Dr. Meta Mendel-Reyes

Division VI Chair
Associate Professor of Peace and Social Justice and General Studies

At Berea College since 2000

Contact Information:

Office: Carter G. Woodson Center, Room 208
Phone: (859) 985-3940
Fax: (859) 985-3906
Ext: 3940
E-Mail: mendel-reyesm@berea.edu
CPO 2108

Office Hours, Spring 2016:

Tuesday 9-11 am
Thursday 1-3 pm
and by appointment

Class Schedule:

GSTR 210 N (Mon/Wed/Fri: 10:40 am – 11:50 am)
PSJ 205 (Mon/Wed/Fri: 2:40 pm – 3:50 pm)

Biography

Dr. Meta Mendel-Reyes is Associate Professor of Peace and Social Justice and General Studies at Berea College, and Chair of Division VI, the Interdisciplinary division. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been a labor and community organizer, participating in movements with migrant farm workers seeking justice in the fields of California and tenants’ group fighting environmental racism in Philadelphia, among many others.

Degrees

B.A., Politics, University of California at Santa Cruz, 1972
M.A., Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1974
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, 1992

Courses

Peace/Social Justice Theory/Practice
Diversity and Social Justice
Women and African Americans in Politics
Democratic Theory and Practice
Movements
Women in Civil Rights Movement
Conflict Transformation
Writing Seminars
U.S. Traditions
Stories
Multicultural Politics
Stages of Social Change: Activist Theater

Special Interests

Social justice, diversity, community organizing, and democratic theory and practice

Papers and Publications

Remembering Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory (New York: Routledge, 1995).