Staff

Interim Director-- Professor José Luis Morín

A distinguished expert in international criminal justice, human rights, and the history of Latina/o communities, Professor José Luis Morín of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, was selected in the summer of 2006 by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein to serve as Interim Director of the CUNY Latino Faculty Initiative. Professor Morín's charge, working closely with both the CUNY Central Office and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies located at Hunter College, CUNY, to develop and implement outreach strategies throughout the United States in order to identify, cultivate, and encourage candidates for consideration for tenure-track positions at CUNY campuses.

At John Jay College of Criminal Justice, José Luis Morín is an associate professor and chairperson of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department. He is also a member of the faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Criminal Justice. He teaches in the areas of domestic and international criminal justice, civil rights and international human rights, race and ethnicity in the United States, Latina/o studies, and U.S.-Latin America relations. Prior to joining the faculty at John Jay College, he served as an advocate on indigenous Hawaiian rights issues and was a visiting professor at the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where he taught courses on international law and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. His other experiences in the fields of civil rights and international human rights include work with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Professor Morín was one of ten individuals selected nationwide for the HACU-Kellogg Leadership Fellows Program for 2005-2006. He is author of Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States: Perspectives and Approaches (Carolina Academic Press, 2005). A second edition of the book is forthcoming in 2007, with a preface by Professor Richard Delgado. He holds a B.A. degree in political science from ColumbiaUniversity and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.