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...
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 Latinx and Caribbean literatures and cultures. 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....
Programs:Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, 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
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
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.
