Izabel Solis
izabelsolis@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-4132
Department Chair and Professor, Ethnic Studies
- PHD, University of California, San Diego; Ethnic Studies (2008)
- MA, University of California, San Diego; Ethnic Studies (2004)
- MA, University of California, Los Angeles; Afro-American Studies (1999)
- BA, Sonoma State University, Philosophy (1995)
Jesse Mills, PhD, has been faculty in Ethnic Studies since Fall 2006. His teaching, research, artistic and activist work focuses on Black liberation, immigration and refugee studies, social movements, Indigenous decolonization, and anti-racist philanthropy. In San Diego’s Somali community, the primary site for his research, Mills has served as an organizer, advocate, ESL teacher, youth mentor, educational consultant, organizational advisor, and community member.
Areas of Expertise
Black Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Areas of Interest
Mills’ main areas of research are Somali American community organizing and political consciousness, and education-assessment, curriculum and instruction.
Mills teaches introductory and advanced courses in comparative ethnic studies and African American studies. His courses emphasize interdisciplinary inquiry in cultural studies, ethnography, and historiography centered on community service learning and participatory action research methodologies. His upper division seminars include African American Civil Rights, African American Music and Culture, African American Panethnicity, Race and Health Disparities, and Student Movements in Higher Education