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Claire Chun interviews Dr. Thuy Link Nguyen Tu
April 12, 2024
Ethnic Studies undergraduate classrooms are vital, complex, and energizing sites of learning; those lucky enough to teach our students routinely bring commitment, creativity, and curiosity to the work. This year, Lisa Ng and David Maldonado are the recipients of the Department's 2024 Outstanding GSI Award. Lisa, a fifth year doctoral student in Ethnic...
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Claire Chun interviews Dr. Thuy Link Nguyen Tu
April 12, 2024
diaCritics, the online publication of DVAN (the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network) has published a rich and robust conversation between Ethnic Studies doctoral student Claire Chun and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. “To live with opacity, to live with uncertainty”: A Conversation with Thuy Linh...
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Larissa Nez publishes “Reuniting & Returning: Balancing our Universe through Weaving”
April 5, 2024
Second-year PhD student, Larissa Nez, recently authored the essay, “Reuniting & Returning: Balancing our Universe through Weaving,” featured in the exhibition catalogue, Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, edited by Hadley W. Jensen and published by the Museum of New Mexico Press. Larissa’s essay explores the ways that Diné...
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HSESI in the News!
March 28, 2024
Berkeley News has just published a wonderful new article entitled "Soon, California educators must teach ethnic studies. UC Berkeley is helping them prepare." The work of the High School Ethnic Studies Initiative (HSESI) is featured prominently in the piece, alongside important initiatives taking place in the Berkeley School of Education. The author,...
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Christian Paiz’s Book Reviewed in The Nation
March 25, 2024
Christian Paiz's book, The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement, has just been the subject of a wonderful long-form review in The Nation. Check it out here!
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Our Newest Distinguished Teaching Award Winner: Victoria Robinson!
March 20, 2024
Our very own Victoria Robinson has been recognized with Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award—the highest recognition the campus bestows for teaching! Victoria is a dynamo pedagogue, collaborator, and mentor for students. She conveys an infectious love to her students of the promise and possibility of the Ethnic Studies classroom as an...
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New Publication: “The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response”
March 5, 2024
Maria "Mavi" Victória Riberio Ruy has recently co-authored an essay titled "The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response." The essay provides a brief overview of Asian racial positionality in Brazil, wrapped up with an 2020 episode in which the "Oriental" element of the Liberdade...
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Celebrating Decades of Staff Service
March 4, 2024
Our staff in Ethnic Studies and in the AGES cluster are an absolutely critical pillar of the work we do--from student engagement to facilities to graduate advising to the countless (many hundreds!) of financial transactions that enable us to achieve our educational mission. Recently, campus leadership hosted a luncheon...
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New Article: “A Living Peninsula”
March 1, 2024
Dr. Salar Mameni has just published a new article in the Critical Ethnic Studies Journal. Entitled "A Living Peninsula," the essay reflects on Laleh Khalili's Sinews of War on Trade. Mameni proposes that "thinking with the sea as a living entity is significant for challenging the possessive, colonial, and destructive movement of capital across...
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Continued Recognition for Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory
February 29, 2024
The beautiful exhibition catalog for Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, which Laura Perez co-curated with María Esther Fernández, was recognized with an honorable mention for the 2024 ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award competition. The exhibition was also singled out as one of the defining exhibitions of 2023 in the world by Art News in December....