Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz was born and raised in Chicago. He is an associate professor of sociology and co-directs the Latinx Social Science Pipeline initiative and the Anticolonial Lab. Michael joined Berkeley's faculty as part of the Latinx and Democracy cluster.
He received his PhD (Sociology) from Brown University, his MA (Sociology) from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and his BA (Political Science and Mexican and Caribbean Studies) from Northeastern Illinois University. His research and teaching explore the politics of race, knowledge, and temporality, primarily in Latinx...
Liliana V Rodriguez researches Latina/o sociology, international migration, immigrant youth, ethnographic research methods, and race and ethnicity studies. Her current work centers on the experiences of adolescent arrivals as they navigate life in the United States during contested political times. Her work has been published in journals, including the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies and Migration Studies. She is a recipient of a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
Michelle Vasquez Ruiz is an assistant professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, she was a UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a BA in Political Science and Chicano Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and an MA in History from California State University, Los Angeles. She received her PhD in American Studies and Ethnicity from the University of Southern California....
Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies and History of Art
Sugata Ray is Associate Professor of South and Southeast Asian art and architecture in the History of Art Department and the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Trained in both history (Presidency College; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) and art history (Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda; University of Minnesota), Sugata Ray’s research is on post-1400s art and architecture in South Asia with a focus on climate change and the environment, postcolonial geophilosophy, and posthumanist thought before colonial...
Shereen Marisol Meraji is a veteran audio producer and journalist who has been telling stories with sound for more than two decades. Shereen helped create NPR’s groundbreaking and critically acclaimed podcast covering race and identity, Code Switch. During her time as co-host and senior producer, Code Switch won numerous awards and Apple Podcasts named Code Switch its first-ever “show of the year.” She was awarded Harvard’s prestigious Nieman fellowship in 2022 before becoming an associate professor of race in journalism and head of audio at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism....
Assistant Adjunct Professor and Program Director, Goldman School of Public Policy
Michelle Reddy is an Assistant Adjunct Professor and Program Director for the Master of Development Practice (MDP) at the University of California, Berkeley. She has also been a lecturer at Stanford University and Sciences Po, and from 2019-2022 she was a postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Politics and International Relations at Sciences Po. Professor Reddy's research is driven by the broad question of "how can we empower communities to participate in humanitarian and development aid?" Her recent work has largely focused on crisis governance: Ebola, COVID-19...
Lok Siu is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Her areas of expertise include Asian diasporas in the Americas, Chinese diaspora, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, and ethnography. Her books, Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama and Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (co-edited with Rhacel Parreñas), received the Social Science Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2007 and 2009. Other books include Gendered Citizenships:...
Lecturer, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Dr. Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani is a lecturer in the Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies Program of the Department of Ethnic Studies. Upon graduating from the Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies Programs at UC Berkeley, Dr. Tsuchitani continued her interests in critical pedagogy and educational equity in the Social and Cultural Studies Program of the School of Education on campus. Her academic service has included work with the UC Office of the President, the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, and the Student Learning Center. She also serves as founder and chair of the...
Professor Khatharya Um is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Program Coordinator of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. In addition to being a Faculty Affiliate of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, she is also affiliated faculty of Global Studies, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Race and Gender, and the Berkeley Human Rights Center, and serves on the UC system-wide Faculty Advisory Board on Southeast Asia. She was a Chancellor Public Scholar and is one of the founding faculty members of the Critical Refugee Studies...
Before entering academia, Kathy Abrams clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. She has taught at the law schools at Boston University, Indiana University-Bloomington, Harvard University and Northwestern University. Most recently, she was Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Ethics and Public Life at Cornell University. While at Cornell, she served as Director of the Women’s Studies Program, and won several awards for teaching and for service to women. She joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 2001.
