Gregoria Olson
Latinx & Caribbean Studies, Queer Diaspora Studies, Trans/Queer of Color Critique, Performance Studies, Black and Racial Geographies, Modern Latinx History
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Gregoria (Goya) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley who researches and teaches on Latinx & Caribbean and trans/queer of color aesthetic archives, performance, and counter-publics or geographies, historical and contemporary. Gregoria’s dissertation, “In Suspension: Queer Performativity in Occupied-Panamá,” attends to performances of race, gender, and sexuality, quotidian and staged, in the archive of occupied-Panamá.
M.A., Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, 2020.
M.A., History, University of Chicago, 2017.
B.A., Theater Arts and History, UC Santa Cruz, 2013.
Dissertation Committee
Jovan Scott Lewis, Lok Siu, Juana María Rodríguez, Christian Paiz
Courses Assisted
Ethnic Studies 10AC: History of Race & Ethnicity in the North American West (Fall 2019)
Ethnic Studies 11AC: Introduction to Ethnic Studies (Fall 2020)
Chicano Studies 50: Introduction to Chicano History (Fall 2021)
Ethnic Studies 10AC: History of Race & Ethnicity in the North American West (Spring 2022)
Courses Offered
Ethnic Studies 103A: Latine & Caribbean Erotics, Archives, and Acts (Spring 2024)