STPEC Program Director
E-mail: hgphan@english.umass.edu
Associate Professor of English and American Studies
W335 South College
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley
Fields of interest: Law and Literature; African American Studies; Asian American Studies.
Website: www.umass.edu/english/member/hoang-g-phan
STPEC Program Staff
All staff can be contacted at: STPEC Program Office, 301 Machmer Hall, 413 545-0043
Hoang G. Phan
Graciela Monteagudo
STPEC Associate Director
E-mail: gracielamonteagudo@sbs.umass.edu
Lecturer, STPEC Program
Honors Program Director
309 Machmer Hall
Ph.D., Anthropology, UMass Amherst, 2011
Certificates from UMass Amherst in
Latin American Studies (2011) and Women's Studies (2009)
MFA-IA, Goddard College, Vermont (2001)
Fields of interest: Neoliberalism, Women of South America
Monica M. Garcia
Director of Undergraduate Advising
E-mail: mmgarcia@umass.edu
Phone: 413 545-1597
305 Machmer Hall
M.S.W., Community Organization and Planning, Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY, NY
B.S., Psychology, B.A., Anthropology, University of Florida
Areas of Interest: Solidarity Economy, Food Security, Education and Anti-racist Youth Leadership.
Shemon Salam
Lecturer
E-mail: ssalam@umass.edu
Lecturer in Social Thought and Political Economy
307 Machmer Hall
Ph.D., Geography, CUNY, Graduate Center
M.A., South Asian Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Fields of Interest: Black Radical Tradition; racial capitalism; Black Geographies; South Asia Studies
Dr. Shemon Salam is currently working on a book, tentatively titled Limits of the Black Radical Tradition. He looks at the rise and fall of the Black Liberation Movement and class struggle in the 20th century. But this defeat is not permanent, Limits sees the return of the tradition in the form of riots, revolutions, and wars.
Shemon has been an activist since 2001. He has organized against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been involved in anti-racist struggles around U.S. bases in South Korea, Islamophobia, and police brutality. He was involved in Occupy Wall Street and organizing fast food workers in New York City.
