Brief
biography: My name is Robert F. Castro and I am an Assistant Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at the California State University, Fullerton. I hold a B.A. in Criminology, Law & Society from U.C. Irvine. A Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and also a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law, where I was a member of the inaugural class in the Program in Public Interest Law & Policy. I am proud to have published articles in the following academic journals: La Raza Law Review; Law & Inequality Journal; Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Societies; PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Journal of Hate Studies; and the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy. I am honored to have been the recipient of several academic awards and honors including: Amicus Historian of Record (2008 U.S. Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief to defend the right of plaintiffs to bring retaliation claims for race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981); O.S.H. Scholar-in-Residence,Office of the New Mexico State Historian (2008); CSU-OGC Faculty Research Award (2008); John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. Brigham Young University (2007); Gilder Lehrman Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance. Yale University. New Haven, CT. (2006); William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Research Grant in American Legal History (2006)> If you'd like to know more about my personal and university background, please go to my other university webpage at http://faculty.fullerton.edu/rcastro/
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