Eric Hamako 6 Ahwaga Ave, #4 Northampton, MA 01060 (831) 818-6279 hamako@stanfordalumni.org Education UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, Amherst, MA, 2003-2014. Doctor of Education. Dissertation: Improving anti-racist education for Multiracial people STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 2000-2001. Master of Arts, Communication – Media Studies. Masters Project: Breast Cancer white-out: What newspapers say – and don’t say – about breast cancer STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA, 1995-2000. Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, Psychology. Teaching & Employment PROGRAM COORDINATOR, Smith College Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity, May 2013-present. Designed & managed an annual five-day social justice education training for 50+ residential student staff. Acted as the affirmative action junior officer. Investigated cases of workplace discrimination related to Title IX, sexual assault, disability, & race. INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT, Eric Hamako Training & Consulting, 2003-present. Designed and taught multimedia lectures & interactive trainings about a diverse set of social justice issues for more than one hundred universities, student organizations, national conferences of professional and academic associations, and community groups. ADJUNCT FACULTY, Smith College School for Social Work, Summer 2008-present. Designed and taught multiple sections of course on sociocultural concepts related to theory and practice of social work at a Masters (MSW) level. GRADUATE INTERN, Workplace Learning & Development, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2013. Analyzed qualitative data from surveys and focus group interviews for two separate research projects. GRADUATE INTERN, The Yuri Kochiyama Cultural Center, University of Massachusetts, Fall 2012. Coordinated programs that serve Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi, & Arab American (APIDAA) undergraduate students and educate the broader student body about APIDAA cultures and concerns. Supervised five undergraduate student staff. PRE-DOCTORAL FACULTY FELLOW, Department of Education, Ithaca College, 2011-2012. Created and taught two original one-semester undergraduate courses for the Department of Education, “Zombies, Wizards, Vampires & More: Media Literacy for Social Justice,” and “Fixing ‘Diversity Education’: Theory & Practice.” Mentored students. GRADUATE INTERN, Workplace Learning & Development, University of Massachusetts, 2008-2011. Created curricula and taught trainings on various workplace skills and topics, including diversity, time management, and personal development. Acted as an organizational consultant, conducting interviews and focus groups and analyzing data. Eric Hamako 2 PROJECT ASSISTANT, Office of the Graduate Dean, University of Massachusetts, Spring 2008. Researched U.S. colleges & universities that offer Islamic Studies programs & courses. INSTRUCTOR, Education 210: Social Diversity in Education, University of Massachusetts, 2006-2007. Designed curricula, including learning goals, readings, in-class activities, and assignments. Taught 30 students twice each week for 15 weeks. ASSISTANT TO THE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, University of Massachusetts Amherst Residence Life, Summer 2005 & 2006. Helped design curricula for 300 student staff; coordinated logistics. Designed curricula on interpersonal communication, conflict mediation, and confronting student policy violations. Evaluated & revised the UMass Residential Assistant Manual. ASSISTANT RESIDENCE DIRECTOR, University of Massachusetts Amherst Residence Life, 2004-2006. Supervised five Residential Assistants in a tower-style residence serving 450 undergraduate residents. Supervised student manager of the building’s housing office. Advised house government. Helped train student staff. CO-DIRECTOR, Northern California Camp Anytown, National Conference for Community and Justice, 2003. Designed and facilitated diversity workshops for twenty high school youth in an overnight, residential setting. Supervised a staff of twelve. Assisted with logistics and discipline. Courses Taught Human Behavior 133: Sociocultural Concepts Smith College School for Social Work, Summer 2008-2012. This course introduced students to sociocultural concepts that frame the context of human experience in contemporary U.S. society. The course explored the broad thematic areas of identity and intergroup relations for their implications for social work practice. Particular attention was given to privilege & oppression, social constructionism, structural