The race and ethnic studies minor focuses on the comparative study of race and ethnicity in the United States and across the world.
Where a background in race and ethnic studies can take you.
Coursework in the race and ethnic studies minor introduces students to the histories and cultures of American and global racial ethnic groups in ways that highlight the differences and similarities of ethnic experience and expression.
A closer look.
The race and ethnic studies minor familiarizes students with the history of the conceptual debates about race and ethnicity and various analytical approaches influential within interdisciplinary scholarship on ethnicity and race relations.
Beyond the basic.
Like all Hartwick students, race and ethnic studies minors learn by doing. They study in small classes with expert faculty. They travel the world. They get ready for meaningful careers and interesting lives. They thrive.
Putting race and ethnic studies to work.
Race and ethnic studies minors are employed in wide variety of interesting fields, and many go on to study at the most prestigious graduate schools in the nation.
Meet the race and ethnic studies faculty.
Our distinguished faculty are dedicated to giving tomorrow’s professionals the tools to make an impact the moment they graduate.
Mark Davies
Professor of Education & Director of Environmental, Sustainability & Society
Ed.D., Rutgers University
Areas of expertise:
Critical pedagogy, critical pedagogy of place, sustainability, environmental education, ecopedagogy
Edythe Ann Quinn
Professor of History
Ph.D., University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Areas of expertise:
Contemporary America, U.S. Women, Race and Ethnicity, Civil Rights Movement, Immigrants and Immigration, Environmental History
Robert Seguin
Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of Race & Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., Duke University
Areas of expertise:
modern and contemporary American literature, literary and cultural theory, the utopian tradition in literature, modernism in the arts
Munir S. Syed
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
M.B., B.S., University of Peshawar; M. Phil., University of the Punjab, Pakistan
Areas of expertise:
clinical pathophysiology, medical microbiology, human biology
Cecelia Walsh-Russo
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of expertise:
International Social Movements; Urban Sociology; Media Studies
