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Diplomas / Degrees

PhD, Graduate School, City University of New York (2002)
MPH, Hunter College, CUNY (1991)

Recent Courses

American Ethnicity
Ethnicity In The United States
First Year Seminar Legacies,Realities & Working Towards A Better Tomorrow
Independent Study Community Building And Development
Independent Study Global Access To Education
Independent Study History Of Chinese People
Independent Study Organizing Asian Communities
Independent Study Racial Images On Television
Independent Study Sociology Inquiry Horse Slaughter In The Us
Levermore First Year Seminar
Levermore Global Scholars Seminar In The Social Sciences
Majors Seminar
Quantitative Research Methods
Quantitative Research Methods Lab
Quantitative Research Methods Lecture
S/T: Sociology Of Power
Social Statistics Lab

Teaching Specializations / Interests

Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Nation
Higher Education
Social Movements
Political Economy
World Systems

Research Interests

Social Inequality
Race Class Gender
Higher Education
Multiculturalism/Diversity
Nationalism
Academic Freedom
Political Economy
World Systems

Grants / Sponsored Research

Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant ($2000,2009)

Fund for Higher Education Faculty Research Fellowship: To compile policy document on retrospective and current assessment of diversity in academic curriculum ($2500, 2005)

City University of New York Diversity Projects Development Fund Grant: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Faculty and Staff Relations, University Office of Compliance and Diversity Programs. To study the historical development of diversity-related curricula in the University ($4000, 2004; $3900, 2005)

Citizens Committee of New York City, New Neighbors Grant: Learning to Learn: From Each Other. Workshops on Immigration with a neighborhood youth organization and campus dialogues ($500, 2002)

City University of New York Dispute Resolution Consortium (CUNY DRC) and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Research Grant ($5000, 1999)

New York City Drug and Alcohol Consortia Programming Mini-Grant (1994)

Maternal Health and Nutrition Research Project, Zimbabwe
Research Assistant for a project in coordination with the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health, sponsored by Earthwatch. Conducted home visits, interviews and data collection in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe (July 1993)

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) Grant Project Coordinator, Project PEP: A Personal Empowerment Program for Substance Abuse Prevention focused on Healthy Living (1991-93)

Books

Bush, Melanie E. L. (2004). Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Book Chapters

Bush, Melanie E L and Roderick D. Bush. (2008). United States Nationalism and Nationalism Post World War II. In David H. Kaplan and Guntram H. Herb (Eds.). Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions. (pp. 1299-1312). Oxford: ABC-CLIO.

Bush, Melanie E L. (2007). "United Statesians: the Nationalism of Empire". In Hernan Vera and Joseph Feagin (Eds.). Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations. (pp. 285-318). New York: Springer.

Bush, Melanie E L. (2006). International and Comparative Literature on Whiteness. In David Roediger, Director; Tim Engles, Ed (Eds.). Towards a Discipline Specific Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies. (pp. 116-132). Urbana-Champaign: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society of the University of Illinois.

Recent Articles

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Bush, Melanie E L. (2009, 4). American Dream or Global Nightmare?. Journal of Global Initiatives, 3 2, Chapter 20

Bush, Melanie E L (Ness, Immanuel. Editor). (2009, 3). The Hollywood Ten. International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest., Blackwell Publishing, 1602-03.

Bush, Melanie E L. (2009, 1). Aaron McGruder and ‘The Boondocks.’. African-American History Reference Series: The Contemporary World. (Paul Finkelman. Editor) New York: Oxford University Press., 236

Ginger Macheski, Kathleen S. Lowney, Jan Buhrmann and Melanie E. L. Bush. (2008, 1). Facilitating Active Student Engagement and Dynamic Learning in Theory, Research Methods, and Statistics. Teaching Sociology. An Official Journal of the American Sociological Association, 36. Number 1, 42-48

Bush, Melanie E L. (2007, 2). Extended View: Power to the People? Review of Race, Politics, and Community Development in U.S. Cities (The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series) by James Jennings. Volume 594. London: Sage Publications. (July 2004). (Kushnick, Louis, Editor) Sage Race Relations Abstracts, 32:1, 38-41

Invited Presentations and Lectures

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Bush, Melanie E L (01 December 2008). Un-Pledging Allegiance: The US Nation Makes the African Connection. Transnational Africa and Globalization Symposium. Bowdoin College

Bush, Melanie E L (05 June 2008). How Do People Become White. How Class Works Conference, SUNY Stonybrook

Bush, Melanie E L (01 March 2008). Critical Studies of Whiteness and Racial Inequality Discussant: . American Educational Research Association (AERA) 106th Annual Conference New York City

Bush, Melanie E L (01 March 2008). Change Happens on panel Dialectics of Liberation: Praxis for a New Century. Left Forum (Cooper Union, New York City

Bush, Melanie E L (01 October 2007). How Change Happens and Why We Resist it… As If We Could.”. The Regional Institute University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

Conference Presentations and Papers

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Bush, Melanie E L (27 March 2009). US Empire, National Belonging and Resistance in the 21st Century. Does Discrimination Shape Identity?” International Conference. University of Paris XIII Centre de Recherches Interculturelles sur les Domaines Anglophones et Francophones , Paris, France

Bush, Melanie E L (01 August 2008). Un-Pledging Allegiance: Waking up from the "'American' Dream". American Sociological Association, Boston, MA, 15

Bush, Melanie E L and Deborah L. Little (01 August 2008). Sociological Praxis: Civic Engagement and/or Social Activism. Critical Sociology/Society for the Study of Social Problems, Boston, MA, 22