determinism, reflexivity, and intersectionality. Education 29002: Fixing “Diversity Education”: Theory & practice. Ithaca College, Spring 2012. “Diversity education” is hotly debated in schools, colleges, and the business world. Who creates it and how? Who’s included and who’s left out? How do we differentiate education from indoctrination? In this participatory course, we’ll examine the practices, theories, critiques, and possibilities of “diversity education” and its alternatives (e.g., “social justice education”). We’ll learn about diversity and social justice by participating in some popular diversity education activities. Then, we’ll study the theories and critiques of those activities and practices. And finally, we’ll research, imagine, and create improved approaches to teaching about difference, justice, and liberation. This course will be of particular interest to students who want to teach or facilitate diversity education content. Education 29000 01: Zombies, Wizards, Vampires & More: Media Literacy for Social Justice Ithaca College, Fall 2011. What can we learn about Islamophobia from zombie films? Or about racism and views of mixed-race people from Harry Potter? What do vampires have to do with social class or anti-Semitism? Develop your analytical skills for “reading” movie messages about important contemporary issues. Apply media literacy ideas and skills to popular movies -- including our own favorites -- to think about racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of social injustice. Eric Hamako 3 Education 192A: Education at the Movies (Assistant) University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2007. This course introduced students to selected topics in modern educational theory and practice by examining cinematic depictions of teachers, students, and schools. Topics included teachers and teaching; learning theory; school leadership; intelligence; curriculum; international education; ability/disability; equity and diversity; and student motivation. Education 210: Social Diversity in Education University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2006 - Fall 2007. Designed curricula, including learning goals, readings, in-class activities, and assignments. Taught 30 students twice each week for 15 weeks. This course focused on issues of social identity, social & cultural diversity, and societal manifestations of oppression. Students learned to analyze social identity development, social group differences, intergroup relations, and levels and types of oppression. Course material included conceptual frameworks of social justice, White supremacy/ racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism/ homophobia, transgender oppression/ transphobia, heterosexism, anti-semitism & Christian supremacy, disability oppression/ ableism, and the connections between them. Education 156B: Multiracial Asian American Issues & Identity Stanford University, Spring 2001. This student-led, discussion-based course explored issues facing Biracial/ Multiracial Asian Americans. The course aimed to 1) broaden participants’ understanding of Biracial/ Multiracial issues, 2) improve their ability to relate their personal experiences to broader social phenomena and other socially constructed hierarchies, such as gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation, and 3) empower participants to further explore Biracial/ Multiracial identities, communities, theories, and activism. Education 10SC: Racial and Ethnic Identity: Increasing Self-Understanding (Head assistant) Stanford University, Summer 1999 & 2000. This Summer seminar explored African American, American Indian, Hispanic/Latino American and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development to better understand the influence of social/political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of People of Color in the United States. It addressed issues such as the relative salience of race in relationship to other social identities, including gender, class, occupational, generational, and regional identifications. It also covered Biracial/ Multiracial identities and White racial consciousness. Feminist Studies 108: Contemporary Women’s Issues Stanford University, Winter & Spring 1998. This student-led course and its related service learning trip focused on several contemporary feminist issues. Topics included service learning, women’s health, feminist perspectives and activism, reproductive rights, domestic violence, sexual assault, education and literacy, waged & unwaged work, and media representations. The service learning trip focused primarily on anti-violence activism. Eric Hamako 4 Publications (+denotes peer reviewed) Hamako, E. (2011). Zombie Orientals ate my brain! Orientalism in contemporary zombie film and fiction. In Moreman, C. & Rushton, C. (Eds.), Race, oppression and the zombie: Essays on cross-cultural appropriations of the Caribbean tradition. