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Events
Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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University of California, Berkeley
Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
Degrees Awarded: PhD
Enrollment Deadline: December 15 (same for financial aid)
Financial Aid: Fellowships, Teaching Assistantships, Grants
Enrollment: 75
Program Specializations: Interdisciplinary Program - Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies, Chicano Studies, and Asian American Studies
The Ethnic Studies Graduate Group doctoral program focuses on the historical and sociocultural study of the core groups racialized in United States history. Transdisciplinary in approach, it encourages students to adopt a broad range of theories and methods to analyze the construction of these racialized ethnoculturall groups in relation to each other, in the EuroAmerican context, and in a transnational context.
Ethnic Studies Faculty
ALARCON, Norma (PhD, Univ. of Indiana) Associate Professor of Chicano Studies
ARTEAGA, Alfred (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) Assistant Professor of English
BARRERA, Mario (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) American ethnic film, Ethnicity and film; screenwriting
GLENN, Evelyn Nakano (Ph.D., Harvard Univ) Professor of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies; empirical and theoretical work on gender, race, and labor
GROSFOGUEL, Ramon (Ph.D., Temple University) Sociology; Ethnic/Racial Studies, Latino Studies, International Migration, Caribbean, Latin American and Southeast Asian Societies, International Comparative Development, World-Systems, Urban Sociology, Global Cities, Caribbean Migrants in the United States and Western Europe.
HILDEN, Patricia (Ph.D., Univ. of Cambridge) Native Americans in Los Angeles in the 20th century; European fascination with Native America in the period since the French Revolution
KIM, Elaine H. (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) Asian American Studies; Asian American visual art; issues of gender and power in Korean American culture and community publications
MALDONADO-TORRES, Nelson (Ph.D., Brown University) Religious Studies; Philosophy and Religious Thought in the Americas, Critical Studies in Ethnicity, Race, and Gender, European Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Culture, Ethnics, and Political Theory, Critical Theory of Religion, Transdisciplinary conversations in the humanities and social sciences
MANZ, Beatriz (Ph.D., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) Associate Professor of Geography and Ethnic Studies, Chair, Center for Latin American Studies; Ecological consequences of agricultural export production, Indigenous, migrant and refugee populations, Political ecology, Peasantry, U.S./Mexico border region
MONTEJANO, David (Ph.D., Yale University) Sociology; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology;Social Change; Development; Race and Ethnic Relations; Community Studies; Ethnographic and Historical Methods
MUNOZ, Carlos, Jr. (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School) Professor Department of Ethnic Studies;
OMI, Michael (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies; Asians in America, on Asian American politics and political movements, and on racial theory and politics
PEREZ, Laura; Assistant Professor in the departments of Ethnic Studies and, Spanish and Portuguese; contemporary U.S. Latina and Latin American women’s writing; Chicana/o literature and visual arts; and contemporary cultural theory
SALDIVAR, Jose; Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies; Cultural Studies, Subaltern American Studies and Chicana/o Studies
SARAGOZA, Alex (Ph.D., Univ. of California, San Diego) Mexican cinema, radio and television. His current interests center on ideology and representation from a transnational perspective.
TAKAKI, Ronald (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies; Asian American History, multicultural history
UM, Khatharya (Ph.D., Univ. of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor in the Asian American Studies; transnational and on cultural transmission in the context of population dislocation
WANG, Ling-ch (M.A., Univ. of California, Berkeley) Asian American history, Asian American civil rights issues; Overseas Chinese; U.S. foreign policies in Asia; bilingual education; and Asian Americans in higher education
WONG, Sau-Ling (Ph.D., Stanford Univ.) Professor, Asian American Studies and Comparative Ethnic Studies; gender and ethnicity and women’s and men’s writing, autobiography, the Chinese diaspora, and Chinese immigrant literature
African American Studies Department
University of California, Berkeley
660 Barrows Hall #2572
Berkeley, CA 94720-2572
Phone: 510/642-7084
Fax: 510/642-0318
Web site: http://violet.berkeley.edu/~africam/
Chair: Stephen A. Small
Degrees Awarded: PhD (African Diaspora)
African American Studies has become an interdisciplinary field that focuses on race as a social construction. Our department has led the field with its emphasis on the African Diaspora and the cultures, patterns of social organization, political economies, life conditions, etc. of various African-based societies and communities in the Caribbean, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and other areas of the world. In addition to the development of African American Studies as a coherent and innovative discipline, departmental efforts are focused on fundamental reformulations of the theories, frameworks and methods employed for understanding race and ethnicity.
The Ph.D. program is the culmination of the department’s renewed focus on the close to one billion people of African descent scattered across several regions of the world. Such a focus is reflected in changes we have made in our undergraduate curriculum. It emerges out of a conviction that a sound understanding of the realities of the life and culture of persons of African descent in the United States cannot but take into account the legacies of colonialism, enslavement, the plantation, and migration. Nor can such understandings ignore the development of ideologies of supremacy rooted in notions of race that emerged within the context of colonialism and slavery. The focus on Africa and the African Diaspora allows the use of comparative frameworks for the understanding of the specific realities of persons of African descent wherever they may find themselves.
African American Studies Faculty
BANKS, William M., III (Ed.D. Univ. of Kentucky) Counseling Psychology, Black Social Institutions
HENRY, Charles (Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago) Black Politics, Public Policy
HINTZEN, Percy (Ph.D. Yale Univ.) Political Sociology, Social Change
LAGUERRE, Michel S. (Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois) Caribbean Anthropology
Associate Professors
CLARK, Vè Vè (Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley) Francophone and Anglophone, Literature of Africa and the Caribbean
SMALL, Stephen (Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley) Sociology
TAYLOR, Ula Taylor (Ph.D. Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) American History
Adjunct Professor
ALLEN, Robert (Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco) Sociology
Affiliated Professors
GUILBAULT, Jocelyne (Ph.D. Univ. of Michigan) Musicology (Ethnomusicology)
MARTIN, Waldo E., Jr. (Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley) (History) Recent US, Black, Cultural, Intellectual
O’NEAL, Mary Lovelace (MFA Columbia University)
STOVALL, Tyler (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison) French History
TRINH, Minh-Ha (Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois) Women’s Studies and Rhetoric (Film Theory & Production; Third World Film; Feminist Theory) Film and Rhetoric
Contact
Ethnic Studies Graduate Group
506 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-2570
Phone: 510/643-0796
Fax: 510/642-6456
Email:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst
Chair/Director: Michael Omi
Admissions
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Admissions Office
309 Sproul Hall
Berkeley, California 94720
Telephone: 510-642-7405
E-mail:
http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/prospective/
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