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Jason Magabo Perez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Program Director
(760) 750-8258 | jmperez@csusm.edu | SBSB 3201
- Jason Magabo Perez BiographyDr. Jason Magabo Perez blends poetry, prose, performance, film/video, ethnography, and oral history to investigate Filipina/o/x American histories, state violence, colonization, migration, memory, and intimacy. Perez is the author of two hybrid collections of prose and poetry: Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016); and This is for the mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017). Perez鈥檚 writing has also appeared in Witness, TAYO, Entropy, and Feminist Wire. Perez has written, developed, and performed three live multimedia performance works: The Passion of El Hulk Hogancito (2009); You Will Gonna Go Crazy (2011), which was commissioned by Kularts, Inc. and funded by a Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; and Blue Bin Improvisations (2018), which was commissioned and presented by MexiCali Biennial and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Formerly a featured artist at the New Americans Museum and community scholar-in-residence at San Diego Public Library, Perez has, for over 15 years, performed, lectured, and convened dialogues, panels, and workshops in public libraries, community centers, and K-12, college, and university classrooms. Perez has performed at notable venues such as the National Asian American Theatre Festival, International Conference of the Philippines, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and La Jolla Playhouse. Alumnus of the VONA Writing Workshops, Perez holds an M.F.A. in Writing and Consciousness from New College of California and a dual Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies and Communication from UC San Diego. Dr. Perez previously served as Assistant Professor of English at CSU San Bernardino (2016-2019) and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at CSU San Marcos.
Christiane Assefa
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies
cassefa@csusm.edu | SBSB 3202
- Christiane Assefa BiographyChristiane Assefa is a community-engaged scholar, educator, and researcher. Bringing together the fields of Black Diaspora Studies and Critical Refugee Studies, her work explores how the life-making practices of East African refugee communities are critical sites of knowledge production and social change. Broadly, Christiane is interested in reproductive justice, histories of Black-led social movements, and border imperialism. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach, she studies landscapes of Black refugee social life through ethnography, archival research, Black visual culture, and oral history鈥攈ighlighting critical narratives about the history and subjectivity of forcibly displaced communities from East Africa.
Ruby Osoria, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies
rosoria@csusm.edu | SBSB 3203
- Ruby Osoria BiographyRuby Osoria, PhD is an assistant professor in the Ethnic Studies Department in the College of Humanities, Arts, Behavioral and Social Sciences at California State University, San Marcos. Dr. Osoria received her PhD in Education: Transforming Education in a Diverse Society with a specialization in Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She holds a master鈥檚 degree in *Social and Cultural Analysis of Education from California State University, Long Beach, a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Sociology with a minor in International Immigration Studies from UCSD, and a Liberal Arts degree from Santa Ana Community College. Her research interest explores educational pathways and access, immigration and education policy, urban communities, community organization/non-profit work on educational (in)equalities, community-based social networks, experiences of Chicanx/Latinx (immigrant) parents and first-generation college students, Chicana feminist epistemology, Latina/o critical race theory, critical race methodologies, and pedagogy.*The Master of Arts in Equity, Education, and Social Justice program (formerly Social and Cultural Analysis of Education) changed its degree title name effective Fall 2023.
- Scholarly and Creative Work
Hemans, P., Lewis, P., & Osoria, R. (2020). The dual invisibility of mother-scholars of color. About Campus, 25(2), 24-27.
Osoria, R. (2024). From institutional exclusion to internalized worth: Latina immigrant mothers鈥 experiences in the K-12 education system. Literature Reviews in Education and Human Services, 3(1), 1-18.
Osoria, R. (2024). Weaving In and Out of Ourselves: Syllabus Formation and Assignment Development Through the Centering of Intersectionality. In Intersectionality and Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Praxis (3rd ed.). Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers.
