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We’re hiring in Native American and Indigenous Studies–Open Field and Open Rank!
October 2, 2024
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position in Native American Studies. We encourage applications from scholars in any discipline, especially those who employ Indigenous and/or collaborative methodologies and take intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching. Potential...
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Professor Shari Huhndorf Publishes New Book!
October 2, 2024
Professor Shari Huhndorf has recently published her latest book! Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims is just out now from the University of California Press. Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers...
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Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors Continues to Soar!
September 24, 2024
Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors, the brilliant and beautiful memoir of one of the Department's continuing lecturers, continues to soar--racking up recognition and awards wherever it travels. The book has recently received the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and the 2024 American Book Award! Warmest congratulations on this...
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Juana Maria Rodriguez featured in the Daily Cal
September 19, 2024
An author-meets-critics event about Professor Juana Maria Rodriguez's book Puta Life was recently featured in The Daily Californian. "How stigma sticks to flesh': Ethnic studies professor Juana María Rodríguez discusses Latina sexuality in her book"
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Digital Exhibit Features the Chicano Studies Library
September 19, 2024
A remarkable digital humanities project about Berkeley's own Chicano Studies Library has just launched! It's called Bibliopolítica: A Digital History of the Chicano Studies Library, and it features a fabulous digital exhibit, oral histories with key figures in the development of the library (including our own Lily Castillo-Speed!), and a whole...
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Daniel Woo, PhD ’20, soaring at Hunter College
September 4, 2024
We've just learned that Daniel Kiho Woo (PhD 2020) has recently been appointed the inaugural Helen Zia Distinguished Lecturer in Asian American Studies and Deputy Director of the Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College! Congratulations, Daniel, on this major honor, and for taking on this important leadership...
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Keith Feldman featured on NPR
September 4, 2024
A recent episode of NPR's "Code Switch," entitled "What James Baldwin can teach us about Israel, and ourselves," featured an extensive interview with our own Keith Feldman. You can check out the episode here! https://www.npr.org/2024/08/28/1197958398/james-baldwin-israel
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Dr. Wayne Silao Jopanda, ’14, Joins SJSU
August 12, 2024
We are excited to share that Dr. Wayne Silao Jopanda, a 2014 UC Berkeley's Ethnic Studies undergraduate alumnus, has joined San Jose State University as an Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies. Dr. Jopanda earned his PhD in Cultural Studies from UC Davis studying the continuous impact of U.S. Colonial Education in...
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We’re hiring in Chicanx/Latinx Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor!
August 6, 2024
The Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Chicanx/Latinx Studies at the rank of assistant professor. We encourage applications from scholars that take intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching. The area of specialty is open to scholars...
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We’re hiring an historian of Asian American and/or Pacific Islander Politics and Community-Driven Change, at the rank of Assistant Professor
July 26, 2024
The University of California, Berkeley invites applications for four faculty positions as a part of a cluster hiring initiative in “Asian American and Pacific Islander Transpacific Futures.” The cluster will consist of a tenure track (Assistant Professor) position in the Department of Ethnic Studies, a tenure track (Assistant Professor) position...