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May 2, 2023
April 24, 2023
Our very own Dr. Lok Siu is a recipient of the 2023 Berkeley Faculty Service Award! Awarded by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, the Berkeley Faculty Service Award is given annually to honor faculty who, over the course of their careers, have provided outstanding and dedicated service to the University.
April 14, 2023
Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex, the new book by our own Juana María Rodríguez, has just dropped from Duke University Press! Evocative, illuminating, poignant, and personal, Puta Life is described as “an essential study devoted to the vitality of Latina/x sexual laborers who work to affirm life against all odds.” Highlighting the criminalization and stigmatization that surrounds sex work, the book lingers on those traces of felt possibility that might inspire more ethical forms of relation and care.
Earlier this year, the University of North Carolina Press published Christian Paiz’s remarkable new book, The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement. More than a decade in the making, The Strikers of Coachella is described as “a beautifully and sensitively written, much-needed intervention to the historiography of the UFW,” offering us all “a fresh and creative approach to the story of the UFW’s formation.” Congratulations, Christian, on this urgent and illuminating work!
April 12, 2023
This week’s Berkeley News features a wonderful article about a research initiative on Latinx studies, featuring incoming colleague Dr. Nicholas Vargas and his collaboration with the Latinx Research Center. Included in the article is a discussion of an exciting new $1 million federal grant on which Dr. Vargas is a Co-PI that seeks to build a pipeline for Latinx social science research. As Dr.
April 6, 2023
The Ethnic Studies Department wants to congratulate Dr. Khatharya Um on the release of her new book. This book critically examines the impact of globalization, changing power dynamics, migration, and evolving rights regimes on regional order, discourse of national governance, state and society relations, and the development of civil society in East Asia.
March 21, 2023
Our department’s very own Dr. Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani has been appointed Director of Engagement for the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) Thriving Initiatives here at Berkeley.
March 4, 2023
Sierra Edd, a Phd student in Ethnic Studies, was recently profiled on in the campus’ “I’m a Berkeleyan” feature. Sierra talks about Indigenous Futurisms, her remarkable collaborations in the Indigenous Sound Studies working group, and more. Check it out!
‘Regardless of where I am in the world, Diné Asdzáán Nishtí (I am a Diné woman)’
Congratulations, Sierra!
December 10, 2022
Congratulations to Khatharya Um and her collaborator, Penny Edwards, for receiving a $60k grant from the Luce Foundation for their project “Recovering Memory in Cambodia and Diaspora: Hidden Histories, Archiving Cinema,” a collaboration between the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center in Cambodia, CSEAS, Berkeley Art Museum, BAMPFA and UCSC. The grant will fund the creation and curation of an oral history archive and promote awareness of Cambodia’s film history.
December 5, 2022
Catherine Ceniza Choy’s Asian American Histories of the United States (Beacon, 2022) continues to garner widespread national attention. The book is featured as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. It also made the Longlist for the 2022 Non-Obvious Book Awards.
November 3, 2022
It gives me great pleasure to announce that Carolyn Chen has been promoted to the rank of Professor–a major accomplishment in the trajectory of any academic career! Carolyn is a sociologist of religion whose research has been recognized for its great originality, interdisciplinarity, scope, and empirical rigor. Carolyn is a teacher of great impact, a dedicated departmental citizen, a campus leader in the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion.
It brings us all great joy to see you soar at Berkeley, Carolyn! Congratulations!
October 13, 2022
Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman (PhD ’92) has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow–colloquially called a “genius grant”! It is among the highest honors scholars for scholars in our fields. Dr. Foreman is a professor of American Literature, African American Studies, and History at Pennsylvania State University, and the director of the Center for Black Digital Research. How terrific that a PhD in Ethnic Studies here at Berkeley was part of her journey!
October 4, 2022
I’m very pleased to announce the publication of Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies (UC Press, 2022), a book co-authored by our very own Professor Khatharya Um.
September 21, 2022
Our wonderful lecturer and filmmaker Ray Telles is featured in Berkeley News. Titled “Learning about Latinx culture, experiences through film,” Prof. Telles discusses why he thinks it’s important to learn about Latin America through film and how he hopes his students come away inspired to further explore Latin American art and culture. Congratulations, Ray!
https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/09/16/qa-with-raymond-telles-latinx-film/
September 14, 2022
This Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle carried a wonderful interview of our own Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy by the novelist Leland Cheuk, about Cathy’s new book, Asian American Histories of the United States. Congratulations, Cathy!
August 31, 2022
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the rank of assistant, associate, or full professor. We encourage applications from scholars in any humanistic discipline, especially those who employ literary, media, digital media, and/or cultural studies methodologies and take intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching.
July 14, 2022
Great news out of Sacramento! The 2022-23 California State Budget includes several items sure to have a positive impact on the work we do in Ethnic Studies. Closest to home, the Budget includes $15 million for Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies (AAADS) to increase faculty and enhance campus community engagement.
June 13, 2022
It is with sadness that the Department of Ethnic Studies announces the untimely passing of Ethnic Studies Ph.D. student Ashley C. Phillips (1994 cohort) on May 26th. His classmate and Ethnic Studies Lecturer Michael Chang shares these memories.
May 31, 2022
Hector M. Callejas
- Accepted a three-year IDEAL Provostial Fellowship at Stanford University
- Presented at the annual meetings for the American Anthropological Association and the Latin American Studies Association
- Received an Outstanding GSI Award
Claire Chun:
May 24, 2022
Read this opinion piece in The New York Times by Ethnic Studies Professor Carolyn Chen about when work becomes religion where she discusses her new book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
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