethnography of Education, March 2009, Vol. 4, No. 1, 147-164.

Johnson, E. (2007). Blackness, Identity and Schooling in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Race, Ethnicity and Education, March 2007, Vol. 10, No. 1, 47-70.

Johnson, E. & Brown, E. (Under Review). Social Capital as an Indicator of Community Mental Health.  Journal of Creativity in Mental Health.

Johnson, E. (Invited Submission) Oregon’s Role in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement. Oregon Historical Quarterly. Anticipated completion: Winter 2011.

Johnson, E & William, F. (Invited Submission) Introduction to Special Section to Oregon Historical Quarterly.

Refereed Book Chapters

Johnson, E & Hunte, R. (Forthcoming) Race, Sexuality and the Media: The demotion of Portland, Oregon’s Black chief of police. Critical Black Studies Book Series, Palgrave MacMillian.

Freeman, K. & Johnson, E. (Contract with Routledge) Introduction and Conclusion to Black Populations Globally: Educational Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects for People of African Descent Worldwide. Completed.

Johnson, E. (Contract with Routledge) Race, Nation and Schooling in Esmeraldas, Ecuador in Black Populations Globally: Educational Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects for People of African Descent Worldwide by Kassie Freeman and Ethan Johnson (Editors). Completed.

Book Reviews

Johnson, E. (2007).  Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology April 2007, Vol. 12, No. 1, 459-462.  Book title: I Won’t Stay Indian, I’ll Keep Studying by Karen Stocker.

            Non-Refereed Articles

Johnson, E. (2006). What Does Martin Luther King Day Mean to Me? Vanguard, Portland State University Student Newspaper, February.

Blackness and Multicultural Education in Ecuador: Its origin, philosophy and challenges. Anticipated completion: Spring 2011.

The Educational Experiences of African American Youth in the Only State to be Excepted into the Union with an Exclusion Law.  Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011.

Johnson, E. (2010). Blackness and Multicultural Education in Ecuador: Its origins, philosophy and challenges. Paper accepted for presentation in the Education, Pedagogy, and Educational Policies track at the Latin American Studies Association Conference in Toronto, Canada, October 2010.

Johnson, E. (2010). Race, Sexuality and the Media.  Paper presented at the Feminist Pedagogy, Diversity and Social Justice Education Symposium at Portland State University April 16, 2010. 

Johnson, E. (2009). Student and Teacher Negotiations of Racial Identity in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region. Paper accepted as part of the Racial Identity and Education panel at Comparative and International Education Society's 53rd Annual Conference, Charleston, South Carolina from March 22 - 26, 2009.

Johnson, E. (2008). Popular Art and Blackness in the City of Esmeraldas, Ecuador: Contesting the Racial Hierarchy(?). Presentation at the Faculty Favorite Lecture Series sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center at PSU. 

Johnson, E. (2008). Popular Art and Blackness in the City of Esmeraldas, Ecuador: Contesting the Racial Hierarchy. Paper accepted as part of the panel “Dismantling Racial and Textual Purities in Caribbean and Latin American Cultural Production” at the First Race, Ethnicity and Indigenous Peoples Conference, University of California, San Diego May 2008.

Johnson, E. (2007). Identity, Whiteness and Racial-Mixture in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region.  Paper accepted as part of the panel “Multiracial Identity: Current Theoretical & Empirical Research” at the Pacific Sociological Association Conference April, 2007, Oakland, California.

Johnson, E. (2007). Blackness, Identity and Schooling in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region (Invited Presentation). Paper Presentation at the Facultad Latina Americana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO). March 2007, Quito, Ecuador.

Johnson, E. (2006). The Unfulfilled Promise of Equality, Blackness Identity and schooling in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.  Paper accepted as part of the panel “Race and Education in Latin America” at the Latin American Studies Association October 2006 Conference, Puerto Rico.

Johnson, E. (2006). Blackness, Identity and Schooling in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Paper accepted as part of the panel “Blackness and Identity Politics” at the Center for Urban Education Conference 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Johnson, E. (2004). . Race, Nation and Schooling in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region. Paper presented at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education Research Day, November 2004.

Johnson, E. (2004). Race, Nation and Schooling in a Afro-Ecuadorian Region (2004). Paper presented at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2004.

