I am one of the faculty co-organizers of The Color of New Media, a working group sponsored by the Center for Race and Gender and Berkeley Center for New Media that focuses on intersections of critical race theory, gender and women’s studies, and transnational studies with new media studies. With Prof. Abigail De Kosnik, I have co-edited a collection of essays by the working group entitled #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation...
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
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...
Professor Chicanx and Latinx Studies & Chair, Latinx Research Center
Chicanx Latinx Studies
Decolonial aesthetics, Decolonial spiritualities, Latina/o literary + visual + performance arts, Post-sixties US Women of Color Feminist and Queer Thought
Degree
Ph.D., Romance Languages & Literatures, Harvard University; Stanford University, Exchange Scholar; B.A./M.A. Joint Degree, Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Chicago; Cursos Internacionales de Verano, Universidad de Salamanca.
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...
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...
Anthropological archaeology, Indigenous environmental studies, and Native American Studies
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...
Chicanx History, Gender, Oral History, Race and Empires
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.
