[Peace] "Free Trade Refugees: From Chiapas to the Prairie," a documentary / IMC / Thurs. Aug. 9; 8pm

[Karen Medina]

Documentary screening.
The director, Carol Huang, will be present for this screening.*

"Free Trade Refugees: From Chiapas to the Prairie," a documentary film
about Mexican migrant workers in the US Midwest. Directed by Carol
Huang. Executive Producer, Maria Isabel Silva Iturralde. Ten-year
research on a group of peasants from a small village in Chiapas who
tell the story of their lives and work in the US.

Thursday, August 9, at 8pm,
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. 202 South Broadway, Urbana, IL
Admission free.

Narration by Aaron Amram, post-production by Bogdan Heretiou, music by
Jacob Barton, Andrew Heathwaite & Mark Enslin.

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* Below is a research biograpy of the director, Carol Huang, taken from:
http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/education/faculty/chuang.cfm

Subject Areas: Educational Policy, Social Foundations, Education
History and Multicultural Education

Ph.D. Dissertation: "The Soft Power of Education and the Formation of
a Chinese American Intellectual Community at Urbana-Champaign,
1905-1954", 2001. One chapter. The Education of C.C. Wang, won an
international biographical literature award in 2001.

Academic and Professional Honors:
Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies, Service Learning Fellowship, 2006.

Invited to present "Chinese Students at UIUC from 1905 to 2005" to the
Tsinghua Delegation led by President Gu Binglin at LevisFacultyCenter,
University of Illinois at U-C on Feb. 11. 2006, sponsored by the
Office of International Studies and Faculty International
Collaboration at University of Illinois at U-C. The presentation was
based on Dr. Huang's Dissertation.

International Biographical Literature Award: "The Education of C.C.
Wang-the First Chinese Ph.D. in Railway Administration, UIUC. 1910"
China Times, Oct. 15, 2001.

Visiting Scholarship: Department of Educational Policy Studies,
University of Illinois at U-C. June to August, 2006. Department of
Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at U-C, June to
August, 2005.

International Friendship Tour Grant Dr. Patch Adams' Tour to China and
Tibet Grantee, Summer 2004.

Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Southern IllinoisUniversity at
Edwardsville, 2003.

PT3 grant for working on an on-line self-assessment tool for students
in the EducationSchool for Illinois Professional Standards. 2003.

Faculty Summer Technology Institute Grant Award to have a five-day
seminar on Technology at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

Recognition as one of the Founders of Awakening Magazine-A feminist
Magazine in Taiwan, Award at its 25 anniversary, 2003.

Invited presentation on "Insinuating the Social Foundations into
Teacher Education" American Education Studies annual meeting, 2003.

Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Southern IllinoisUniversity at
Edwardsville, 2002.

Asian American Studies Committee, Dissertation Travel Grant,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.

Asian American Studies Committee, Research Travel Grant, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-1999.

Educational Policy Studies Department, UIUC, Travel Grant, 1997-1999.

U.S Department of Education: Bilingual Education Fellowship, 1999.

U.S. Department of Education: Bilingual and Special Education
Fellowship, 1989-1991.

Asian Arts Council Grantee, 1990 to work on a project with 2001 Nobel
Laureate Gao XingJian on his theatre project "Escape" at the
GuggenheimMuseum.

Asian Arts Council Grantee, 1990 to arrange a one-month New York City
theater tour for Gao Xingjian.

American Jewish Congress Grantee, 1986. The grant provided a two-week
tour of Israel guided by the Director of the organization Rabbi
Michael Miller which resulted in my subsequent writings on Israel in
Chinese for Chinese Press in the United States and China from 1987-89.
Interviewed Itzhak Shamir, and the Palestinian mayor of Bethlehem and
others.

Featured in the New York Times as a Chinese crime reporter, 1985.

Organizer of International Conferences:
Acting for Change: Chinese Women in Politics and Media.  Symposium for
the 20th Anniversary of the Center on Women and Gender in Global
Perspectives of the University of Illinois at U-C, Oct, 20-22, 2000.

Comparative Research on Chinese and American Education held at the
University of Illinois, sponsored by The Department of Educational
Policy Studies, 1997.

