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Remembering Manuel R. Delgado

April 22, 2024

Remembering Manuel R. Delgado

(December 28, 1940 – October 28, 2024)

The Delgado family is sad to announce the passing of Manuel R. Delgado on October 28,...Read more about Remembering Manuel R. Delgado

Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies (1939-2024)

April 22, 2024

In Memoriam

Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies, passed away on March 29, 2024, in Ventura, California. He was one of the founders of the field of Chicano Studies whose influential writings shaped the discipline. He was our respected and beloved...Read more about Mario Barrera, Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies (1939-2024)

Lisa Ng and David Maldonado Recognized as Outstanding GSIs

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.

Claire Chun interviews Dr. Thuy Linh 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

...Read more about Claire Chun interviews Dr. Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

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...Read more about Larissa Nez publishes “Reuniting & Returning: Balancing our Universe through Weaving”

HSESI in the News!

March 28, 2024
Berkeley News has just published a wonderful new article entitled “Soon, California educators must teach ethnic...Read more about HSESI in the News!

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 ...Read more about Christian Paiz’s Book Reviewed in The Nation

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

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