Gabriel Mendes

Assistant Professor

Social Sciences Bldg. Room 229
Phone: 858.822.5118
Fax: 858.534.8194
E-mail: gmendes@ucsd.edu

OFFICE HOURS:

Fall 2009: Mondays 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Tuesdays: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

2009-10 COURSES:

Fall 2009:

ETHN 289 Section ID:666534	Topics in Ethnic Studies: African American Intellectual History (4 units / Tuesdays 2:00-4:50pm / SSB 103)
	Structured both thematically and chronologically(from the end of the Nineteenth Century to the Present), this course takes a broad conceptualization of intellectual history as it explores both major currents in Black thought and some paths less well tread. We will pay particular attention to Black thinkers’ uses and critiques of the human sciences. Students can expect to read primary sources along with the scholarly historiography.
ETHN 142 Section ID # 665326	Medicine, Race, & Global Politics of Inequality	MWF 1:00 - 1:50pm PCYNH120	4 units, Upper Division "C" Req

Winter 2010:

ETHN 184

Black Intellectuals in the 20th Century

TBA

4 units, Upper Division "C" Req

Spring 2010:

USP 190

USP Honors

TBA

Education: Ph.D., American Civilization, Brown University M.T.S, Harvard Divinity School, 1997 B.A., Hobart College, 1994

Research Interests: Africana Thought and Cultures; History and Critique of the Human Sciences; Philosophy of Race and Racism

Projects: Professor Mendes's current project is an interdisciplinary study of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, the first outpatient psychiatric clinic in the community of Harlem, NY (1946-58). This work will be the basis for a broader study of African American encounters with the human sciences in the post-World War Two United States.