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6607 HMNSS BLDG.
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Cortes, Carlos E

Professor of History Emeritus

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Cortés serves on the faculties of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, and the Federal Executive Institute. He has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on such topics as: race and ethnicity; multiculturalism; intercultural communication; diversity in the media; multicultural, global, and bilingual education; Hispanic culture; Latin American and Chicano history; and the implications of diversity for education, government, and private business. A consultant to many government agencies, school systems, universities, mass media, private businesses, and other organizations, he has written film and television documentaries, has appeared as guest host on the PBS national television series, Why in the World?, is the featured presenter on the Video Journal of Education's 1994 training video, Diversity in the Classroom, and currently serves as Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's pre-school series, "Dora the Explorer" and "Go, Diego, Go!" He also performs his one-person autobiographical play, "A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage."

Former Institution

 None

Degrees

PhD History 1969

University of New Mexico

MA Portuguese & Spanish 1965

University of New Mexico

MS Journalism 1957

Columbia University

BFT Foreign Trade 1962

American Institute for Foreign Trade

BA Communications & Public Policy 1956

University of California, Berkeley

Awards

Faculty Public Service Award, UC Riverside (1992)
Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Riverside (1976)
Emeritus Professor of the Year Award, UC Riverside (2004)
Distinguished California Humanist Award of the California Council for the Humanities (1980)
Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (2001)
Inspiration Award of the California Association for Bilingual Education (2005)
Hilda Taba Award of the California Council for the Social Studies (1995)
Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship (1986-87)
Statewide Humanities Lecturer of the California Council for the Humanities (1992)
Smithsonian Institution Public Lecturer (1993-94)
National Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award of the American Society for Training and Development (1989)
Japan Foundation Travel Fellowship (1986)
Bildner Fellow of the Association of American Schools in South America (1983)


Research Area

Mass media; U.S. and global diversity; multicultural education; ethnic history; Latin American and Chicano history.

Publications

His recent books include The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity, (New York: Teachers College Press, 2000) and The Making -- and Remaking -- of a Multiculturalist (New York: Teachers College Press, 2002). He is also co-author of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Series and Senior Consultant for the McDougal Littell World History Series. Among his other publications are: Three Perspectives on Ethnicity: Blacks, Chicanos, and Native Americans; Understanding You and Them; Gaúcho Politics in Brazil; A Filmic Approach to the Study of Historical Dilemmas; Images and Realities of Four World Regions; and Beyond Language: Social and Cultural Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students, while he has edited three major book series, The Mexican American (21 volumes), The Chicano Heritage (55 volumes), and Hispanics in the United States (30 volumes). He is currently working on three books: Rose Hill; Diversity Made Simple; and Hollywood's Last Taboo: A History of Interracial Love in American Motion Pictures.