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. Hamako, E. (2009). The Yellow Peril rises from the grave… to get your White Women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories. In Media Res. +Hamako, E. (2005). For the movement: Community education supporting multiracial organizing. Equity and Excellence in Education, 38(2), 145-154. Conference Papers HARRY POTTER AND THE MISTAKEN MYTH OF THE MIXED-RACE MESSIAH Biennial meeting of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, Chicago, IL, November 3, 2012. WHAT SHOULD MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE LEARN? LEARNING GOALS FOR ANTI-(MONO)RACIST EDUCATION. Biennial meeting of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, Chicago, IL, November 1, 2012. ZOMBIE ORIENTALS ATE MY BRAIN! ORIENTALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ZOMBIE FILM AND FICTION Annual meeting of the Association of Asian American Studies East of California, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 1, 2008. MONSTERS, MESSIAHS OR SOMETHING ELSE? MIXED-RACE IN SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES Annual meeting of the American Literary Association, San Francisco, CA, May 24, 2008. Professional Presentations (* denotes invited; partial list) *SCIENCE FICTION AND MULTIRACIALITY: FROM OCTAVIA BUTLER TO HARRY POTTER Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY, December 14, 2013. *HARRY POTTER AND THE MISTAKEN MYTH OF THE MIXED-RACE MESSIAH Harvard University Half-Asian People’s Association’s Fifth Annual “So What Are You Anyway?” Conference, Cambridge, MA, April 6, 2013. *IMPROVING ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION FOR MIXED-RACE PARTICIPANTS Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, December 5, 2011. *MIXED-RACE ON CAMPUS: MULTIRACIAL STUDENT IDENTITIES & ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION The National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2011. *TOPICS FOR ACADEMIC/ COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS: WHAT SHOULD WE WORK ON? The Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, DePaul University, November 5, 2010. *IMPROVING ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION FOR MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE The Race & Pedagogy National Conference, University of Puget Sound, October 29, 2010. Eric Hamako 5 *ZOMBIE ORIENTALS ATE MY BRAIN! ORIENTALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ZOMBIE FILM & FICTION Yale University, March 7, 2009. *MIXED-RACE IN SCIENCE FICTION: MONSTERS, MESSIAHS, OR SOMETHING ELSE? Yale University, November 5, 2008. MIXED-RACE ASIAN AMERICANS The annual meeting of the Association of Asian American Studies. *MIXED-RACE ON CAMPUS: MULTIRACIAL STUDENT IDENTITIES & ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION Pomona College, February 22, 2008. WHY ARE WE HERE AGAIN? IMPROVING POLITICAL EDUCATION FOR MIXED-RACE ORGANIZATIONS Loving Decision Conference, Roosevelt University, June 22, 2007. *MIXED-RACE COMMON GROUND Dartmouth College, May 22, 2007. *TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION & MULTIRACIALITY: HISTORIES, LOYALTIES, SOLIDARITIES Smith College, 2006. *WHY DO PEOPLE ASK, “WHAT ARE YOU?”: EXPLORING MIXED-RACE EXPERIENCES AND THEIR ROOTS Hampshire College, November 21, 2005. *MIXED-RACE ORGANIZING: PROBLEMS & POSSIBILITIES Dartmouth College, November 16, 2005. PRECONFERENCE INSTITUTE ON MULTIRACIAL STUDENTS AND IDENTITY National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE). MODERN DAY SCIENTIFIC RACISM? EXPLORING IDEAS OF MIXED-RACE AND HEALTH National Student Conference on the Mixed-Race Experience (NSCMRE), Wesleyan University. INVISIBLE INHERITANCE: HOW US SYSTEMS INVEST STOLEN RESOURCES IN WHITENESS Understanding Whiteness, Recognizing Privilege Conference, Mount Holyoke College. MULTIRACIAL STUDENTS AND IDENTITY National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE). TRANSGENDER ISSUES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education. MIXED-RACE/ HAPA IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, AND ORGANIZATIONS Annual meeting of Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE). TEACHING OURSELVES FOR A CHANGE: A ROUNDTABLE ON STUDENT-LED MIXED-RACE EDUCATION National Student Conference on the Mixed-Race Experience (NSCMRE), Pomona College. BUILDING A NATIONAL MIXED-RACE