Room 5419
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
(212) 817-8438
clacls@gc.cuny.edu
Suzanne Oboler 

Professor and Editor of the journal Latino Studies
Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, John Jay College
of Criminal Justice/CUNY

445 West 59th Street,
R room 1554N
New York, NY 10019

Phone: (212) 237-8751
Fax: (212) 484-1113

soboler@jjay.cuny.edu

Suzanne Oboler is Professor of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at the City University of New York. Professor Oboler received her PhD from New York University in 1991, and has previously taught at Brown University and the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the Founding Editor of the international academic journal, Latino Studies, and Co-Editor in Chief of the 4-volume Oxford Encyclopedia on Latinos and Latinas in the United States (2005). She is the author of Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of Representation (1995), and co-editor of Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos (2005). She has also edited the anthology, Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemmas of Belonging (2006), and the forthcoming Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prison (2009). Professor Oboler has published a number of articles on Afro-Latin(o) Americans, citizenship, Latino/a identity national belonging and race in the Americas, most recently, “Race, Social Justice, and the Law in the Americas: Redefining the Terms of the Debate” (with Anani Dzidzienyo), “Latinos and the (Re)Racializing of U.S. Society and Politics (2007); “Nuevas Formas/viejos moldes: la discriminación racial contra los Latinos en Estados Unidos, después del 11 de septiembre, 2001 (2007); “Citizenship and Belonging: The Construction of US Latino Identity Today” (2007) and “History on the Move…. Revisiting The Suffering of the Immigrant from the Latino Perspective” (2006).