Bush, Melanie E L (01 November 2007). The Belly of the Beast: U.S. Empire, National Belonging and Resistance at the Turn of the 21st Century. Joint International Conference on Globalization: Migration, Citizenship and Identity., University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 16

Bush, Melanie E L (01 August 2007). Presenter for Workshop: Innovative Teaching Practices for Difficult Subjects. American Sociological Association (ASA), New York, NY, 5

Other Scholarly / Artistic Work

American Anthropological Association (AAA)106th Annual Conference, Council on Anthropology and Education, Invited Session Panel Organizer, Diversity and Power in Higher Education (Washington, D. C. November 2007)

Society for the Study of Social Problems 57th Annual Meeting. Session Organizer and Presider, Human Rights, Social Justice and the Future of Higher Education (New York, August 2007)

Bush, M E L. Review of "The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism. Fayetteville, NC: Camino Press."

Bush, M E L and Bush, R D. Tensions in the American Dream: The Imperial Nation Confronts the Liberation of Nations. Temple University Press. Forthcoming.

Guest Editor. "Multiculturalism and Higher Education" Special Issue of the Electronic Magazine for Multicultural Education Volume 8. No. 2. Fall 2006.

Honors and Accomplishments

Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society (Adelphi University Circle) Inductee 2008

AU Women's History Month Recognition Award (Student Government Association and Center for Student Involvement) for Outstanding Leadership, Service, and Commitment to Excellence (one of two recipients) 2008

AU Black History Month Recognition Award (SGA/CSI) 2008

Nominated for "Professor of the Year" 2006-07 by Adelphi University students.

Favorite Teacher selected by Brooklyn College Sociology majors of the 2006 graduating class for the Broeklundian Yearbook.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan Minority Business Club. Book of the Month September
2004. Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham: Maryland. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Duke University Office of Institutional Equity Book of the Month September 2004. Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness. Lanham: Maryland. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

Praxis Award 2003: Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists, Second Prize winner. Recognizing excellence for outstanding achievement in translating knowledge into action successfully demonstrating the effectiveness and relevance of anthropology to contemporary social problems

Professional Activities

WBAI City Watch, Interviewed by William DiFazio about the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (New York, August 2007)

International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry Third International Congress Shifting Identities Panel Chair. University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign. May 2007


American Sociological Association (ASA)
101st Annual Conference: Panel co-organizer with Encarnacion, T. (Howard University)& Discussant International Explorations of Intersectionality� sponsored by the Section on Race, Gender and Class (Panel proposal refereed) (Montreal, August 2006)100th Annual Conference: Panel Co-organizer with Scott, J. (NYU) and Presider Education and Democracy: The Salience of Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 21st Century sponsored by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Panel proposal refereed)
(Philadelphia, August 2005)

Southern Sociological Society (SSS) 69th Annual Meeting: Presider and Discussant, Public Development Policy and Foreign Investment(March 2006, New Orleans)

American Anthropological Association 105th Annual Conference, Discussant, Race, Power, and the Status Quo: Examining Whiteness in Schools.Council on Anthropology and Education. (Panel proposal refereed) (San Jose, CA, November 2006)and 104th Annual Conference, Panel Organizer& Presider, Multiculturalism and "Intellectual Diversity"? The Hidden Agenda of Current Calls for Academic Freedom with scholars from around the U.S. (Panel proposal refereed) (Washington, D.C. 2005)

National Women�s Studies Association
Teaching Resources on Racism, White Privilege and Anti-White Supremacy. Three syllabi included. (2006).
Women of Color Caucus Student Paper Awards Reviewer (2005)

American Sociological Association Section on Racial&Ethnic Minorities
Associate Editor,REMarks Newsletter
(2002-03)
Council Member/StudentRepresentative
(2000-02)
ASA Section on Race, Class and Gender
Council Member (2005-2006)
Nominated as Chair for 2006.
Election June 2006.

American Anthropological Association
Council on Anthropology and Education
Chair, Committee on Multicultural
&Multilingual Education, 2005-06;
Co-Chair 2004-05

Invited Manuscript Reviewer:
Journal of Higher Education, Leonard L. Baird, Ed. Columbus Ohio: Ohio State University Press. (2004, 2008)
International Journal of Multicultural Education. Heewon Chang, Ed. Eastern University, St. Davids, PA. 2006
Journal of Race, Gender & Class Special Issue. Anthony Lemelle, Ed. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 2006
Social Forces. Judith Blau Ed. Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina.(2004, 2005)
Social Problems: The Official Journal of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Amy Wharton, Ed. Washington State University (2006), James A. Holstein, Stephen L. Franzoi and Carol A. Archibold. Eds. Milwaukee: Marquette University (2004-05) (Multiple reviews)
Journal of Higher Education. Leonard L. Baird, Ed. Columbus Ohio: Ohio State University Press. (2004)
The Sociological Quarterly: Official Journal of the Midwest Sociological Society. Peter Kivisto, Ed: Rock Island, Illinois: Augustana College. (2004)
Professional Staff Congress of the City University of New York Research Grants in Political Science, and Law and Criminal Justice. Invited Reviewer. (2005, 2006, 2007)

Community and Corporate Leadership

2008. Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World – A Review Journal. Manchester, England: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Center, University of Manchester. Editorial Board Member.

American Sociological Association Task Force on Academic Freedom and Scientific Integrity, Member, 2007-09

BRAVO (Brooklyn Asian Voice Organization) Essay Contest Judge