STUDENT COALITION Mavin National Student Conference on the Mixed-Race Experience (NSCMRE), Seattle University. Eric Hamako 6 Panel Presentations (* denotes invited; partial list) *U.S. CENSUS: RATIONALIZING RACE Moderated a panel, organized by the Brooklyn Historical Society’s Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations project, April 18, 2013. http://cbbg.brooklynhistory.org/blog/uscensus-rationalizing-race and http://cbbg.brooklynhistory.org/learn/us-census-rationalizingrace. *THE MIXED RACE EXPERIENCE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES Presented by Multiethnic Interracial Smith College (MISC), Smith College, December 2, 2012. *RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION Education 210: Social Diversity in Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 20072010. *ANTI-SEMITISM & JEWISH EXPERIENCES Education 691E: Social Justice in Education. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Spring 2004-2009. *SEXISM Education 210: Social Diversity in Education, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2007. *MULTIRACIALITY AND RELIGION National Student Conference on the Mixed-Race Experience, NSCMRE, Macalester College, March 25, 2007. *MULTIRACIAL IDENTITIES: SHIFTING DEMOGRAPHICS, SHIFTING THE CONVERSATION (moderator) University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 8, 2006. *TRANSGENDER/ GENDER OPPRESSION Education 691E: Social Justice in Education. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fall 2005. *RACIAL & ETHNIC IDENTITY AND FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS Mount Holyoke College, MA, 2005. *THE EMERGING MIXED-RACE COMMUNITY Fusion Series, Swirl, Inc. New York, January 21, 2004. Awards & Fellowships FREDERICK DOUGLASS TEACHING SCHOLARS FELLOWSHIP, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Summer 2013 (Finalist; declined to accept). PRE-DOCTORAL FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship, 2011-2012. NATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP, Promoting Multicultural Excellence in the Academy, University of Denver, 2008. GRADUATE SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003. Eric Hamako 7 Campus & Community Service MEMBER, Sexual Misconduct External Review Board, Amherst College, Fall 2013-present. Adjudicated cases of sexual misconduct. Reviewed investigatory reports. Questioned relevant parties. Issued decisions and recommendations for sanctions. ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER, Census Bureau National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations, October 2012-present. Advised the Census Bureau on a range of variables that affect the cost, accuracy, and implementation of Census Bureau policies and programs, particularly regarding hard-tocount populations. Consulted regarding ethical, technical, and racial justice concerns related to proposed uses of administrative records and third-party data. BOARD MEMBER & SECRETARY, MAVIN, 2009-2012. Provided strategic guidance for a nationally recognized Mixed-Heritage nonprofit organization. Projects included GIS-based community-education materials and an online information clearinghouse, the Mixed Heritage Center. ORGANIZER, The Mixed-Race Organizers’ Anti-Racist Retreat, 2007-2008. Organized a three-day retreat for fifteen academics & community activists. Coordinated a team of planners and facilitators. Developed and taught curriculum for the retreat. CO-ORGANIZER, Transgender/ Gender Oppression Working Group, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003-2004. Helped organize and plan interventions to improve UMass' Social Justice Education Program's dealings with Transgender issues and gender oppression. EDITORIAL CONSULTANT, Childcare Health Program, 2002-2003. Helped edit curriculum on Multiracial childcare, Serving Children in Bi-Racial/ Bi-Ethnic Families. STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, Asian Pacific Americans for an Informed California, 2002-2003. Helped coordinate a state-wide coalition of Asian Pacific American organizations to oppose a racist ballot initiative, UC Regent Ward Connerly's Prop 54 (CRECNO). PROGRAMS DIRECTOR, Hapa Issues Forum, 2002-2003. Established programs for a national nonprofit organization, serving college- and community-based chapters of multiethnic Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Helped write two foundation grants. Coordinated with a state-wide advocacy campaign to oppose a ballot initiative. CO-ORGANIZER, Jewcy: The Jewish Social Activist Retreat, 2002-2008. Recruited new members. Created and managed application procedures. Implemented activities to network current members.