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Professor Chris Zepeda-Millán has been awarded the 2017 Early Career Award by the Midwest Political Science Association Latino/a Caucus.Read more about Professor Chris Zepeda-Millán Receives an Early Career Award

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

Tags: www.uhm.hawaii.edu/news articleRead more about Phd Alumni, Craig Santos Perez, to Receive the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship

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...Read more about Please Give to Ethnic Studies: UC Berkeley’s BIG GIVE Fundraising Initiative – November 16 & 17, 2016

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The aftermath of yesterday’s election has left many in special need of the solace and support of community. The Departments of Ethnic Studies, African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies are safe and welcoming places for people of...Read more about Community Support

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 StaffRead more about ES Staff Offices CLOSED on Thursday, October 6

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-josh-kun-20160920-snap-story.htmlRead more about Phd Alumni, Josh Kun, Named MacArthur Fellow

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:...Read more about Professor Catherine Ceniza Choy is faculty coordinator and co-organizer of a 2016-17 Institute of International Studies faculty interdisciplinary program on “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...Read more about The Bancroft Seminar on Latina/o History 2016-2017 Call for Book Manuscripts

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! Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumna Harriett Skye Honored by North Dakota Native American Hall of 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.

Located in...Read more about Honorees Selected for New 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...Read more about “Across Difference”: NSN Volume 3 Just Published

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...Read more about Ethnic Studies Student, Paola Mora Paredes, to Receive Chancellor’s Award for Public 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...Read more about Ethnic Studies Alumnus, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Wins Pulitzer Prize!

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,".Read more about Professor Chris Zepeda-Millán to be presented with the 2015 Best Paper in Latino Politics Award