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Ethnic Studies has Always Been Innovative!

February 23, 2024

I am pleased to share a wonderful article(link is external) 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(link is external) 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!

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:

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

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.

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

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(link is external), alongside a stellar and singular group of...Read more about Catherine Ceniza Choy a Finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Peter Nelson Wins California Climate Action Seed Grant!

August 24, 2023

We’re pleased to report that Peter Nelson (ESPM and Ethnic Studies) is the recipient of nearly $1 million from a California Climate Action Seed Grant. The grant supports Peter’s work with tribal entities to expand the use of prescribed and cultural fire and increase tribal leadership in fire...Read more about Peter Nelson Wins California Climate Action Seed Grant!

Nicholas Vargas named to U.S. Census National Advisory Council (NAC)

August 15, 2023

Our incoming faculty member, Nicholas Vargas, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Census. Vargas will join 10-12 academic researchers of race/ethnicity data to support the Census in improving its data collection practices. A brief

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New Book Release: Salar Mameni’s Terracene

August 15, 2023

Salar Mameni’s Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics has just arrived from Duke University Press!

From the press: “In Terracene Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside the emergence of the global war on terror. Mameni theorizes the...Read more about New Book Release: Salar Mameni’s Terracene

Christian Paiz Receives Tenure!

July 5, 2023

It’s with great pleasure that the Department can announce that Christian Paiz has received tenure and has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor!

We congratulate Christian on achieving this major milestone–a true testament to his impactful research agenda, abiding commitment to...Read more about Christian Paiz Receives Tenure!

Juana María Rodríguez featured in Berkeley News

July 5, 2023

Berkeley News recently sat down for an interview with Juana María Rodríguez to discuss her new book, Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex. Through an examination of archival photographs, illustrated biographies and visual accounts, Rodríguez relates intimate stories of Latinx sex workers...Read more about Juana María Rodríguez featured in Berkeley News

Yomaira Figueroa, PhD ’14, Appointed Next Directora of CENTRO

June 27, 2023

Award-winning writer, scholar, and PhD alum of Berkeley Ethnic Studies, Dr. Yomaira Figueroa ’14, has been appointed the next Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CENTRO)! Yomaira will be joining CUNY as a Full Professor of African American, Puerto Rican &...Read more about Yomaira Figueroa, PhD ’14, Appointed Next Directora of CENTRO

Juana María Rodríguez featured on POLITICO

June 27, 2023

On the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade, POLITICO interviewed Juana María Rodriguez to put the ruling in context. Prof. Rodríguez elaborated how attacks on disability rights, transgender rights, LGBTQ people, and sex work are all related, in the ways...Read more about Juana María Rodríguez featured on POLITICO

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