Graduate Affiliates

Applications now being accepted for 2022-23

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.  

To apply, please send an email to clas@berkeley.edu. Please include your name, school or program, and what stage of or year in the program you have reached, along with a short description of your project.

To update the information on this page, please write to clas@berkeley.edu.

2021-22 Graduate Affiliates and Dissertation Fellows

Ángela Castillo-Ardila

Ph.D. Candidate; Graduate Affiliate and 2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow
Department of Anthropology
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

Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow
Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Mônica Carvalho Gimenes is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Drawing on decolonial and transnational feminisms, her dissertation studies feminicidal violence and feminist resistance in Brazil and the Southern Cone. Her...Read more about Mônica Carvalho Gimenes

Antonia Mardones Marshall

2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow
Department of Sociology

Antonia Mardones Marshall is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology from the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, and Master’s degrees in Socio-cultural Anthropology from Columbia University and...Read more about Antonia Mardones Marshall

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque

2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow
Department of the History of Art
Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of the History of Art. She holds an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, as well as a B.A. in the History of Art from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her dissertation “Art...Read more about Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque

Bruno Anaya Ortiz

2022 CLAS Summer Dissertation Fellow
Department of Rhetoric

Bruno Anaya Ortiz is a doctoral candidate in the Rhetoric Department at UC Berkley. He holds an M.A. in Political Philosophy from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. Bruno’s dissertation studies how Mexican law’s...Read more about Bruno Anaya Ortiz

Yessica Liliana Porras

Ph.D. Candidate; CLAS Graduate Affiliate
History of Art Department

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 Fjaellen Thompson

CLAS Graduate Affiliate
Department of Anthropology
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

Ph.D. Candidate; CLAS Graduate Affiliate
Graduate School of Education

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