Founders' Day: Recognizing New Emeriti / AE Faculty
November 18, 2009 Inductees
Dallon, Joseph |
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Heed, Thomas |
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Charles Carreras, Ph.D., Professor of History and Latin American Studies began at Ramapo in the summer of 1971 as a founding faculty member. Prior to getting his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he spent two years in the Peace Corps. He was hired to teach and promote the study of Latin America in the School of Interna - tional Studies.
In the early 1980's, he collaborated with other faculty to organize a minor in Latin American Studies which became an important component in the new majors of International Studies and International Business.
He served as the convener of International Studies and Latin American Studies, as well as the History major teaching courses in each in addition to the MALS program. He traveled to Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Mexico researching Inter-American Relations resulting in a number of significant publications focusing on economic and diplomatic relations.
In the last decade, he worked with the Cahill Center to organize and lead a group of students to Mexico as part of the Alternative Break Program. He lead six groups to Oaxaca, and recently initiated a program in Reynosa on the Texas-Mexico border. Under his guidance, students participated in service learn activities and examined issues confronting these regions.
In the last five years, he has served as Vice President and Chief Archivist of the Mahwah Museum. Additionally, he has been instrumental in designing exhibits, developing and implementing educational programs for secondary schools, and promoting programs for the public.
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Dr. Schroyer is a Professor of Sociology-Philosophy in the School of Social Science and Human Services at Ramapo College in N.J. Originally specializing in European Critical Theory, he taught at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City.
His contribution to Ramapo remains building a critical intellectual culture. Believing in building bridges from the world into, and from, the academy has resulted in bringing back to Ramapo many forms of interdisciplinary discourse from his international participations.
He served as a leader of the Other Economic Summit (TOES) for the counter G-8 Summits in the United States in 1990, 1997 and 2004 and participated in national and international economic forums on Alternative Economics. Schroyer was an NGO representative to the Earth Summit in 1992 and to The Commission for Sustainable Development at the United Nations till 1995.
Consequently he organized six semester long Lecture Series on 'Ecological Futures', 'Counter Movements in Science', 'Authoritarianism or Democratization', 'Thinking Globally- Acting Locally, Promises of the Earth Summit', and 'World Sustainability', as well as a symposium on 'The Relevance of Gandhi After 9/11.
A member of the International Network for Cultural Alternatives to Development he helped facilitate gatherings of indigenous leaders from all around the world. At the Bangalore, India conference, Siddhartha, from Fireflies Ashram invited him to bring Americans to India to witness grassroots actions for social change in India. From this beginning in 2000, he founded the Ramapo India, a semester-long Study Abroad program that is now ongoing every year. In 2004 he brought Ramapo students to World Social Forum, in Mumbai, built around the slogan 'Another World is Possible', and argues that nothing can replace encountering real people in their own worlds.
His books include 'Beyond Western Economism: Remembering Other Economic Cultures', (to be published by Routledge Press), 'The Critique of Domination; The Origins and Development of Critical Theory' , Beacon Press, nominated for a National Book Award in 1973; 'A World that Works: Building Blocks for a Just and Sustainable Society' ,The Bootstrap Press (edited in 1997), 'Creating a Sustainable World: Past Experiences and Future Struggles' , Apex Press, (co-edited in 2006) , He has published 25 articles in sociology, anthropology and philosophy journals and books and has lectured and presented papers at over 100 colleges, universities and professional associations in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany,and Brazil;
As a result of participating in Ivan Illich's informal retreats and working with Siddhartha he is now working with 'Meeting Rivers' and other projects generated out of the Fireflies Intercultural Center in India and working on a book on 'Learning in India'.
