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Paul Ortiz Home  Directory Paul Ortiz
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Paul Ortiz
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Associate Professor |
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portiz@ucsc.edu |
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(831) 459-7019 Message |
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Leave of Absence 08-09 and 09-10 Academic years |
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African American history, U.S. social and political history, social documentary, oral history, subaltern studies and theories of resistance, U.S. South, Latino studies, social movements, working class history; history of farm labor; history of farm labor, African diaspora. |
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Not teaching
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Paul Ortiz is an award-winning author and oral historian. He has conducted oral histories with a wide variety of individuals and social movements since the late 1980s first as a labor activist and a radio producer for a public affairs radio program on KAOS-Olympia FM titled“Pathways To Justice.”
During the course of three years as a radio producer, Ortiz interviewed members of freedom movements from South Africa, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, West Virginia, and other parts of the world. As part of his work as an organizer with the United Farm Workers of Washington State, Ortiz interviewed migrant farm workers and labor activists. He also produced a radio documentary on the life of Paul Robeson that was a finalist for a documentary award by the Behind the Veil project. This book received numerous awards including the Carey McWilliams Book Award as well as the Lillian Smith Book Prize by the Southern Regional Council. The book and CD set may be ordered through American RadioWorks.
Ortíz’s interview work with “Behind the Veil” was heard on a four-part documentary program that aired on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition in 2002 and has been re-broadcast on stations in the US and abroad since then.
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Ortiz was a visiting assistant professor in History and Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Beginning in 2001 Ortíz has served as a professor in the Department of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he has also taught and advised in the department’s pioneering
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In 1993, Paul enrolled as a graduate student in Duke University’s He conducted over one hundred and sixty-interviews for “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South,” a National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored documentary project based at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. Prof. Ortíz received his Ph.D. in history from Duke University in 2000.
Ortiz earned his Bachelor's degree from the Evergreen State College in 1990 after transferring from Olympic Community College in his hometown of Bremerton, Washington. Between 1982 and 1986 Ortiz served as a paratrooper and radio operator in the 82nd Airborne Division and Special Forces in Central America. He attained the rank of sergeant and received an honorable discharge in 1986.
Ortiz also worked as the research coordinator for “Behind The Veil” between 1996 and 2001 and was part of the team that received the inaugural Outstanding Oral History Project Award by the Oral History Association. |
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