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Carlos E. Cortés
Professor Emeritus of History
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1969
(951) 827-1487
carlos.cortes@ucr.edu |
A native Californian (but
reared in the Midwest), Carlos E. Cortés has lectured
and consulted widely throughout the United States, Latin
America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on the implications
of diversity for education, government, private business,
and the mass media. Since 1990 he has served on the summer
faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education
and since 1995 on the faculty of the Summer Institute
for Intercultural Communication.
His two most recent books,
The Children Are Watching:
How the Media Teach about Diversity (2000) and The
Making-and Remaking-of a Multiculturalist (2002),
were published by Teachers College Press. His other publications
include Three Perspectives on Ethnicity, Gaúcho
Politics in Brazil and Beyond Language: Social and Cultural
Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students, while
he has edited three major book series, totaling 106 volumes,
on Latinos in the United States
In 2001, Cortés received
the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators'
Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award. His
other awards include two book prizes, UCR's Distinguished
Teaching Award and Faculty Public Service Award, the Distinguished
California Humanist Award, the American Society for Training
and Development's National Multicultural Trainer of the
Year Award, and the California Council for the Social
Studies' Hilda Taba Award.
Cortés has also written
film and television documentaries, has appeared as guest
host on the PBS national television series, "Why
in the World"," is the featured presenteer on
the Video Journal of Education's training video, "Diversity
in the Classroom," and serves as Cultural Consultant
for Nickelodeon's pre-school series, "Dora the Explorer."
He is currently working on two books: Letters to Alana:
An Autobiographical Portrait of an American Family; and
Hollywood's Last Taboo: Interracial Love in American Motion
Pictures.
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