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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

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 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

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

Prof. Um Receives Major Prize in Asian Studies

May 22, 2023

Our very own Professor Khatharya Um has been awarded a 2023 Fukuoka Prize! The Fukuoka Prize was established by Fukuoka City, Japan, in 1990 as an award presented annually to honor the outstanding work of individuals, groups and organizations in preserving and creating the unique and diverse...Read more about Prof. Um Receives Major Prize in Asian Studies

Digna Rabia Volume 3 Issue 1 Spring 2023 is now Online

May 15, 2023
The latest issue of Digna Rabia, Berkeley’s Chicanx Studies undergraduate journal, is now out!
This edition is the largest yet. Edited by the amazing Dr. Pablo Gonzalez, it includes dozens of oral histories that students conducted in the Fall 2022. It features...Read more about Digna Rabia Volume 3 Issue 1 Spring 2023 is now Online

Fae Myenne Ng Publishes New Memoir

May 3, 2023
Our longtime beloved lecturer, the award-winning creative writer Fae Myenne Ng, has announced the publication of her memoir, entitled Orphan Bachelors: On Being a Confession...Read more about Fae Myenne Ng Publishes New Memoir

Catherine Ceniza Choy Receives 2023 Agnes Dillon Randolph Award

May 2, 2023

In 2023, Catherine Ceniza Choy is the recipient of the Agnes Dillon Randolph Award. This award recognizes her outstanding scholarship...Read more about Catherine Ceniza Choy Receives 2023 Agnes Dillon Randolph Award

Catherine Ceniza Choy Interviewed in “Nurse Unseen” Documentary Screening at CAAMFest, May 12, 2023

May 2, 2023

Catherine Ceniza Choy is a featured interviewee in the 2023 documentary film, Nurse Unseen, which will be screened as part of CAAMFest on May 12, 2023. Nurse Unseen by Emmy...Read more about Catherine Ceniza Choy Interviewed in “Nurse Unseen” Documentary Screening at CAAMFest, May 12, 2023

Lok Siu Receives Campus Service Award

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...Read more about Lok Siu Receives Campus Service Award

Congrats to Christian Paiz on the Publication of The Strikers of Coachella

April 14, 2023
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,...Read more about Congrats to Christian Paiz on the Publication of The Strikers of Coachella

Juana Maria Rodriguez’s New Book: Puta Life

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...Read more about Juana Maria Rodriguez’s New Book: Puta Life

Dr. Nicholas Vargas in Berkeley News

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...Read more about Dr. Nicholas Vargas in Berkeley News

New Publication: Dr. Khatharya Um “Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space”

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...Read more about New Publication: Dr. Khatharya Um “Globalization and Civil Society in East Asian Space”

Dr. Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani Appointed Director of Engagement for the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AA&PI) Thriving Initiatives

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.

Sierra Edd feature in Berkeley News!

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...Read more about Sierra Edd feature in Berkeley News!

Lok Siu Promoted to Full Professor!

December 13, 2022
It is with great joy that Ethnic Studies announces that Lok Siu has been promoted to the rank of Professor! One of the foremost scholars of Asian diaspora studies, Lok has broken new ground in linking hemispheric and transpacific approaches to the study of Asian migration. She is a highly...Read more about Lok Siu Promoted to Full Professor!

“Recovering Memory in Cambodia and Diaspora” Receives Luce Foundation Grant

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...Read more about “Recovering Memory in Cambodia and Diaspora” Receives Luce Foundation Grant

Choy’s Asian American Histories Continues to Soar

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

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