The Affiliated Graduate Student Program supports the research of advanced graduate students at UC Berkeley. We hope that through an affiliation with CLAS (and office space within our building), graduate students can further their research and develop relationships with colleagues across departments and disciplines.
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Michael Bakal works as an educator, researcher, and organizer working in the U.S. and in Guatemala. Currently a PhD Student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, Michael’s research focuses on participatory and youth-engaged approaches to the design and evaluation of learning...Read more about Michael Bakal
Ángela received her B.A. in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) and an M.Sc. in Geography from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). In 2015, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her doctoral studies in the Anthropology Department at the University...Read more about Ángela Castillo-Ardila
C. Darius Gordon (they/them) is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Education’s Critical Studies of Race, Class, & Gender program. Broadly, they study the 20th century intellectual histories of Black liberation movements throughout the Atlantic world. Drawing on Black...Read more about C. Darius Gordon
Clare Ibarra is a PhD Candidate in History at UC Berkeley. Her dissertation research examines scientific exchange between Cuba and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, in order to understand how socialism as a political ideology affected each country’s approach to development,...Read more about Clare Ibarra
Yessica Liliana Porras is a doctoral candidate in the department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the study of colonial wall paintings found in churches and convents in the Northern Andes (Colombia and Ecuador). Yessica just concluded her field...Read more about Yessica Liliana Porras