I received my PhD in Anthropology, and most of my research has been conducted on Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, home of the Sicangu Lakota or Rosebud Sioux. In February 2023, I began collaborative research on the Hoopa Valley Tribe in northern California, which has been in a 7 decade struggle to address the loss of fish in the Trinity River whose water has been diverted to irrigate farms in the Central Valley.
PhD, Anthropology, Columbia University, 1987 BA, Anthropology, Hofstra University, 1975
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
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University M.A., Comparative Literature, New York University B.A., English, University of Redlands
Office Hours:
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 mostly study people who during the 1960s raised hell because they wanted to stop a war, or fight racial injustice, or overthrow patriarchy. Inspired by these activists, my research and teaching reflect my desire to harness what I consider the subversive potential of history to prompt new ways of thinking among academics and members of the public alike.
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-...
