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Rubén Martinez
rmartinez@jsri.msu.edu
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Dr. Rubén O. Martinez became Director of the Julían Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University on Sept. 1, 2007. He is a nationally known scholar with expertise in the areas of higher education, race, and ethnic relations and diversity leadership. His areas of specialization include leadership and institutional change, education and ethnic minorities, youth development, and environmental justice. He was formerly Professor of Public Administration at the University of Texas-San Antonio, where he also served as Director of the Center for Policy Studies. |
Dr. Martinez has published and lectured widely in the areas of leadership, organizational transformation, race and ethnic relations, education of ethnic minorities, and environmental justice. In 1993, he and Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., published a monograph entitled Chicanos in Higher Education. Their most recent work is a monograph titled Diversity Leadership in Higher Education.
Dr. Martinez previously worked as a consultant on multiple community projects sponsored by — among others — the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Ford Foundation, Pfitzer Foundation, Anne E. Casey Foundation, and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. He also has served on higher education accreditation teams and has visited several institutions across the country on accreditation site visits. At UTSA he implemented and coordinated the Hispanic Leadership Program in Agriculture and Natural Resources, a pioneering leadership program involving the U.S. Forest Service, the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service, and Texas A&M University System.
In 1997-1998, he served as President of the Western Social Science Association. During 1994-95, he served as an American Council of Education Fellow, studying issues in higher education and serving as an administrative intern in the Office of the President at the University of Southern Colorado
Professor Martinez has held a full-time faculty appointment since 1984. He has been a senior academic administrator, department chairperson, director of two research institutes, director of a learning center, graduate coordinator of graduate programs, faculty sponsor of several student organizations, including La Despedida, Alpha Lambda Delta, MEChA, the Sociology Club, and the Alpha Kappa Delta Honors Society chapter, Zeta of Colorado. He also has served as president of faculty governance organizations, chairperson or member of several student success and advocacy committees, as a member of the University of Colorado Faculty Senate, vice-chair of the University of Colorado Faculty Council, chairperson and member of the CU and UCCS Minority Affairs Committee, member of the CU Mission 2000 and Faculty Futures Review Committee, member of the executive board of the Western Social Science Association, member of the site coordinating committee of the National Association for Chicano Studies, and member of the Race Relations Committee of the Pacific Sociological Association. In the community, he has worked with several high schools to develop multicultural learning environments, served as chairperson and member of the Colorado Springs Human Relations Commission, member of the Colorado Springs JTPA-Private Industry Council, member of the 4th Judicial District's Diversity Task Force, and member of the Colorado Judicial Advisory Council to the Chief Justice and Administrator of the Colorado Court System. Until recently, he served on the Resource Advisory Board of Kelly USA in San Antonio.
Visiting Scholars
Jean Kayitsinga
jean.kayitsing@ssc.msu.edu
Dr. Jean Kayitsinga is a sociologist demographer for JSRI and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling Educational Psychology and Special Education, Measurement and Quantitative Methods (MQM) program at MSU, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1999. His areas of specialization include rural sociology, sociology of families, demography, research methods and statistical methodologies. |
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Staff
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Anita Garza
garzaa@msu.edu
Anita Garza is JSRI's Office Manager. She coordinates the day-to-day activities of JSRI, handles all fiscal, financial, and administrative responsibilities, supervises and oversees the department's undergraduate work force, and is the confidential administrative assistant for JSRI's lead administrator. She and her two sons live in Lansing. |
Danny
Layne
layne@msu.edu
Danny Layne, an award-winning photographer and writer with more
than two decades of journalism experience, is JSRI's network administrator
and Microcomputer Hardware/Software Coordinator. He joined the JSRI
team in 1995 and has been instrumental in establishing the Institute's
web site as well as JSRI's publications program. He holds a degree
in photography and a BA in Journalism
from MSU. Layne, a former Marine Corps Combat Correspondent, lives in Eaton Rapids with his wife and youngest daughter. |
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Students
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Raquel Arevalo
arevalo2@msu.edu
Raquel Arevalo, who is originally from San Juan, Texas, came from a large migrant family that lived in Minnesota and Michigan throughout much of the year. She is currently a sophomore enrolled in the Pre-Nursing Program at Michigan State University; her goal is to remain focused on school and her part-time job at JSRI. When her education is complete, Arevalo hopes to work in Prenatal Care, OB, or Pediatrics. |
Alejandro Gradilla
gradiil1@msu.edu
Alejandro Gradilla is a Doctoral Student in MSU’s Department of Sociology. His areas of specialization are in Latina/o Sociology, Race and Ethnicity, and Urban Sociology. In 2005 he received his Bachelors of Arts degree in sociology from California State University, Chico and has been part of the JSRI student workforce for almost two years. He is originally from Los Angeles. |
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Jose Moreno
morenojo@msu.edu
Jose G. Moreno is a Ph.D. student in Chicano/Latino Studies at MSU and was a History and Chicano Studies lecturer at several California universities and colleges. He has a BA in History and Chicano Studies and a Masters in Chicano Studies. He has published various scholarly and popular articles and book reviews. Moreno has worked toward the development of community-based and public scholarship in the field of Chicano Studies and History.
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Louie Moreno
morenolo@msu.edu
Luis Moreno is a Ph.D. student in the new Chicano/Latino Studies Ph.D. program at MSU. He received a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies and a M.A. in Chicana/o Studies. He was an Assistant Archivist at CSU-Northridge where he oversaw the processing of Rodolfo F. Acuña Collection, Julian Nava Collection, Mother of East Los Angeles Papers, and other Chicano/Latino collections. His areas of research are grass-root and community activism, development of Chicano Studies, public and oral history and archival preservation.
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Jose Rosas
rosasjos@msu.edu
Jose Rosas, an MSU Junior, is majoring in Human Resources & Society and is working toward specializations in Latin America Studies and Chicano/Latino Studies. Originally from Mexico and the son of migrant farmworkers, Rosas began high school in the U.S. in 2002. His future goals include additional training and education, enhanced opportunities to serve his community, and increased commitment to people who come from backgrounds similar to his own.
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