The 2007 Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education
Thank you to all of prestigious invited speakers who contributed their scholarly research to the 24th Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education
William E. Cross, Ph.D.
City University of New York
Carl A. Grant, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Frederick T. L. Leong, Ph.D.
Michigan State University
Marie L. Miville, Ph.D.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D.
New York University
Suzette L. Speight, Ph.D.
Loyola University, Chicago
Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D.
Teachers College, Columbia University
Ronald Takaki, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
Chalmer E. Thompson, Ph.D.
Indiana University at Indianapolis
Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
Janet E. Helms Award
We are thrilled to announce that the recipient of the 17th Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship is Joseph G. Ponterotto, Ph.D.
Dr. Ponterotto is a Professor of Education and Coordinator of the Mental Health Counseling Program at Fordham University, Lincoln Center campus, New York. He received his Ph.D. (1985) in Counseling Psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, under the mentorship of Jesus Manuel Casas. Dr. Ponterotto holds Fellow status in the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) and the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Ponterotto is a renowned author in the areas of multicultural psychology and education. He is co-author or co-editor of ten books on these subjects, including the highly regarded Handbooks of Multicultural Counseling and the Handbooks of Multicultural Assessment: Clinical, Psychological, and Educational Applications. His most recent book, co-authored with Shawn Utsey and Paul Pedersen, is Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents (2nd ed., 2006).
In addition to his consistent efforts in producing high quality books, Dr. Ponterotto is an active researcher, having authored over 80 peer reviewed journal articles primarily in the areas of multicultural counseling and training. Independent scholarly impact studies published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, The Counseling Psychologist, the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, the Journal of Counseling and Development, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology have identified Dr. Ponterotto as one of the most prolific, often-cited, and impactful multicultural psychology scholars in North America.
Critical to his identity as a teacher, Dr. Ponterotto has mentored 30 doctoral dissertations, the majority in the area of multicultural counseling. He is an active editorial consultant to journals and book publishers, and he recently completed a three-year term as the Associate editor for the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Dr. Ponterotto is an active multicultural consultant to school districts, universities, hospitals and mental health agencies nationwide.
We are very pleased to present Joseph G. Ponterotto with the 17th Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship.
Social Justice Action Award
We are thrilled to announce that the recipient of the 4th Annual Social Justice Action Award is Ronald Takaki, Ph.D.
The award commemorates Dr. Takaki's outstanding work in writing a more accurate history of diverse groups including Americans, Chicanos, Native Americans, and various European immigrant groups. The grandson of Japanese plantation laborers in Hawaii, he is committed to dispelling the myths and stereotypes associated with people of color, particularly Asian Americans. Dr. Takaki is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught over 10,000 students during 34 years of teaching.
One of the most preeminent scholars of our nation's diversity, Dr. Takaki received his Ph.D. in American history from Berkeley in 1967 and then was hired by UCLA to teach the school's first Black History course. While there, he helped to found the UCLA Centers for African-American, Asian-American, Chicano, and Native-American Studies. Returning to Berkeley in 1967, Dr. Takaki has served as Chairperson of the Ethnic Studies department and currently is an advisor to the Ethnic Studies Ph.D. Program, the first of its kind in the country.
In addition to his teaching, Dr. Takaki has presented throughout the world. In 1987, Professor Takaki was invited to Armenia by the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union to present a paper comparing race and ethnicity in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. In 1990, he was invited to Moscow by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to discuss the impact of the Cold War on racial and ethnic conflicts. The Council on Foreign Relations hosted a debate between Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Dr. Takaki, in 1997, at the opening plenary session of its conference on America's diversity and America's foreign policy. Dr. Takaki also has lectured in Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria, and South Africa.
A prolific writer, Dr. Takaki is the author of 11 books, including: A Pro-Slavery Crusade, a study of the Southern ideological defense of slavery; Violence in the Black Imagination, a study of 19th century Black novelists; Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii; the critically acclaimed Iron Cages, a study of race and culture in 19th century America; the Pulitzer Prize nominated Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans and A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, which was published in June 1993. He also has been invited to discuss issues of race on several national television programs, including: NBC's "Today Show," ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," CNN's "International Hour," "Cross Fire," and "Jim Lehrer Newshour." Furthermore, he has advised both President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, posing an inclusive definition of Americans as a diverse people belonging to one nation.
Dr. Takaki has been awarded honorary doctorates from Wheelock College, the College of Wooster, Macalester College, Northeastern University, the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts College of Art, and Whitman College. In 1988, he was awarded the Goldwin Smith University Lectureship at Cornell University, followed by the Cornell's Distinguished Messenger Lectureship, in 1993.
Takaki is a fellow of the prestigious Society of American Historians, whose membership is limited to 250 individuals, and has been honored with a Distinguishing Teaching Award from Berkeley.
The Los Angeles Times has described Professor Takaki as a "minority Everyman. He is a rare hybrid, a multicultural scholar." The Winter Roundtable is truly honored to have Roanld Takaki as the fourth recipient of the Social Justice Action Award.