Johnson, E. (2003). Student Perceptions and Negotiations of Practices of Racial Inequality and Prejudice.  Paper presentation at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Mexico City, Mexico in October-November 2003.

Johnson, E. (2003). Not All Blacks are Black: Student Orientations towards Whiteness in Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Paper Presentation at the Ford Fellows Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico in October 2003.

Johnson, E. Race, Nation and Schooling in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region: A Review of the Literature (2002). Paper Presentation at the St. Claire Drake Cultural  studies Forum           at U.C. Berkeley in March 2002.

Johnson, E. (2001). Community, Schools and Ethnic Violence. Paper Presentation at Graduate School of Education Alumni Meeting
of the University of California at Berkeley, February 2001.

Johnson, E. (2000). Hand in Hand: Community and School Factors that Contribute to Interracial Conflict. Round table presentation at the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000.

Academic Recognition

Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship May 2007. $40,000.00.

Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2003-Spring 2004. $25,000.00.

Funded Research Grants

Reducing Risk Behaviors by Promoting Positive Youth Development (R03), PA-08-242. Submission Date: 10/16/10.  Principle Investigators: Ethan Johnson and Yves Labissiere. Amount applied for: 100,000.00 (Under Review).

Reducing Health Disparities Among Minority and Underserved Children (R21), PA-07-391. Submission Date: 10/17/08. Principle Investigators: Ethan Johnson and Yves Labissiere. Amount applied for: 275,000.00 (Not awarded).

Portland State University Research Stimulus Program Grant, December 2009.  $5000.00.

Portland State University Faculty Enhancement Research and Teaching Grant, May 2008. $4000.00.

Portland State University Faculty Enhancement Research and Teaching Grant May 2007. $6500.00.

Portland State University Diversity Scholarship 2005-06. 1,500.00.

Portland State University Internationalization Mini-Grant 2005-06.  $500.00.

Humanities Research Grant of the Graduate Fellowships Office, University of California Berkeley, Summer 2000.  $4,000.00.

Spencer Research Fellowship of the Graduate School of Education for 2000-01 Academic Year.  $10,000.00.

            Mentoring

Committee Member of a Masters Thesis entitled: “If You Are Light, You Are Alright; If You Are Black, Step Back: A Study on the Intra-psychic Effects of Skin Tone in Black Males at Portland State University and its Implication on Intra-racial Conflict” by Christopher Potts (2009).

Committee Member of a Masters Thesis entitled: “Race in Bandeirante Historiography, 1638-1934” by Cameron Nimmo, History Department (2008).

Committee Member of a Doctoral Thesis entitled: Factors Influencing the Pursuit of Scholarships by African American Males: A Focus on the Washington Achievers Scholarship Program by Jesse Welch, School of Education (2007).

Committee Member of a Masters Thesis entitled: "How I Learned I Was on the Outside Looking in: Exploring the Achievement Gap for Immigrant and Second Generation Mexican-American Students in New Gateways” by Erin Michaels, Department of Sociology (2007).

Committee Member of a Masters Thesis entitled: “You Do Not Understand the Scantron: How Do Race and Class Impact Student to Teacher Conflict in the Classroom?” by Roberta Hunte, Conflict Resolution Department (2007).

            Curricular

            Developed and successfully proposed the new course Race and Ethnicity in Latin             America BST 325U (2009). 

            Developed and successfully proposed for “U” cluster designation the course African         American Urban Problems in Education BST 416U.

Host and Organizer of the Black Bag Speaker Series at Portland State University, 2006- present. The Black bag Speaker Series is an effort to develop a forum for people and organizations doing work that addresses issues related to the community of Black people in Portland, Oregon. Throughout the academic year we invite various local and national organizations and individuals to Portland State University to speak to the PSU community about the work they do.

Black Bag Events:

New School Initiative, May 2010. Addressed the initiative to create a school of Ethnic Studies at PSU. Chairs/Directors from respective departments spoke on the development/challenges of process. 

Environmental Justice, March 2010.  Four panelists from various local state and community organizations presented on the relationship between local environmental issues and racial inequality.

Rooney Rule, February 2010.  Sam Sachs the key initiator of the Oregon legislative bill that requires minorities to be interviewed for athletic coaching positions at Oregon state universities spoke on his role in bringing the Rooney Rule to fruition. 

Friends of Black Studies, February 2010.  Black studies Alumni spoke to kick off the Black Studies forty year celebration.

