Race & Ethnicity
Jared Bahir Browsh
Scholar in Residence, CU Boulder
Jared Bahir Browsh is a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Journalism, a part of the College of Media, Communication and information. He completed his doctorate in Media Studies from CMCI in 2017, also earning graduate certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. He has stayed active as a journalist for close to a decade, most recently as the current General Manager and Media Advisor for Radio 1190 on campus. Before coming to Colorado, he was a freelance journalist, working more than two years for NPR affiliate WHYY as an Assistant for Educational Programs and a Producer. His research focuses on media history, examining the political economics of representation in television and film. His first book, a history of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, is scheduled for publication in the first quarter of 2019.
Alton Clark
Associate Director for Veterans Upward Bound Program, MSU Denver
Alton Clark is a Native of Denver Colorado and proud graduated of Manuel High school. After graduation, he joined the military service through the United States Army and served as a combat construction engineer with additional duties as equal opportunity NCO and career retention NCO, after serving 16 1/2 years I was medically retired and pursued a college education. He graduated with a BS in human services and is a certified addictions counselor (CACIII)
Alton has a very successful career with MSU Denver as the Associate Director for the Veterans Upward Bound Program, a federally funded Trio program through the Department of education. VUB provided free academic education for veterans that are: low income, first-generation, which need assistance in obtaining a postsecondary education and or a GED education.
Alton is very passionate about serving his community he has worked as a scout master for Boy Scout Troop 149 in Montebello, He volunteers for the James P. Beckwourth Outdoor education Center, Former Co- Advisor for the Black Student Alliance & African American Affairs Council (MSU Denver), and male Mentor True Light Baptist Church. He is also very passionate about enjoying the great outdoors and providing opportunities for youth and adults to get out and be active. He is an avid fisherman, hunter, skier, rafter and camper. Alton also enjoys spending quality time with his wife Debra Clark, two grown children, Billy Williams and Amber A. Clark.
Patrick Ferrucci
Journalism/Assistant Professor
Race and the Deep Ball
This session focuses on two recently published studies that examine how regular people stereotype NFL quarterbacks based on race. The results will be discussed and interpreted through the lens of theories of identity. We'll discuss the implications. (They will learn how stereotypes and the media can have effects.
Patrick Ferrucci is an assistant professor of journalism. He joined the department in 2015 after spending two years on the faculty at Bradley University.
His research and teaching specializations are in digital journalism. Ferrucci’s research broadly examines various aspects of media sociology, specifically how economics and technology influence digital news. He also studies the intersection of race, gender and sports journalism. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism, Computers in Human Behavior, Journalism Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Digital Journalism and others.
Before entering academia, Ferrucci spent nine years as a journalist. He covered pop culture, primarily rock music, for various newspapers, magazines and online publications in the Northeast.
He holds an undergraduate degree in sociology from Providence College, a master’s in journalism from Emerson College and a PhD from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
Shawn T. O'Neal
Doctoral student in ethnic studies, CU Boulder
I am a University of Colorado Denver graduate. I received my Masters in Global History in the spring of 2016, and am currently a Doctoral student and Teacher’s Assistant in the Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder. My various emphases of study are race, critical race theory, critical sports studies, and ethnomusicology. I have previously taught African American history, Global Media, Intro. to Ethnic Studies, Intro. to Hip Hop Studies as a TA, and currently, Critical Sports Studies as a TA. My present focus of writing consists of the challenging and interrogation of Eurocentric epistemologies, as well as analyzing the racialization, sexualization, and gendering of music.
Keith Pontiflet
Key to Life Counseling Center in Aurora, Colo.
Currently working with Denver state probation and federal parole departments and local schools in the fight against addictions and drug use ... has 3 kids ages 15, 13 and 9 ... from Oakland Calif.: Orange County ... High School: Esperanza in Anaheim, Calif. ... 1990 graduate of CU Boulder (bachelor's degree in communication/sociology)
Nick Villanueva
Director of Critical Sports Studies, CU Boulder
Nick Villanueva is Director of Critical Sports Studies and lecturer of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also has affiliation with the Center for the American West. He is a first generation college student originally from Gary, Indiana, but grew up in the Chicago metro area. Villanueva earned his Ph.D. in History with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity in 20th Century U.S., from Vanderbilt University, 2014. His first book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, examines the increase in Mexican lynching during the first ten years of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. Villanueva’s book recently won the 2018 National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Non-Fiction Prize. His fellowships and awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Excellence in West Texas History Association, and the Walter Prescott-Webb publishing award.
