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Vanessa Rosa

Publication

Rosa, V. (2023). Precarious Constructions: Race, Class, and Urban Revitalization in Toronto. The University of North Carolina Press.

Rosa, V. & Pinto, C. (2023). Disrupting Data: Developing Technology Integrated Assignments to Teach about Race and Racism. Radical Teacher, 125, 43-53.

Rosa, V. (2021). Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945–1970. In A.Y. Ramos-Zayas and M.M. Rúa (Eds.) Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies (pp.186-196). NYU Press.

Honor

Rosa, V. Interview on Qué Onda--video podcast hosted by Mari Castañeda. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZI9TevT79Q

Was interviewed on Boston Public Radio about research she conducted with students in her Latinxs and Housing seminar. This research was also highlighted in an article by WGBH news on March 7, 2022. Additionally, Rosa chaired a session at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual conference on March 7 and was invited to present her research on race and public housing in New York City at the New England Consortium for Latina/o Studies on March 25, 2022.

Was invited to speak at the closing session for the Fall 2020 Campus Compact Symposium, “Advancing Equity Through Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Transforming Faculty Reward Policies and Practices.” Vanessa also spoke about her research at the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 19 symposium and celebration in November 2020.

Joshua Hotaka Roth

Publication

Roth, J.H. (2019).  Kamikaze Truckers in Postwar Japan. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 9(3), 1-19.

Roth, J.H., Hoko onchi:  Way-finding and the Emergence of Directional Tone-Deafness in Japan, Ethos v. 43 i. 4 (December, 2015):  402-422

Roth, J.H., "Interpreting Minority Experiences of Japan's March 2011 Triple Disasters" (chapter in East Asia and the World, edited by Anne Prescott, M.E. Sharpe).