Urban League, November 2009.  Marcus Mundy, the CEO of the Urban League spoke about the recent State of Black Oregon report released by the Urban league

Adam Bradley, June 2009. Spoke about his recent book called The Poetics of Hip Hop.

Black United Front May 2009.  Four previous members of the Black United Front of Portland, Oregon spoke about their involvement in the organization.

Politics and Culture, November 2008.  A New York based Puerto Rican hip-hop band and political organization spoke about Puerto Rico’s relationship to the United States.

More Than a Slave, May 2008.  Hannah Hurdle Toomey, who is one of the last living descendants of a slave, spoke about her book she is writing that documents the life of her father. 

Race and the Media in Portland, Oregon, February 2008.  Various local journalists spoke to the issue of the sexual harassment case against Derrick Foxworth.

Racial Profiling in Portland, Oregon, October 2007.  Derrick Foxworth and Joann Bowman addressed the recent report released demonstrating the Portland Police Department is racial profiling. 

Blackness and Education in Portland Oregon, December 2007.  Three members of local community organizations addressed racial inequality in education in Portland, Oregon.

History of the Black Panther Party in Portland, Oregon, April 2007.  Three former Portland Black Panther members talked about their role in the organization. 

African Immigration in Portland, Oregon, March 2007.  Three local community activists addressed African immigrant issues in Portland, Oregon. 

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, October 2006.  Dr. Joy Leary discussed her book.

Senator Avel Gordly Lecture Entitled:"No Human Being is Illegal: From the Perspective of One Oregonian", October 2006.

Dr. Yasmin Ramirez lecture entitled: “The iconography of Black and Puerto Rican Art Movements, 1960s-1980s: A comparative study of arts activism and social change in New York City during the post civil rights era”, May 2006.

Sex, Drugs and Health in Portland, Oregon, February 2006. Two local community activists spoke to the issue of AIDS in the Black community in Portland, Oregon. 

Police Brutality and Gentrification in North East Portland, April 2006.  Two members of Portland’s Ministerial Alliance spoke to the issue of police violence in Portland, Oregon. 

Daughter of former slave a link to those who prevail, March 2006.  Hannah Hurdle Toomey spoke about her experience as the daughter of slave. 

Other Community Outreach Activities

African Film Festival Panel Member at Portland Community College Cascade Campus; Topic: Blackness in Latin America, November 2005.

Martin Luther King Article for the Vanguard Portland State University Student Newspaper, February 2006.

Interview for Radio Station KBOO; Show: Africa On Fire; Topic: Blackness in Latin America, May 2006.

Portland Teachers Program Presentation entitled “Schooling and Segregation in Portland, Oregon”, Cascade Community College, April 2006. 

Chair of the Curriculum Committee of the Black Studies Department 2008-present.

Committee Member of the Governing Student Affairs Committee, 2008-present.

Hiring Committee for the Director of Student Affairs, Portland State University, Winter Term 2008.

Multicultural Center Advisory Committee Member, October 2007-2008.

Hiring Committee for Assistant Coordinator of the Multi-Cultural Center, November 2005 through April 2006.

Member of the Cultural Contexts of Education and Human Potential Special Interest Group Committee in the International and Comparative Education Society, 2009-present.

Member of the Multnomah County Library Advisory Board beginning July 2008-present.

Member of the Hiring Committee for the position of Director of Multicultural Health for the State of Oregon, Fall 2009. 

Presentation to the Oregon Department of Human Services entitled “Racial and Class Inequality in Oregon”, Salem, November 2007.

Martin Luther King Article for the Vanguard Portland State University Student Newspaper, February 2006.

Interview for Radio Station KBOO; Show: Africa On Fire; Topic: Blackness in Latin America, May 2006.

Black Studies Course Consultant, Grant High School, Portland Public Schools, 2005-2006.

African Film Festival Panel Member at Portland Community College Cascade Campus; Topic: Blackness in Latin America, November 2005.

Presentation to the Portland Teachers Program entitled “Schooling and Segregation in Portland, Oregon”, Cascade Community College, April 2006. 

Reviewed proposals during the week of the 18^th - the 22^nd of September, 2005, for the American Educational Research Association 2006 conference in San Francisco for the International SIG. 

American Educational Research Association

Latin American Studies Association

Pacific Sociological Association