Kegley Institute of Ethics announces 2023-24 Faculty Fellows

Three faculty members receive funding for ethics projects

By California State University, Bakersfield

March 23^rd, 2023

Three California State University, Bakersfield faculty members have been given the opportunity to conduct their own ethics projects as part of the Kegley Institute of Ethics’ Faculty Fellows Program.

The institute has announced that its 2023-34 Faculty Fellows recipients are Associate Professor of Reproducible Media Phil Chang, Ethnic Studies Lecturer Dr. Jeremiah Sataraka and Associate Professor of Spanish Dr. Maryann Parada.

Dr. Parada will receive a course release to conduct her project, while Chang and Dr. Sataraka have each been awarded $2,500 summer stipends.

"We are thrilled to be able to help support the work of this year's KIE Faculty Fellows,” said KIE Associate Director Dr. Nate Olson. “Their fellowship projects reflect the amazing variety of ethically important work that CSUB faculty across the university are producing. We are especially happy to support projects this year that highlight the diverse ways we engage in ethical issues, including through broadcast media, photography and oral histories.”

Here is more information about the 2023-24 Faculty Fellows.

Kegley Institute of Ethics announces 2023-24 Faculty Fellows

Dr. Maryann Parada, Associate Professor of Spanish

Dr. Parada teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish language and linguistics at CSUB. She received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dr. Parada’s research interests are in the areas of bilingualism, the interaction between people of different languages or dialects as well as heritage language acquisition and development. She also studies the impact of gender on naming practices in Latin America, including how Hispanic names are portrayed in news and other mainstream U.S. media.

Other interests include translation/interpreting and language policy, specifically language access in public services and dual language education. Dr. Parada has been published in several publications, including the Heritage Language Journal, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Names: A Journal of Onomastics as well as the Journal of Language, Identity and Education.

Dr. Parada will conduct a linguistic analysis of how Latinx characters are portrayed on primetime television for her Faculty Fellows project.

“I'm thrilled to have been selected as a KIE fellow. I support their important work, and to be associated with them is an honor,” she said.

In her proposal, Dr. Parada noted that her project “will help draw attention to areas for improvement in the equitable representation and authentic portrayals of Spanish speakers, Spanish and bilingualism in the broad realm of primetime television.”

Phil Chang, Assistant Professor of Reproducible Media

Chang received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and his bachelor’s from the University of California, Irvine. His solo artwork has been featured in exhibitions at Los Angeles art centers and museums including The Fulcrum, The Suburban, The California Museum of Photography and LAXART. Chang’s work has also been part of group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eastman Museum in New York and Transformer Station in Ohio.

Chang has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Photography Is Magic and The Photograph as Contemporary Art. His own publications include the 2010 book “Four Over One,” published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Chang’s Faculty Fellows project is a series of unfixed photographs that will be part of an exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in April 2024. These photographs are not set in place in a darkroom like traditional photos but are rather exposed to light and then left unfixed in their frames. This causes the initially legible image to slowly disappear over the course of five hours.

These unfixed photographs are intended to make the viewer think about the nature, permanence and intention of photography. Chang said his work aims to highlight the shortcomings of the medium and challenge viewers with having an emotional response to something that is changing before their very eyes.

“The photographs actively require viewers to initiate this transformation during the exhibition of the work, where their response to a photograph that disappears places them within an ethical set of conditions concerning the viewership of artworks, the desire for photographic permanence and the questions that surround how we consume works of art,” he said.

Dr. Jeremiah Sataraka, Ethnic Studies Lecturer

Dr. Sataraka teaches Pacific studies, Asian American studies and ethnic studies courses at CSUB and is the co-chair of the LGBTQ+ Pride Faculty & Staff affinity group. His primary research interests include Ocean Critical Race Theory — a type of critical race theory that focuses on oceanic populations, such as Pacific Islanders — and increasing the visibility of Queer and/or Transgender Pacific Islander (QTPI) activists and communities.

Dr. Sataraka received his Ph.D. in cultural studies and social thought in education from Washington State University. Prior to coming to CSUB, he worked for the Central Valley Pacific Islander Alliance as well as a nonprofit organization in Fresno that serves primarily Southeast Asian communities.

Dr. Sataraka will conduct oral history interviews documenting the experiences of QTPI activist leaders and compile them into an oral history website for his project.

“I feel honored and excited to be a KIE Faculty Fellow!” he said. “As an ethnic studies, critical race theory and queer studies scholar, I'm looking forward to increasing people's awareness of QTPI activists!”