{"id":16,"date":"2021-11-16T21:52:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T21:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T21:29:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-16\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-16-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"home-hero home-hero-alternate-text-fix wide horizontal-center siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-0\" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_parallaxherosectionwidget ParallaxHeroSectionWidget panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-0-0-0\" ><!-- Hero Image -->\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"home-hero-text-wrapper container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"home-hero-text-content\" style=\"text-align: right; bottom: 5%; right: 5%;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"home-hero-text-headline home-hero-alternate-text\" style=\"font-size: 70px;\">Critical Race and <br> Ethnicity Studies<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<!-- end Hero section -->\n    <\/div><\/div>\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t.ParallaxHeroSectionWidget {\n\tmargin-bottom: 0;\n}\n.home-hero {\n    height: auto;\n    overflow: hidden;\n    background-repeat: no-repeat;\n    background-size: auto 300px;\n    background-position: top center;\n    background-color: black;\n    position: relative;\n}\n\n.home-hero-bg-image {\n\twidth: 100%;\n    height: 300px;\n    background-size: cover;\n    background-position: center center;\n}\n.home-hero-text-wrapper {\n\tpadding: 20px;\n    z-index: 999;\n    position: relative;\n    height: 300px;\n    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.47);\n}\n.home-hero-text-content {\n  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.widget_sp_image-description p {\n\t\n\topacity: 1;\n}\n#home-staff-list  .home-staff-list-container #home-staff-list-link {\n\ttext-align: center;\n}\n#home-staff-list  .home-staff-list-container #home-staff-list-link a {\n\tcolor: black;\n    font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;\n    font-size: 25px;\n    text-transform: uppercase;\n}\n@media(min-width: 600px) {\n\t#home-staff-list  .home-staff-list-container #home-staff-list-link {\n\t\ttext-align: right;\n\t}\n}\n\/* The Augsburg Experience section *\/\n.home-augsburg-experience-section {\n\tpadding-top: 80px;\n\tpadding-bottom: 60px;\n}\n.home-augsburg-experience-section .container {\n\tmax-width: 1009px;\n}\n.home-augsburg-experience-section-media {\n\n}\n\n.home-augsburg-experience-section-text {\n\n}\n.home-augsburg-experience-section-text h2 {\n\tcolor: #660033;\n\tfont-size: 46px;\n}\n.home-augsburg-experience-section-text p {\n\n}\n.home-augsburg-experience-section-text .sidebar-color-box {\n\tdisplay: 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!important;\n\tposition: relative;\n}\n\n.parallax-cover-center img {\n\twidth: 100%;\n\theight: 100%;\n\tobject-fit: cover;\n\tposition: absolute;\n\ttop: 0;\n\tleft: 0;\n}\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<aside id=\"navigation-sidebar\">\n\t\t\t<nav id=\"sidenav\" class=\"main-navigation\" role=\"navigation\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"menu\"><ul>\n<li ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/nav>\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-image-section panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-1\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-text-content panel-cell-style panel-cell-style-for-16-1-0\" ><div id=\"panel-16-1-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_siteorigin-panels-builder panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-1-0-0\" ><div id=\"pl-w68b5d309338d0\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-w68b5d309338d0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-w68b5d309338d0-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-w68b5d309338d0-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">What is Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in Fall 2021, the Department of Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies (CRES) is a result of the collaborative effort by faculty and students. Situated in the \u201cheartland\u201d of America, a dynamic geopolitical region with complex histories of racial division, indigenous dispossession, migrant labor, and refugee resettlement, the CRES Department at Augsburg is committed to study and engage with all the communities surrounding us as parts of our increasingly interconnected world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-2\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-2-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h2 style=\"font-size: 35px; color: #660033;\">STUDENT-CENTERED and RELEVANT<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Department represents a critical step for º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ to embrace its ever-changing student population that reflects the surrounding community. Our students deserve relevant courses and pedagogy that both center and equip them to think critically about their experiences in the world. CRES is a catalyst for broader curricular, pedagogical, and institutional innovation and change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-16-2-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-2-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-2-1-0\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"632\" alt=\"Posters on display for One Day in May\" class=\"attachment-full\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/one-day-1.jpeg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-3\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-image-section panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-3\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-3-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-text-content panel-cell-style panel-cell-style-for-16-3-0\" ><div id=\"panel-16-3-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_siteorigin-panels-builder panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div id=\"pl-w68b5d3caea079\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-w68b5d3caea079-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-w68b5d3caea079-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-w68b5d3caea079-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><h3 class=\"widget-title\">FACULTY PROFILES<\/h3>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>With expertise in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies in our respective fields of Latinx studies and Asian\/Southeast Asian American studies, our core faculty\u2019s research and teaching present an interdisciplinary framework to the study of race, ethnicity, indigeneity, sexuality, gender, class, and nationality. Our innovative approach takes up transnational, relational, and intersectional methods to generate and teach critical knowledge about systems of power and inequality\u2013\u2013as well as how racialized and indigenous communities respond to such systems. CRES has established both a major and a minor, as well as connections across disciplines and departments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-4\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-4\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-4-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-4-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"6\" ><div class=\"parallax-cover-center panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-0-0\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Andy Aoki<\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"535\" alt=\"Professor Andy Aoki\" class=\"attachment-full aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2022\/05\/KSP_APSA_Headshots_Day2_497B-1-e1777670459580.