Experts in Social Issues — Racism

Alison Efford, Associate Professor

Alison EffordHistory Department

Expertise: History of the Republican Party in Wisconsin up to 1924; Milwaukee history; history of migration, especially German immigration to the U.S.; the U.S. Civil War era; United States during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Office Phone: (414) 288-7817
alison.efford@marquette.edu

 

Paul Finkelman, Robert F. Boden Visiting Professor of Law

Paul FinkelmanLaw School

Expertise: Race and law; U.S. Constitution (History, 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment), Civil Rights, Immigration, Citizenship; Baseball and law; Slavery, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; Founding fathers (especially Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and John Marshall); History of the Supreme Court; Supreme Court decisions and emerging ethics issues; Issues of slavery, reparations, and diversity; Bubonic plague and pandemics in historical perspective.

Cell Phone: (518) 605-0296
paul.finkelman@yahoo.com

Melissa Gibson, Assistant Professor

Melissa GibsonCollege of Education

Expertise: Social studies, history, and civic education; teacher education; racism and anti-racism in schooling; democratic schooling; history of U.S. education; diverse school communities

Office Phone: (414) 288-1421
melissa.gibson@marquette.edu

 

Jodi Melamed, Associate Professor

Jodi MelamedEnglish Department

Expertise: Race; Racism and Anti-Racism; Varieties and Histories of Concepts and Institutional Formations; American Literature and Culture after World War I; Culture and Politics; Culture and Globalization; U.S. Social and Civil Rights Movements after WWI

Office Phone: (414) 288-7612
jodi.melamed@marquette.edu

 

Giordana Poggioli-Kaftan, Teaching Associate Professor of Italian

Giordana Poggioli-KaftanDepartment of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Expertise: Italy as a nation and the Italian language; Marginalization of classes of people (notably: women, Jews, Italian Southerners); Exclusionary and marginalization rhetoric and the resistance efforts to it; Italian 19th and 20th centuries products promising modernity.

Media type: Print, TV and radio

giordana.kaftan@marquette.edu

Dr. Grant Silva, Associate Professor

Grant SilvaPhilosophy

Expertise: Latin American philosophy, political philosophy and the philosophy of race/ethics of racism.

(414) 288-5653

grant.silva@marquette.edu