Professor of Ethnic Studies, African American Studies, and Law
Comparative Ethnic Studies
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Democracy, Housing, Poverty, Structural Racism
Degree/Education
University of Minnesota, Post-Graduate Human Rights Fellow, 1978-1980 University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), Juris Doctor, 1973 Stanford University, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Philosophy Minor, 1969
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...
Comparative Ethnic Studies Critical legal theory, Latinx media and popular culture, LGBTQ activisms, Racialized gender and sexuality
Degree
Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, UC-Berkeley, CA. August 1998 M.A. English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York, NY. May 1991 B.A. Liberal Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. January 1988
Juana María Rodríguez is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Core faculty in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. A graduate of the Ethnic Studies Ph.D. at Berkeley, her research focuses on racialized sexuality and gender; queer of color theory and activism; affect and aesthetics; technology and media arts; law and critical race theory; and...
Chinese Diaspora, Cultural Citizenship, Cultural Politics of Food, Diaspora / Transnationalism; Asians in the Americas, Ethnography
Degree
PhD, Anthropology, Stanford University, 2000 MA, Anthropology, Stanford University 1995 BA, Anthropology, minor in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Select publications
2013 “Twenty-First Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness.” Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader, edited by Robert Ko, Martin Manalansan, and Anita Mannur. NYU Press.
2012 “From Culture and Truth to Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Practicing Committed Anthropology and Engaged Scholarship.” Aztlán: A...
Chancellor's Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. (Political Science), University of California, Berkeley M.A. (Political Science), University of California, San Diego B.A. (Political Science), University of California, San Diego
Asian American literary and cultural studies, Cultures of US Imperialism, Gender and sexuality, Philippine and Filipino American Studies, Transnational American Studies
My interdisciplinary humanities-based research broadly examines cultures of imperialism, with a focus on the United States and its colonial territories and interventions in Asia and the Pacific. A central thematic in my work is how race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality intersect and operate, sometimes together and sometimes in opposition, in the cultural terrains of empire.
