Announcements

Ethnic Studies Department Chair, Shari Huhndorf, has received the 2017 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award.

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Warm Greetings, Department of Ethnic Studies Alumni and Friends!

We are excited to be part of University of California, Berkeley’s campus-wide BIG GIVE fundraising initiative.  Funds can now be directed to departments, programs, and causes that donors wish to support.  The BIG GIVE campaign will take place during the upcoming 24-hour period THIS Wednesday, November 16, 9 PM through Thursday, November 17, 9 PM.

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Dear ES Community,

Ethnic Studies Staff will be attending a staff retreat on Thursday, Oct 6 and will not be available for the entire day.
 

Thank you!

-ES Staff

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This program explores the significance of gender and “Pacific World” frameworks to understand the connections between the lands, people, cultures, and environments that are in and border the Pacific Ocean.  

Link: http://iis.berkeley.edu/programs/gender-and-the-trans-pacific-world

Selection process begins September 1, 2016

The Bancroft Library Seminar on Latina/o History is now accepting proposals for its 2016-2017 seminar. The seminar is comprised of a collective of northern California faculty dedicated to the interdisciplinary flourishing of Latina/o historiography—from the traditional subfields of social and political history to literary, intellectual, art, film, and beyond.

Ethnic Studies Ph.D. Alumna Harriett Skye ('07) was recently honored as one of the first inductees into the North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor. The department would like to congratulate Harriett for this very deserving honor! 

BISMARCK—The North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor committee, comprised of tribal representatives from each of the five federally recognized tribes of North Dakota, has selected the first seven recipients to be recognized in the North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor.

NSN (nineteen sixty nine: an ethnic studies journal) is thrilled to announce the publication of "Across Difference," a special issue edited by Kim Tran, Kim McNair, and Maria Faini, as well as a stellar editorial board. This issue is full of powerful visual, poetic, and critical contributions from artists and scholars: Corina Benavides Lopez, Sara Salem and Vanessa Thompson, Kamal Al Mansur, Parisa Ghaderi, Felipe Baeza, Cynthia Hawkins, Jave Yoshimoto, Antoine Williams, Tala Khanmalek, Sebastian Martin Perez, Virgie Tovar, and Vreni Michelini Castillo. 
Please read and share widely!

Ethnic Studies student, Paola Mora Paredes, will receive the Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Award for Service to Undocumented Students at the Chancellor's Awards for Public Service on May 9th 2016.

Congratulations Paola!

The Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Recognition Award for Service to Undocumented Students honors undergraduate or graduate students (undocumented or allies) for contributing exemplary community service to undocumented immigrants. The award also honors the recipient with $500 in recognition of their service.

"As an undergrad I studied English and ethnic studies—English, because I loved literature. The reason why I needed ethic studies was during the 1980s and 1990s you were engaging with the canon. And I couldn’t see myself making a life out of that because of I also felt the imperative to make a difference. Ethnic studies revealed to me the possibility that literature could matter in terms of politics and social justice. So I took a lot from Chicano studies and African-American literature and Asian-American literature.

Professor Chris Zepeda-Millán will be presented with the "2015 Best Paper in Latino Politics Award" at the 2016 Western Political Science Association Annual Conference for his co-authored paper, "The Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents,".