Selected Service:
Secretary and Newsletter Editor, Asian American Special Interest
Group, American Education Researchers' Association, 2005-present..
National Academic Organization:
History of Education Association annual conference paper proposal
review committee, 2004 to present.
American Educational Researcher Association, Division F paper proposal
reviewer, 2000 to present.
American Educational Researcher Association, SIG on Asian American
Education, annual conference, proposal reviewer, 2000 to present.
Tcrecord Paper Reviewer, 2001-present.
Chair of a panel on "Integrating 'the other' into American Education"
at the annual conference of History of Education Association's annual
conference, 2003.
Chair of a panel on "Democracy, Multiculturalism and Educational
Reform" at the annual conference of Northern American Taiwanese
Studies Association, June 2002.
A member of Curriculum Development Subcommittee of the Asian American
Committee at the University of Illinois, 1999-2000.
Video Artist for Asian American Committee at the University of
Illinois at U-C, 1999-2001.
A member of the Organizing Committee of the Mid-Illinois Chinese
American Association, 1998-1999.


Education
Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, Universityof Illinoisat Urbana-Champaign,
M.Ed. in Bilingual and Special Education. (Completed all work required
for the degree.), New York University.
M.A. in Theater Arts, Michigan State University.
B.A. in English Literature,Tamkang University, Taiwan.


Courses Regularly Taught
School and American Society, School and Society with a writing focus,
Urban School in American Society, Adolescence Learning and Development

Office Hours:  Wednesday 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.


Research Interests
Current Documentary and Research Projects,
Migrant Education,
Mexican Migrant workers in the Midwest,
Latino Migrant Workers in Chinese Restaurants.


Publications
Invited Book Chapter and Refereed Journals:
"It Takes More than Two Villages to Bring Migrant Teens to School:
Schooling of Recently Arrived Mexican Migrant Teens in the Midwest
Rural Towns" Carol Huang & Maria Isabel Silva, in Invisible Children,
ed. by Sue Books, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2006

"Confronting Issues of Oppression in the University: Creating Space
for Faculty Dialogue, Reflection and Action" in Teaching Inclusively
pp.211-224. 2006

"Concerns of Teachers about Technology Integration in the USA"
European Journal of Teacher Education, Vol, 28, No. 1, March 2005,
pp.35-47 Yuliang Liu and Carol Huang.

"Contestation of Mission Home Education of Chinese Women:
Historiography of Nineteenth Century Chinese Immigrant Women"
Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, an on-line journal's special
edition on Social Justice Leadership, Kelly McKerrow and Sharon Lee,
eds (2005).

"Contestation of Mission Home Education of Chinese Women:
Historiography of Nineteenth Century Chinese Immigrant Women" in a
book on Social Justice Education, McKerrow, Kelly & Lee, Sharon, eds.
(2006)

"Educational History of Asian Americans in the Midwest" Encyclopedia
of the Midwest, 2004.

"The Western Military Academy: A Chinese American Military School
1902-1911", as a chapter in Situating Academy Historically: Higher
Schooling and American Social Life, 1740 to 1940, edited by Nancy
Beadie, Routledge Press, 2002.

Book Reviews:
The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial
China by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, 2005, Cambridge: Harvard University
Press. (forthcoming in History of Education Quarterly, 2007).

Collies and Cane: Race, Labor and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, by
Jung Moon-Ha. (forthcoming in the Journal of African American History,
2007)

Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization
and Globalization in Latin America, Kaufman, Nelson eds. tcrecord 2005

Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, New York: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003.in Educational Studies, 2005.

Education Denied: Costs and Remedies by Katarina Tomasevski, London:
Zed Books, 2003. The review was published by tcrecord in its annual
Record Books Vol. 106, number 5, May 2004.

Ethnography and Education Policy Across the Americas, Bradley,
Levinson, Padawer, and Elvir, eds., Bloomington, Ind: University of
Indiana Press, 2003. the review was published by tcrecord 2/18/2003.

Monograph:
"The Educational Opportunity of New Americans in St. Louis"-an online
resource guide for new immigrants in multiple language, sponsored by
Focus St. Louis at its website. 2004.