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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 stewardship programs....
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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 description of the NAC is provided by the Census: The NAC...
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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 Terracene as an epoch marked by a convergence...
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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 teaching and mentorship, and his energetic...
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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 from around the world and demonstrates the ways...
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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 & Latino Studies in July....
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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 they restrict the bodily autonomy...
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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 cultures of Asia....
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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 podcasts produced in Pablo's Mexican and Central American Migration...
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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 Baby, Chinatown Daughter, Baa-Bai Sister, Caretaker of Exotics, Literary Balloon Peddler, and Grand Historian of Doomed American Family. Out next week from the renowned Grove Press, the book...
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