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.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University M.A., Comparative Literature, New York University B.A., English, University of Redlands
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Spring 2024: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:00-5:00 and by appointment
Program:Native American Studies, American studies, cultural studies, gender studies, Interdisciplinary Native American studies, literary and visual culture
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:...
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
Professor Chicanx and Latinx Studies & Chair, Latinx Research Center
Ethnic Studies
Laura Elisa Pérez is professor in the Program of Chicanx Latinx Studies and the Department of Ethnic Studies, and since 2018-19, is Chair of the new interdisciplinary and transAmericas Latinx Research Center, at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a core faculty member of the doctoral program in Performance Studies and of the Department of Women’s Studies, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies. Pérez received her Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation focused on the multiple cultural and ideological practices of the literary avant-...
Professor of Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, and Law
Ethnic Studies
john a. powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy. In addition to being a Professor of Law(link is external) and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, powell holds the Robert...
