Dr. Brandi Bushman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She holds a BA in English from UC Santa Barbara and an MA and PhD in English from Princeton University. Prior to joining the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley, Dr. Bushman was a Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Brown University. She is an enrolled member of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians.
Carolyn Chen received her doctorate in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2002. Prior to teaching at Berkeley, she was Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, where she served as Director of the Asian American Studies Program. Professor Chen’s research focuses on two areas: work and religion in contemporary America, and religion, race, and ethnicity, especially among Asian Americans. She is author of ...
Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles, June 1998 M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 B.A., History, cum laude, Pomona College, Claremont, 1991
Catherine Ceniza Choy is an award-winning Asian American historian and professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Asian American Histories of the United States...
At its core, my research program takes cultural studies approaches to theorize and narrate the interface between race, culture, knowledge, and state power. My work explores race as a “master category” (following Omi and Winant) and as a “medium” (following WJT Mitchell) by crafting comparative, relational, intersectional, and transnational analyses situated in localized and embodied contexts. By turning to the domain of culture, I investigate how power differentials become sedimented and contested in narrative, subject and identity formations, memory, and knowledge production.
I am an art historian specializing in contemporary transnational art and visual culture in the Arab/Muslim world with an interdisciplinary research on racial discourse, transnational gender politics, militarism, oil cultures and extractive economies in West Asia.
Degree/Education: UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Ph.D., Art History, University of California, San Diego M.A., Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.F.A., Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Programs:...
Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She holds a BA in Political Science and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA in History from California State University, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was a UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Peter Nelson (Coast Miwok and tribal citizen of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria) received his PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. Professor Nelson works at the intersection of anthropological archaeology, Indigenous environmental studies, and Native American Studies in collaboration with tribal nations and Indigenous peoples in California and abroad on issues of cultural heritage preservation, settler colonialism, climate change, and Indigenous landscape management. Professor Nelson...
I am a U.S. labor historian with a focus on farmworker movements, inter-racial relations, and history methods.
Programs:Comparative Ethnic Studies, Comparative Latino Studies, Historical Methods, Philippine and Filipino American Studies, Social Movement History, United States History
