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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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PhD Alumni Publish New Books in Native American Studies!
November 14, 2024
When it rains... Two alumni of our PhD program have recently published their first scholarly monographs! Caitlin Keliiaa, an assistant professor of History at UC Santa Cruz, has just published Refusing Settler Domesticity: Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program. The book explores the unexpected story of Native women...
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Applications for the Ethnic Studies 5th Account are now open!
November 13, 2024
Are you a student interested in putting on an event that reaches students connected to the Ethnic Studies and African American Studies communities? The Ethnic Studies 5th Account might be for you! The Ethnic Studies 5th Account is one result of the effort from the Third World Liberation Front- the...
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Dawny’all Heydari Pens Op-Ed in Advance of National Elections
November 4, 2024
Dawny'all Heydari, a first year student in the Ethnic Studies PhD program, has just published a timely and incisive op-ed on the website Common Dreams. "Voting for Kamala Harris With My Eyes Wide Open" Dawny'all writes: "While my emotions have been high surrounding the election and the genocide in...
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In Memoriam: Jane Singh
October 17, 2024
In Memoriam: Jane Singh Jane Singh, who taught courses on South Asian history, literature, and social issues in the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies program of Ethnic Studies between 1991 and 2016, passed away in Yuba City on August 18, 2024. She received her PhD at Berkeley in the...
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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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