Jesus Barraza, is a socially engaged artist, print maker, a leader in his community and teaches Xicanx Art History & Practice. As a socially engaged artist Barraza is best known for his prints & posters and has worked closely with numerous community organizations to create prints that visualize struggles for immigration rights, housing, education, and international solidarity. Printmaking allows Barraza to produce relevant images that can be put back into the hands of his community and spread throughout the world. He believes that through this work he plays a role in keeping the...
Professor Bazian’s research interests include Arabic Language, Arab Society and Culture, Classical Arabic Literature and Poetry, Qur’anic Commentary, Colonialism and Post-Colonial Studies, Ethnic Studies, Muslim American Studies, Islamic Studies, Diaspora Studies and Comparative Immigration/Migration Studies, Islamic Law, Arab and Arab American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Multi-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Studies, International Relations and Globalization Studies, Palestine Studies, Social and Political Movement, Comparative Liberation Theologies, and Critical Media Studies.
I examine the agency and resiliency of historically marginalized students and their communities to navigate and confront systemic inequities stemming from a complex interplay of political, economic, and social factors. Leveraging my background as an educator, practitioner, and policy advocate, I underscore the pivotal role of policy in structuring educational access, opportunities, and outcomes for Black and Brown students, particularly in relation to income, race, and geography.
Using Community-Based Participatory Research methods, I view knowledge production as...
Dr. Siri Brown recently returned to the African American Studies classroom after serving as the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Student Success for the Peralta Community College District for over 4 years. As a passionate and committed educator for over 20 years. Dr. Brown has been teaching African American and Ethnic Studies at the community college level and as a part-time faculty at UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies. She holds an M.A. in African American Studies and Ph.D. in U.S. History with an...
Federico Castillo’s research centers on environmental economics, particularly on the socio-economic impacts of climate change related extreme events. He teaches Latinx and the Environment, a class centered on analyzing the impacts of environmental drivers on communities of color, and Latinx communities in particular.
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Michael is a 2021-2022 Chancellor’s Public Scholar Faculty Fellow, awarded from the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship program. He is a practicing government civil rights attorney where he enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination. He has taught at law schools as a teaching fellow and visiting assistant professor for “Race and Law,”Education Law,” and “Administrative Law” courses. Michael was previously a state assistant inspector general.
His research areas include examining the relationship between socio-cultural norms and practices and legal institutions...
Harvey Dong is interested in research and writing about the evolution of Asian American and Third World social movement activism on campus and in the communities. He was also involved in the I-Hotel History Committee to write a timeline history of struggle. He teaches Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley and was awarded the 2016 American Cultures Ronald Takaki Teaching Award. He uses his community work experience to bring life to his Asian American history, Chinese American history and Contemporary Issues course. Many of his students have gone on to work in social justice causes.
Comparative Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
John J. Dougherty is a Senior Fellow in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University and a faculty member in History and Environmental Studies at Reed College. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2014.
At UC Berkeley, he was a University of California Dissertation Fellow and an affiliated scholar with the Institute for the Study of Social Issues, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, and the Center for Race & Gender. He was also awarded the campus-wide...
