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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...Read more about Our Newest Distinguished Teaching Award Winner: Victoria Robinson!

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 “...Read more about New Publication: “The Choice of Liberdade: Brazilian Facets of Anti-Asian Racism and the Activism’s Response”

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.

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,”...Read more about New Article: “A Living Peninsula

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,”...Read more about New Article: “A Living Peninsula

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...Read more about Continued Recognition for Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory

Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

February 23, 2024

I am pleased to share a wonderful article in Berkeley News, written by the ever-talented Ivan Natividad. The...Read more about Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

February 23, 2024

I am pleased to share a wonderful article in Berkeley News, written by the ever-talented Ivan Natividad. The...Read more about Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

Prof. Gonzalez’s Children’s Books Project featured in Berkeley News!

January 30, 2024

Ivan Natividad has written a fabulous news story for Berkeley News about the innovative class project designed by our very...Read more about Prof. Gonzalez’s Children’s Books Project featured in Berkeley News!

Berkeley’s Holiday Gift Guide

December 6, 2023
This year Berkeley’s Holiday Gift Guide features new titles by three Ethnic Studies faculty. Juana María Rodriguez’s Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex; Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelor’s: A Memoir; and Christian Paiz’s The Striker’s of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement...Read more about Berkeley’s Holiday Gift Guide

Craig Santos Perez, PhD ’15 Wins 2023 National Book Award!

November 20, 2023
It is with great joy that we can report Craig Santos Perez (PhD ’15 has won the 2023 National Book Award in Poetry for from unincorporated territory [åmot]! The collection includes experimental and visual poems diving into the history and culture of Craig’s homeland, Guåhan. This book is the...Read more about Craig Santos Perez, PhD ’15 Wins 2023 National Book Award!

ES Grad David Pham in American Literary Journal

November 1, 2023

Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Graduate Student David Pham whose essay,
“Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics,” was just published in American Literary Journal. His essay intervenes in critical interpretations of Vietnamese iconography to consider how fire and ash might serve as...Read more about ES Grad David Pham in American Literary Journal

Berkeley News Story w/ Christian Paiz

November 1, 2023
Professor Christian Paiz recently sat down with Berkeley News to discuss the experiences of lesser-known members of the 1960s UFW movement. You can find this wonderful and wide-ranging conversation, grounded in Christian’s brilliant historical research, here:

Ethnic Studies Undergraduates Shining on Campus

October 31, 2023
Our undergraduates are such remarkable students, people, thinkers, change-agents. They breathe life everyday into the meaning and purpose of Ethnic Studies. That’s why it’s a special joy to see two of our undergrads featured in recent campus-wide media!

Undergrad Angelica Garcia featured in Admissions Video

October 23, 2023
Ethnic Studies is featured in a brand new video for Cal Admissions!
Angelica Garcia, a Chicanx Latinx Studies Major, tells prospective students all about what makes Berkeley Ethnic Studies such an inspiring place. Along the way, Angelica shows off the Ethnic Studies Library, the...Read more about Undergrad Angelica Garcia featured in Admissions Video

Latest Issue of Islamophobia Studies Journal Just Released

October 13, 2023

The latest issue of the Islamophobia Studies Journal is just out now. Leading the editorial board is Dr. Hatem Bazian, in his capacity as the head of the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. ...Read more about Latest Issue of Islamophobia Studies Journal Just Released

Vernadette Gonzalez interviewed in Berkeley News

October 10, 2023
Professor Vernadette Gonzalez recently sat down with Ivan Natividad of Berkeley News to talk about her wide-ranging research and teaching interests. They discuss the impact of U.S. colonialism and capitalism on Filipinx people in Hawaii, how Filipinx residents have found commonalities and...Read more about Vernadette Gonzalez interviewed in Berkeley News

“There is More to the Recording”

September 25, 2023
Christian Paiz has recently published an article about Luciano Crespo, someone who played a very significant role in the UFW movement. The article also considers the emotional connections and responsibilities inherent to oral history methods.

Catherine Ceniza Choy a Finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize

September 21, 2023
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy’s Asian American Histories of the United States is a nonfiction finalist for the 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, alongside a stellar and singular group of...Read more about Catherine Ceniza Choy a Finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Christian Paiz Featured on the New Books Network

September 21, 2023
Prof. Christian Paiz sat down with the New Books Network Podcast to discuss his new book, The Strikers of Coachella. Makes for especially good listening around the anniversary of the UFW Movement’s 1965 Delano Grape Strike....Read more about Christian Paiz Featured on the New Books Network

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