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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYof a nationwide NSF-funded effort to use the humanities to improve science education in thecollege classroom. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, the BritishAcademy and the Max Planck Institute. He currently runs the New York City History ofScience Working Group.Clyde R.TaylorProfessor EmeritusB.A. 1953, M.A. 1959, Howard; Ph.D. 1968,Wayne StateClyde R. Taylor is a cultural historian whose training and experience lie mainly in literaryand film studies. His teaching explores narratives of cultural self-imagining as they have beenfashioned by African and African diaspora societies, as well as the way these narratives intersectwith counternarratives ofWestern civilization. He has curated and programmed film andart exhibitions at several institutions,including theWhitney Museum of American Art and theBrooklyn Museum. His writings includeVietnam and Black America as editor, Black Geniusas coeditor and The Mask of Art, for which he received the Josephine Miles-Oakland PENAward. He also wrote the script for the PBS documentary Midnight Ramble, the Life andLegacy of Oscar Micheaux. He has received several grants and fellowships, including aFulbright Fellowship, Ford, Rockefeller and residencies at the Whitney, Bellagio ResearchCenter and Museum of African Art (D.C.). He has been elected to the National Hall of Fameof Writers of African Descent, and he has received an “Indie” for critical writing on films ofminorities,as well as a Callaloo Prize for nonfiction prose.His current writing project involvesalternative modernisms in non-European contexts.Jack (John Kuo Wei) TchenAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1973,Wisconsin (Madison); M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1992, NewYorkJack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen is a facilitator,teacher,historian,curator,re-organizer and dumpsterdiver.He works on understanding the multiple presents,pasts and futures of NewYork City,identity formations, trans-local cross-cultural communications, archives and epistemologiesand progressive pedagogy.He also works on decolonizing Eurocentric ideas,theories and practicesand making our cultural organizations and institutions more representative and democratic.ProfessorTchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) StudiesProgram and Institute at NewYork University and part of the original founding faculty of theDepartment of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU. He co-founded the Museum of Chinesein America in 1979-80, where he continues to serve as senior historian. Jack was awarded theCharles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (renamed TheNational Medal of Humanities). He is author of the award-winning books NewYork beforeChinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 and Genthe’sNewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 45
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYPhotographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown,1895-1905.And he is co-principle investigatorof “Asian Americas and Pacific Islanders Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight”produced withThe College Board. ProfessorTchen has been building research collections ofAsians in the Americas. In doing so, he has critically examined practices of collections andarchives to make sense of how we come to know what we know, and don’t know. He is currentlyco-chairing the effort at the Smithsonian Institution to form an Asian Pacific AmericanCenter.ProfessorTchen is now working on a book about NewYork City focusing on theunrecognized tradition of the intermingling of people, creativity and improvisation of everydayresidents. He is also editing The ‘Yellow Peril’ Reader: Understanding Xenophobia to bepublished byThe New Press spring 2012.He regularly collaborates with filmmakers and mediaproducers,artists and collectors,and through the A/P/A Institute sponsors and produces hundredsof programs and performances. Most recently, he co-curated MoCA’s core exhibition:“With a single step: stories in the making of America” in a new space designed by Maya Lin.Alejandro VelascoAssistant ProfessorB.A. 2000, Boston College; M.A. 2002, Ph.D. 2009, DukeAlejandro Velasco is a historian of modern Latin America whose research and teaching interestsare in the areas of social movements,urban culture and democratization.His manuscript,“‘A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote’: Urban Protest and Electoral Politics in ModernVenezuela,” couples archival and ethnographic research to examine how residents ofVenezuela’s largest public housing community pursued full citizenship during the heyday ofLatin America’s once-model democracy. Before joining the Gallatin faculty, ProfessorVelascotaught at Hampshire College,where he was a Five College Fellow,and at Duke University.Histeaching record includes interdisciplinary courses on contemporary Latin America (includingseminars on human rights, cultural studies and urban social movements), historical methodscourses on 20th-century revolutions, graduate history courses on urban political history andworkshops with primary and secondary school educators. At Gallatin, his courses include“(Re)Imagining Latin America,”“¡Revolución!” and “Incivility in the Age of Civil Society.”ProfessorVelasco’s research has won major funding support from the Social Science ResearchCouncil, the American Historical Association, the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation,among others,and he has presented widely at both national and international conferencesand symposia. His most recent publications are “‘A Weapon as Powerful as the Vote’: UrbanProtest and Electoral Politics in Venezuela, 1978-8193” (Hispanic American Historical Review,November 2010) and “‘We Are Still Rebels:’The Challenge of Popular History in BolivarianVenezuela”(Dan Hellinger and David Smilde,eds.,Participation,Politics,and Culture inVenezuela’sBolivarian Democracy, Duke 2011).46 NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013
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