Scholar in Residence, CU Boulder
Jared Bahir Browsh is a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Journalism, a part of the College of Media, Communication and information. He completed his doctorate in Media Studies from CMCI in 2017, also earning graduate certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies. He has stayed active as a journalist for close to a decade, most recently as the current General Manager and Media Advisor for Radio 1190 on campus. Before coming to Colorado, he was a freelance journalist, working more than two years for NPR affiliate WHYY as an Assistant for Educational Programs and a Producer. His research focuses on media history, examining the political economics of representation in television and film. His first book, a history of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, is scheduled for publication in the first quarter of 2019.
Alton Clark
Associate Director for Veterans Upward Bound Program, MSU Denver
Alton Clark is a Native of Denver Colorado and proud graduated of Manuel High school. After graduation, he joined the military service through the United States Army and served as a combat construction engineer with additional duties as equal opportunity NCO and career retention NCO, after serving 16 1/2 years I was medically retired and pursued a college education. He graduated with a BS in human services and is a certified addictions counselor (CACIII)
Alton has a very successful career with MSU Denver as the Associate Director for the Veterans Upward Bound Program, a federally funded Trio program through the Department of education. VUB provided free academic education for veterans that are: low income, first-generation, which need assistance in obtaining a postsecondary education and or a GED education.
Alton is very passionate about serving his community he has worked as a scout master for Boy Scout Troop 149 in Montebello, He volunteers for the James P. Beckwourth Outdoor education Center, Former Co- Advisor for the Black Student Alliance & African American Affairs Council (MSU Denver), and male Mentor True Light Baptist Church. He is also very passionate about enjoying the great outdoors and providing opportunities for youth and adults to get out and be active. He is an avid fisherman, hunter, skier, rafter and camper. Alton also enjoys spending quality time with his wife Debra Clark, two grown children, Billy Williams and Amber A. Clark.
Patrick Ferrucci
Journalism/Assistant Professor
Race and the Deep Ball
This session focuses on two recently published studies that examine how regular people stereotype NFL quarterbacks based on race. The results will be discussed and interpreted through the lens of theories of identity. We'll discuss the implications. (They will learn how stereotypes and the media can have effects.
Patrick Ferrucci is an assistant professor of journalism. He joined the department in 2015 after spending two years on the faculty at Bradley University.
His research and teaching specializations are in digital journalism. Ferrucci’s research broadly examines various aspects of media sociology, specifically how economics and technology influence digital news. He also studies the intersection of race, gender and sports journalism. His work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism, Computers in Human Behavior, Journalism Studies, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Digital Journalism and others.
Before entering academia, Ferrucci spent nine years as a journalist. He covered pop culture, primarily rock music, for various newspapers, magazines and online publications in the Northeast.
He holds an undergraduate degree in sociology from Providence College, a master’s in journalism from Emerson College and a PhD from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism.
Shawn T. O'Neal
Doctoral student in ethnic studies, CU Boulder
I am a University of Colorado Denver graduate. I received my Masters in Global History in the spring of 2016, and am currently a Doctoral student and Teacher’s Assistant in the Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado Boulder. My various emphases of study are race, critical race theory, critical sports studies, and ethnomusicology. I have previously taught African American history, Global Media, Intro. to Ethnic Studies, Intro. to Hip Hop Studies as a TA, and currently, Critical Sports Studies as a TA. My present focus of writing consists of the challenging and interrogation of Eurocentric epistemologies, as well as analyzing the racialization, sexualization, and gendering of music.
Keith Pontiflet
Key to Life Counseling Center in Aurora, Colo.
Currently working with Denver state probation and federal parole departments and local schools in the fight against addictions and drug use ... has 3 kids ages 15, 13 and 9 ... from Oakland Calif.: Orange County ... High School: Esperanza in Anaheim, Calif. ... 1990 graduate of CU Boulder (bachelor's degree in communication/sociology)
Nick Villanueva
Director of Critical Sports Studies, CU Boulder
Nick Villanueva is Director of Critical Sports Studies and lecturer of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also has affiliation with the Center for the American West. He is a first generation college student originally from Gary, Indiana, but grew up in the Chicago metro area. Villanueva earned his Ph.D. in History with a concentration in Race and Ethnicity in 20th Century U.S., from Vanderbilt University, 2014. His first book, Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands, examines the increase in Mexican lynching during the first ten years of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920. Villanueva’s book recently won the 2018 National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies Non-Fiction Prize. His fellowships and awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities, Ford Foundation, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Excellence in West Texas History Association, and the Walter Prescott-Webb publishing award.