CEJ Leadership
Greg Freeland, Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Equality and Justice
Dr. Freeland received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Comparative Politics with an emphasis on the Latin America/Caribbean region.
He currently chairs CLU's Political Science Department and coordinates the Ethnic Studies Minor. He also advises CLU's Model United Nations program, and has won CLU's Diversity Professor of the Year awards in 2004 and 2006.
Dr. Freeland teaches classes on politics of the Latin America/Caribbean region, the Civil Rights Movement and multiculturalism, race, and politics. He has published articles such as, "The Role of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission to Haiti" and "Lutherans and the Civil Rights Movement."
Dr. Freeland has received numerous grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Southern Civil Rights Institute at Harvard University (1998), the Council of Independent Colleges (2004), the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to participate in the "Slavery, Scholarship, and Public History" seminar at Columbia University (2004) and the Lutheran Academy of Scholars for research at Harvard University (2005).
He formerly served on served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Ventura County Star and the Board of the Fund for Santa Barbara. Dr. Freeland is currently the President of the Board of Directors of CAUSE and the Center for Education in Public Affairs.
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