CURRICULUM VITAE AND PUBLICATIONS
Ethan Johnson
Assistant Professor
Department of Black Studies
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2005 (Education) Dissertation: The Unfulfilled Promise if Equality: Race, Identity and Schooling in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region, University of California, Berkeley,
M.A. 1991 (Education) Thesis: Spanish Language Acquisition and Afrian AmericanDialect, Stanford University
B.A. 1988 (Latin American Studies) Emphasis on issues of Race in Latin America and the Caribbean, University of California, Berkeley
PUBLICATIONS
(Work in progress) Coeditor with Professor Kassie Freeman of book Black Populations Globally for which I have written a proposal for an article based on the dissertation entitled “Reproduction and Contestation of Racial Inequality in Education: The Case of Ecuador.” Currently we are reviewing and compiling articles and looking for a publisher.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Ford Foundation Minority Dissertation Fellowship, fall 2003-spring 2004
Normative Time Fellowship of the Graduate Division, spring 2002-fall 2002
Humanities Research Grant of the Graduate Fellowships Office, summer 2000
Spencer Research Fellowship of the Graduate School of Education for 2000-01 academic year
Graduate Opportunity Program of the Graduate Fellowships Office, 1998-2000 and 2002-2003
SCHOOL REFORM EXPERIENCE
Facilitator, Project IMPACT, University of California, Berkeley, 2004-present
Project IMPACT (Inquiring Making Progress Across Communities of Teachers) is an initiative that aims to support new teachers. The program establishes school-based professional inquiry communities that provide instructional and personal support to teachers. The facilitator’s role involves attendance and facilitation of school-based and facilitator meetings, audio taping meetings and preparing field notes after each community meeting.
Ethnographer/Evaluator, Arts, Research and Curriculum (non-profit), Oakland, CA, 1998-2001,
Youth Together was designed to develop student leadership to diminish interracial conflict in Northern California Bay Area High Schools. The ethnographer/evaluators role included conducting interviews and observing meetings; analyzing and writing up field notes and interviews in a narrative form; and strategizing with high school students and other educational leaders in the development and implementation of plans for school change.
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2000
Collaborated with professors, teachers, administrators and community groups in the development and implementation of a program addressing the low academic achievement of Black and Latino males in a middle school in the San Francisco Unified School District.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING RELATED EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco, California, 1/05-6/05
Design and teach the graduate course Ethnicity, Race and Cultural Identity
This course is a critical examination of the concepts of race and ethnicity. The roles that race, ethnicity and cultural identity play in education in particular, and society in general, will be explored. Basic definitions of Culture, Race, Ethnicity and Identity will be developed.
Reader,University of California, Berkeley, 8/04-Present
Attend lectures, complete all reading for the course, grade examinations, and consult with the professor for the upper division course ‘Sociology of Education 113’ offered through the Sociology Department. This course critically examines definitive scholarly work on various aspects related to schools as sites of both social change and reproduction. Key among this course’s objectives is to develop in students sufficient breadth and depth of the major debates within the sociology of education in order that they can participate in the conversation.
Graduate Student Instructor , University of California, Berkeley, 8/00-6/01
Designed and taught all aspects of the curriculum for the upper division course “Critical Issues in Education 190” offered through the School of Education. This course explored schooling practices and their relationship to the reproduction and contestation of inequality concerning race, gender, social class, and sexuality. Additionally this course examined schools within major trends and shifts concerning reform movements in the educational system in the United States.
Spanish Teacher,Showa Women's University, Tokyo, Japan, 9/93-3/95
Taught beginning level conversational Spanish. Developed and implemented all aspects of the curriculum.
SECONDARY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Public School Teacher,Castlemont High School, Oakland, CA, 9/96-6/99
Taught primary language literature and Social Studies in Spanish to 9 th through 12 th graders. Served as advisor to MECHA and as a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee. Head coached of the men's varsity soccer team.
Public School Teacher, Lincoln High Continuation School, San Leandro, CA , 9/95-6/96
Taught English Composition to 9 th –12 th graders. Served as advisor to the student council and was a member of the district wide English/History Curriculum Development Committee.
Teacher , Kaijo and Miwata High Schools, Tokyo, Japan, 9/92-3/95
Taught English as a Second Language. Developed the curriculum and advised and supported students applying to universities in the United States.
Public School Teacher , King Estates Junior High, Oakland, CA, 9/91-8/92.
Taught and developed the Spanish curriculum. Served as Spanish Department Chairperson and member of the Class Management Strategies Committee.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Paper presentation at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education Research Day, April 2004. “Race, Nation and Schooling in a Afro-Ecuadorian Region.”
Paper presentation at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 2004. “Race, Nation and Schooling in a Afro-Ecuadorian Region.”
Paper presentation at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Mexico City, Mexico in October-November 2003. “Student Perceptions and Negotiations of Practices of Racial Inequality and Prejudice.”
Paper Presentation at the Ford Fellows Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico in October 2003. “Not All Blacks are Black: Student Orientations towards Whiteness in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.”
St. Claire Drake Cultural Studies Forum at U.C. Berkeley in March 2002. Paper Presentation. “Race, Nation and Schooling in a Afro-Ecuadorian Region; A Review of the Literature.”
Round table presentation at the American Education Research Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2000. "Hand in Hand: Community and School Factors that Contribute to Interracial Conflict."
Research Consultant, National Federation of Black Public AdministratorsOakland, CA, 2/90-5/90
Researched employment trends of minorities in the Bay Area of California for the Education, Business, and Employment Convention of the NFBPA. Presented material in conference format.
Spanish Medical Translator,Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, Oakland, CA, 1/89-12/89
Developed health literature for Spanish speaking patients. Provided translation between the doctor and the patient. Conducted interviews in Spanish, and maintained records of Spanish speaking patients.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: read, write and speak with fluency.
Portuguese: read well, write and speak with intermediate proficiency.