Osoria, R. (2023). (De)constructing the Latina immigrant mother narrative and challenging the dichotomist perspective of marianismo and 鈥渢he unfit鈥 immigrant mother. In M.J. Villasenor & H. Jimenez (Eds.), The Latinx Experience: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. SAGE Publications.
Osoria, R. (2020, September 8). How Systemic Educational Beliefs and Practices Limit the Inclusion of Latinx Immigrant Parents in Schools. In Latino Rebels [Op-ed]. Retrieved fromRamirez, B. and Osoria, R. (2023). Recognizing embodied histories and intersectionality of students of color in language. In A. Esmail, A. Pitre, A.D. Ross, J, Blakely, & H. Prentice Baptiste (Eds.), English Language Learners the Power of Culturally Relevant Pedagogies (pp.47-52). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Salgado, H., Haviland, I., Hernandez, M., Lozano, D., Osoria, R., Keyes, D., ... & Z煤帽iga, M. L. (2014). Perceived discrimination and religiosity as potential mediating factors between migration and depressive symptoms: A transnational study of an indigenous Mayan population. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 16(3), 340-347.
Abraham Bustamante
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
abustamante@csusm.edu
Shahrazad Encinias
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
sencinias@csusm.edu
Matthew J. Irwin, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
mirwin@csusm.edu
- Matthew J. Irwin Biography
Dr. Matthew Irwin (he/they) is a writer, editor, scholar, and parent. He鈥檚 a third-generation settler of Irish and German descent, born on Anishinaabe land along Great Black Swamp in the postindustrial zone of Toledo, Ohio. Dr. Irwin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and a PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. They received a BA in English from Miami University (Ohio). Their teaching and research focus on visuality and urban aesthetics through the lenses of critical ethnic studies and critical Indigenous studies. This work appears in numerous peer-reviewed articles, reviews, and commercial publications, including Capitalism Nature Socialism, InVisible Culture, Momus, and Hyperallergic. Their dissertation project, 鈥(S墨藞t沫ng) Detroit: Vision and Dispossession in a Midwest Bordertown,鈥 examines news reports, films, maps, advertisements, murals, graffiti, landscapes, and architecture to demonstrate the ways in which the visual, rhetorical, and built environment of Detroit鈥檚 main thoroughfare, Woodward Avenue, upholds and renews the logics of white possession. Dr. Irwin also contributed to a chapter on multimodal writing and rhetoric in the book Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice, edited by Santosh Khadka and J.C. Lee for the University Press of Colorado. He previously taught American Studies, Native Studies, Cultural Studies, and Writing at San Diego State University, the University of Wyoming, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Central New Mexico Community College, and the University of New Mexico.
- Scholarly and Creative Work
2020 鈥淪evering Union: The Queer Performance of Steven Paul Judd鈥檚 鈥楽top the DAPL鈥欌 Hemisphere: Visual Culture of the Americas, University of New Mexico, 7,424 words
2020 鈥淟ifesaving and Abolitionism: Shifting the Frame on Prison Art鈥 Momus, online, 1,826 words
2020 鈥淔ronteristxs Against Private Prisons鈥 Santa Fe Reporter, online, 839 words
2019 鈥淭he Legacy of Mary Sully: Early Indigenous Feminism and the 鈥楢merican Indian Abstract,鈥欌 Momus, online, 1,909 words
2018 鈥淭he New Jail: Profit and Social Control" Riverwise Magazine, James and Grace Lee Boggs Center, 6
2018 鈥淧uerto Rico: Defying Darkness,鈥 caareviews.org, College Art Association of America, online, 1,594 words
2017 鈥溾榊our Wilderness鈥: The White Possession of Detroit in Jim Jarmusch鈥檚 Only Lovers Left Alive,鈥 Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, Taylor & Francis, 78-95
2017 鈥淪uturing the Borderlands: Postcommodity and Indigenous Presence on the U.S.-Mexico Border,鈥 InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, online, 9,787 words
Persephone Lewis
Lecturer, Ethnic Studies
plewis@csusm.edu