In a dissertation entitled Black Men and the Politics of Conversion, Paul Dottin, a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies, analyzes Foucault’s notion of “technologies of the self” in terms of black men in four settings: interracial rallies organized by members of the Promise Keeper organization for Christian males, black manhood mentorship groups, multicultural mythopoetic retreats, and the Million Man March. The dissertation considers bodily practices as well as discourses of the self in order to analyze the strategies of gender transformation devised by black men attempting to ameliorate what is popularly knows as the “crisis of the endangered black male.” Paul Dottin will hold the Jeffrey Berg Fellowship for 1997-98.