Archive: Maria Heredia

July 26, 2024

Call for Applicants: Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies The Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose work demonstrates contributions to Caribbean Studies. Applications are due Monday, September 2, 2024 at 11:59 pm P.T. The Department of African American Studies is an intellectual community committed to producing, refining and advancing knowledge of Black people in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Africa. A key component of our mission is to interrogate the meanings and dimensions of slavery and colonialism, and their continuing political, social and cultural implications. The Caribbean has been central to the founding of our department and doctoral program…

July 23, 2024

This article was published by the New York Times on July 22, 2024. Click here to be redirected. Robert L. Allen, Who Recounted a Naval Mutiny Trial, Dies at 82 He wrote of how 50 Black sailors were court-martialed for refusing to keep loading munitions onto cargo ships in 1944 after explosions had killed hundreds. They were exonerated this month. By Richard Sandomir, published July 22, 2024, updated July 23, 2024, 12:31 p.m. ET Robert L. Allen, who definitively told the story of 50 Black sailors who were convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny for refusing to continue to load…

April 22, 2024

https://taifaleo.nation.co.ke/makala/lugha-fasihi-elimu/mhadhiri-afichua-jinsi-kiswahili-kinavyomvunia-noti-nchini-amerika Mhadhiri Afichua Jinsi Kiswahili Kinavyomvunia Noti Nchini Amerika Published by Taifa Leo Newspaper (Article link here) April 22, 2024 NA PETER CHANGTOEK PROFESA David Kyeu ni mwandishi aliyebobea katika Kiswahili na Kiingereza, lugha ambazo zina umuhimu mkubwa katika fani za elimu na mawasiliano kwa ujumla. Aidha, yeye ni mtafiti, na ni mhadhiri ambaye amewahi kufunza katika vyuo vikuu mbalimbali, hususan ughaibuni. Alizaliwa katika eneo la Thika, ambapo wazazi wake walikuwa wakifanya kazi katika kampuni ya mananasi ya Del Monte. Alisomea Shahada ya Elimu (Kiswahili na Hisabati) katika Chuo Kikuu cha Egerton, 2004, na Shahada ya Uzamili ya Kiswahili, 2007, kutoka chuo…

November 3, 2023

Black Graduation 2024 May 17, 2024 9:00 am  Zellerbach Auditorium  Berkeley, CA Registration TBA

October 16, 2023

Black Lives at Cal  Self-Guided Black History Tour of UC Berkeley Daniella Lake & Gia White

September 5, 2023

Assistant Professor-Afterlives of Slavery–African American Studies–University of California, Berkeley The African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose work demonstrates prior or potential contributions to the study of the Afterlives of Slavery. Expected start date: 07/01/2024. To apply visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03886. This recruitment closes at 11:59 pm (PT) on 9/28/2023. For questions, contact lanihunt@berkeley.edu. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer. UC Berkeley is an AA/EEO employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

January 13, 2022

Save the date! This year Black Grad will be held on Sunday, May 22nd at 2:00pm. More details to follow. 

October 18, 2021

Download PDF here   THE BLACK FILM AMBASSADOR: THE ECSTATIC WORLD OF ALBERT JOHNSON    Josslyn Luckett    In 1958,  when Ernest Callenbach was seeking “co-conspirators” to create a “serious American film magazine,” Pauline Kael directed him to Albert Johnson. Together, the two of them and Colin Young, then a UCLA professor, dreamed up and brought into being the journal before you now.1 Knowing that a Black film critic and professor, Pacific Film Archive (PFA) collaborator, and long-time San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) programmer was part of this journal’s origin story is enough to make me—a recently arrived Black…

October 6, 2021

Small Grants Program – Spring 2022 Due: October 29th, 2021 The Black Studies Collaboratory in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley is currently accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and staff for financial support for research up to $5,000. We will provide small grants for research, teaching, curriculum development, and related projects to faculty, undergraduates students, graduate students, and staff, either as individuals, teams, or as representatives of a UC Berkeley program, department, or unit. We welcome proposals from across campus that center blackness, especially teaching and research endeavors that are collaborative,…

September 30, 2021

Job #JPF03100 African Am Studies / College of Letters & Science – Social Sciences / UC Berkeley POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Non-Senate Lecturer Salary range: Salary is dependent upon qualifications and years of college-level teaching experience. Starting minimum full-time equivalent annual academic salary is $56,945. Percent time: Positions may range from 33% to 67% time (one to two courses). Anticipated start: Applications are typically reviewed for summer session course needs in April, fall course needs in May, and in November for spring course needs. Position duration: Positions typically start at the beginning of the semester (mid-August for Fall Semester; mid-January for Spring Semester), and appointments…