Wayne Yang
Assistant Professor
Social Sciences Bldg. Room 222
Phone: 858.822.2824
Fax: 858.534.8194
E-mail: kwayne@ucsd.edu
Fall Quarter 2008 Office Hours: TBA
2008-09 Courses:
Fall 2008:
Winter 2009:
ETHN 87 - Freshman Seminar (TBA)
ETHN 185 - Discourse, Power, and Inequality
ETHN 240 - Research in Ethnic Studies: Cultural Studies and Cultural Production
Spring 2009:
ETHN 290B - Masters Thesis Preparation
Education:
Ph.D., Social and Cultural Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests:
Youth Culture and Pedagogy in the Emergence of Social Movements
Dr. Yang will be joining the Ethnic Studies Department in November 2006. He received his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. Prior to his appointment at UCSD, he was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access. His dissertation, entitled “Taking Over: The Struggle to Transform an Urban School System,” earned several distinctions, including Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Yang brings an applied research approach to the Ethnic Studies Department, particularly for his work in urban schools. His current research focuses on the role of youth popular culture and pedagogy in the emergence of social movements. He draws from a range of sociological, ethnographic and linguistic anthropological methods to analyze shifts in individual and collective consciousness about self, society, nation and world, especially for communities living in the context of modern U.S. ghettos. Dr. Yang’s work blurs the line between scholarship and community work, as evidenced by his work with youth sociologists, and his active participation in non-profit organizations such as the Avenues Project. An accomplished educator, Dr. Yang has taught high school in Oakland, California for nearly 15 years and is the Co-founder of East Oakland Community High School. He will be teaching “Language and Power,” a course examining the impact of discourses on social conditions, as well as “Ghetto Schools in the Public Imagination,” a freshman seminar on media representations of urban schools.