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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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
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
Emily is a third-year PhD student in Sociocultural Anthropology. Her work focuses on everyday engagements with memory-making practices in contemporary Peru, particularly in Quechua-speaking communities. She looks at how forms of ordinary art inform traumatic memory, accrue social and political...Read more about Emily Fjaellen Thompson
Enrique Eduardo Valencia López is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate School of Education. His research interests relate to three broad areas: the stratification of education by gender, immigration status and ethnicity; the measurement of teacher working conditions and well-being; and...Read more about Enrique Eduardo Valencia López