Robert D. Thompson, Jr.

From fall of 1998 to the present, I have served as a founding member of the Ethnic Studies Department at Oregon State University. Having graduated, with a PhD in Sociology, from the University of California, Santa Cruz I was hired after a national search to teach African American Studies in the Department. I have enjoyed teaching the courses that I developed and the research and publishing that I have done on a range of topics from inter-ethnic cooperation in social movements to public health issues. The students at Oregon State University have been a high point for me at the university.