I am an interdisciplinary historian who thinks about the relationship between race and empire. I engage in the fields of diplomatic history, Asian American Studies, and Critical SWANA Studies, and more specifically, Iranian Diaspora Studies.
Publications:
“Post-Revolutionary Iranians in the Philippines: Toward Decentering the United States in Asian/American Studies,” American Quarterly 77: 4 (2025), (forthcoming).
“After the Battle of Beverly Hills: U.S. Government Surveillance of Iranian International Students in the Cold War,” Diplomatic History 48:2 (...
Dr. Brandi Bushman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She holds a BA in English from UC Santa Barbara and an MA and PhD in English from Princeton University. Prior to joining the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley, Dr. Bushman was a Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies at Brown University. She is an enrolled member of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians.
Dr. Ramones is a first-generation scholar from Kalihi, O‘ahu. He holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and an MPhil and PhD in Anthropology from New York University. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, Dr. Ramones was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University.
Publications: Red Dirt: Dialectics of Indigeneity (Book manuscript under contract with Princeton University Press)
Forthcoming “‘Class Assimilation’: Racialization, Class, and Indigeneity in Hawaiʻi.” in Current Anthropology
2024 “‘Insurgent Indigeneity’: A New Threshold of...
Kathleen Whiteley (Wiyot descent) is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She was born and raised in Eureka, California, and is a descendant of the Wiyot Tribe.
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.
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
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:...
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.
