Friends and colleagues celebrating the founding of the CCDE in the Spring of 2015

Friends and colleagues celebrating the founding of the CCDE in the Spring of 2015. Standing left to right: Michelle Habell-Pallán, Andrea Otáñez, Madhavi Murty, Manoucheka Celeste, Ralina, Herman Gray, Phil Garland, Stephanie Smallwood, Lisa B. Thompson, Sonnet Retman. Seated left to right: LeiLani Nishime, Ron Krabill, Erika Samson

 

Ralina L. Joseph

I received my B.A. in American Civilization from Brown University and M.A. and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. I joined the University of Washington, Seattle’s Communication Department in 2005 straight from grad school, and have risen through the ranks from Assistant Professor to Professor and Associate Dean of Equity and Justice in the graduate school. My books and articles probe questions of race and racism in our world today while my teaching and facilitation seeks to answer these questions by providing tangible tools to change the world around us. I strive to be a scholar whose work remains relevant to my community. My community work coalesced in one important way in 2005 when I founded the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE).

Select Awards

Apex Award of Excellence (for “Prying the Doors Open,” 2022); Delta Kappa Gamma Educators Book Award (for Generation Mixed, 2022); Marsha Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award, University of Washington (2022); ACLS/Mellon Scholars & Society Fellowship (2019-20, read about my project here); International Communication Association Outstanding Book of the Year Award (for Postracial Resistance, 2019); Barclay Simpson Prize for Scholarship in Public (for Interrupting Privilege project, 2021); University of Washington Presidential Term Professorship (Endowed Professorship, 2018-23); University of Washington Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award (2018); CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Silver Award For Diversity Programs (for “Interrupting Privilege,” 2017); Ethnic Cultural Center Faculty Mentorship Award, University of Washington (2017); Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, University of Washington (2017); Woman of Courage Award, University of Washington Women’s Center (2017); GO-MAP (Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program) Faculty Diversity Leadership Award, University of Washington (Inaugural recipient, 2013); Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty (now Citizens and Scholars, formerly Woodrow Wilson/Mellon) (2010-11); Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship (2009-10); University of California President’s Dissertation Fellowship (2004-5); American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellow (2003-4)