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The Faculty
 • Gloria Cuadraz, Ph.D.
 • Duku Anokye, Ph.D.
 • Manuel Avalos, Ph.D
 • Luis Cabrera, Ph.D.
 • Shari Collins-Chobanian, Ph.D.
 • Alejandra Elenes, Ph.D
 • Kristin Koptiuch, Ph.D.
 • Ime Ukpanah, Ph.D.

Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Ph.D. Chair, Language, Cultures, and History Department Associate Professor of American Studies Office: FAB N231 Phone: (602) 543-6081 E-mail: epagan@asu.edu Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Professor Pagán is a US cultural and intellectual historian with a particular interest in the US/Mexican borderland. He began at Mesa Community College and went on to receive a BA from Arizona State University and an MA from the University of Arizona in Latin American history, and an AM and Ph.D. from Princeton University in US history. At Princeton he was a member of the Princeton Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, a President's Fellow, and a National Hispanic Scholarship recipient. He also served as an Acting Assistant Dean of Students at Princeton. Before coming to ASU's West campus, Professor Pagán was a faculty member of the Department of History at Williams College, and a senior program officer in the Division of Research Program at the National Endowment for the Humanities, working with Historically Black, Hispanic-serving, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. He has published articles about Latinos in the US in scholarly and popular journals, and in several encyclopedias. His recent book, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in World War II L.A. was published by the University of North Carolina Press. He has held an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, and postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University and at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Professor Pagán also worked with the award-winning PBS series American Experience as the lead historical consultant for the television episode and Web site entitled “Zoot Suit Riot.”