Timothy Dunn
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Social Problems
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Racial and Culturual Minorities | Immigration |
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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology in the Sociology Department, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University. I began working at SU in the fall of 1999, several months after completing my Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. My dissertation is a case-study of immigration enforcement and the Border Patrol in the El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua portion of the US-Mexico border, centering on bureaucracy, human rights, and civic action for social change. I have finished an updated version of this as a book manuscript and the University of Texas Press has reviewed it and agreed to publish it. The book is tentatively titled: Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso, Texas Operation that Remade US Border Enforcement. I am currently working on revisions required by by UT Press and will turn in my final draft to UT Press this fall 2006. I have previously written a book on border enforcement entitled The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992: Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home (1996, Center for Mexican American Studies, UT-Austin). In my recent research, I have been studying Latino immigration in the local Del-Mar-Va area, in conjunction with Dr. Ana Maria Aragones, an SU visiting Fulbright scholar from Mexico during 2000-2001. We have a chapter on this (“Recent Mexican Migration to the Rural Del-Mar-Va Peninsula: Human Rights vs. Citizenship Rights in a Local Context”) in an anthology published in 2005 (New Destinations of Mexican Immigration in the United States: Community Formation, Local Responses and Inter-Group Relations, edited by Víctor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León, editors). Dr. Aragones and I have jointly published several other related publications on our on this topic research in academic journals and anthologies published in Mexico and one published in South Korea (!). Relatedly, I completed writing a report ("Project Adelante Needs Assessment Report of Hispanic Immigrants on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for the Eastern Shore Regional Library," co-author Amy Liebman) based largely on a lengthy Fall 2003 survey of 185 Hispanic immigrants in the area, a project I co-led with Dr. Aragones and the results of which are intended to help better inform area libraries and other social service providers about this rapidly growing population and to better serve them. I have presented our research findings this various state and local audiences of policy-makers, commissions and social service providers.
As a faculty member at SU I have the opportunity to pursue my main interest, teaching and interacting with students. My classes generally feature a good deal of student interaction, active participation and discussion, which is made possible by SU's relatively small class sizes. I am the internship coordinator for the Sociology department, and I am a strong proponent of service- and experiential-learning. In the future I hope to aid the establishment of study-abroad/international exchange programs between SU and universities in Mexico. I am also engaged in community service work related to recent Latino immigration to this area. In general, I strive to build cross-disciplinary bridges with students and faculty around issues of mutual interest, such as Latin American Studies, Border Studies, Human Rights, International Migration, etc.
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