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"7\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-0-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Andy Aoki, PhD (he)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>M. Anita Gay Hawthorne Professor of Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andy Aoki's scholarship includes work on immigration and ethnoracial politics more broadly. He published (with Okiyoshi Takeda) the first textbook on Asian American politics. He is co-founder of the Asian Pacific American Caucus and an American Political Science Association (APSA) Related Group, and has twice served as president of the APSA Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image\" data-index=\"8\" ><div class=\"parallax-cover-center panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-0-2\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Antonio V\u00e1squez <\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Professor Antonio V\u00e1squez\" class=\"attachment-full aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2024\/09\/VasquezAntonio_Headshot2-e1777670531628.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-0-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"9\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-0-3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Antonio V\u00e1squez (he)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Professor of Latine\/x Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Antonio is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches introductory and advanced courses in Latinx Studies.\u00a0 His research agenda examines the significance of Chicanx\/Latinx intellectual and organizational formations and social movements.\u00a0 In addition, he always welcomes opportunities to work with current and former students on local community engagement projects and public scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-16-4-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-16-4-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child\" data-index=\"10\" ><div class=\"parallax-cover-center panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-1-0\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/ly-thuy-nguyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"widget_sp_image-image-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1999\" alt=\"Ly Th\u00fay Nguy\u1ec5n, Ph.D.\" class=\"attachment-full aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-1-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor\" data-index=\"11\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-1-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/ly-thuy-nguyen\/\"><b>Ly Th\u00fay Nguy\u1ec5n, PhD (she\/they)<\/b><\/a><br \/><strong>Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ly\u2019s teaching and research interests include transnational histories of war, race, and empire, through an examination of queerness, refugee epistemologies, transnational activism, and intergenerational trauma. Her current book project traces a transnational genealogy of Vietnamese radicalism and investigates the interpersonal and political connections that allowed for the formation of a Vietnamese American Left during and after the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-1-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image\" data-index=\"12\" ><div class=\"parallax-cover-center panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-1-2\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\">Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280<\/h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/ly-thuy-nguyen\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"widget_sp_image-image-link\" title=\"Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Jannah Mitchell\" class=\"attachment-full aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/05\/Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/05\/Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/05\/Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/cres\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/139\/2026\/05\/Jannah_Mitchell_IMG_2280.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-16-4-1-3\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-last-child\" data-index=\"13\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-4-1-3\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><strong>Jannah Mitchell (she)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Assistant Professor of Black Studies and Literary Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jannah Mitchell's research and scholarship encompass the intersections of Black Southern Studies and Literary Studies. Her research and teaching interests include the histories and experiences of rural Black communities in the US South, their varied alternative methods of archival documentation, and the Afrofuturistic possibilities of memory work and archival production. She values the interdisciplinary nature of her work and hopes to impart the myriad ways of research and learning to her students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-5\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-image-section siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-5\" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-5-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-text-content panel-cell-style panel-cell-style-for-16-5-0\" ><div id=\"panel-16-5-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_siteorigin-panels-builder panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"14\" ><div id=\"pl-w68b5cfed3b825\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-w68b5cfed3b825-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-w68b5cfed3b825-0\" ><div id=\"pgc-w68b5cfed3b825-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-w68b5cfed3b825-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-w68b5cfed3b825-0-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>Our department seeks to provide all students with ethically and socially responsible scholarship that fosters critical thinking about the multiple ways race and ethnicity are produced in different historical contexts. Our goal is that our students become informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders in pressing issues such as reproductive health, antiracism, decolonization, and immigration, able to produce public policies and innovative strategies for transformative action in the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-16-6\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-image-section panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-16-6\" ><div id=\"pgc-16-6-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div class=\"parallax-bg-text-content panel-cell-style panel-cell-style-for-16-6-0\" ><div id=\"panel-16-6-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_siteorigin-panels-builder panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"15\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-16-6-0-0\" ><div id=\"pl-w68b5d2234ec70\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-w68b5d2234ec70-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-w68b5d2234ec70-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-w68b5d2234ec70-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Augsburg has become one of the most diverse private universities in the upper-Midwest, prompting the university to intentionally cultivate community. We are committed to developing practices of welcoming and we affirm our responsibility to become an anti-racist institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies Home What is Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies? 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