Ethnic Studies at Brown

Join us in Nicholson House on October 29th and 30th for our annual Tam Tran Distinguished Lecture Series with this year’s guest speaker, Kaiama Glover!

Join us in Nicholson House on April 8th and 9th for our annual Tam Tran Distinguished Lecture Series with this year’s guest speaker, Ana Raquel Minian

Congratulations to Matthew Guterl for his new appointment as Brown’s Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion!🎉

Read more details here: https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-02-06/guterl

Congratulations to Elena Shih for winning the Meenakshi Narain Excellence in Research Mentoring Award! This award recognizes Brown faculty "who have shown exceptional commitment in mentoring undergraduate researchers, as well as for their promotion, encouragement, and training of diverse students in undergraduate research." We all know it is well deserved!!!

Congratulations to Professor Kevin Escudero for winning a Salomon Faculty Research Award *and* an Early Career Research Achievement Award from Brown's OVPR!

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Huge congratulations to Professor Matt Guterl on being named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in the area of Intellectual & Cultural History!

https://www.gf.org/announcements/

We are thrilled to announce two new faculty hires specializing in Native American expressive culture. Brandi Bushman and Jessica Fremland will be joining the department this summer, holding Mellon Gateway Postdoctoral Fellowships before becoming tenure-track Assistant Professors in 2026. Jessica Fremland (Wahpetunwan Dakota) is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at UCLA. Brandi Bushman is a PhD candidate in English at Princeton University and an enrolled member of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians, a federally recognized tribe in California.

Save the date for the visit of artist Shizu Saldamando who will be in conversation with TAPS professor Ivan Ramos next week in celebration of the publication of his book, Unbelonging: Inauthentic Sounds in Mexican and Latinx Aesthetics.

November 17th!

The student coordinators of the Asian American Artist in Residence Initiative are thrilled to announce that the Spring 2023 artist in residence will be Yin Q, in conjunction with Red Canary Song and Kink Out!

Yin Q (they/she) is a Q***r, Chinese American writer/artist/producer, Shamanatrix, and s*x worker rights activist and parent. They are a core member of Red Canary Song, a collective of s*x workers, massage workers, and allies from the Asian diaspora, and founder of Kink Out, a production group of Q***r, leather, art and activism events that center BIPOC. Yin’s media work can be seen in Mercy, Mistress (pilot/Vimeo) and Fly in Power (short video/Youtube), which is being produced as a full length documentary that will screen at Brown during the residency. Their writing can be found in BUST magazine, (Feminist Press), and Q***r Magic, edited by Lee Harington & Tai Fenix Kulystin.

We’re working with Yin and their collaborators to plan a wide range of programs for next semester. Some possibilities include a Lunar New Year celebration; seminars on s*x worker politics and organizing; reading groups and screenings; and workshops on zines, kink, and artistic activism. Everyone is invited to learn and build community with us, and Brown students will be able to engage the residency for independent study credit.

To sign up to receive periodic updates about Spring events and programming, please go to https://tinyurl.com/BAARI-interest.

We’re so excited to welcome Yin and their collaborators to campus!

TODAY @ 6 PM @ DARE 340 Lockwood. Come learn how to Organizing Formerly Incarcerated Power through Worker Owned Cooperatives!

SAVE THE DATE: Artist Talk: Mariana Ramos Ortiz

November 28, 2022 | 6pm | 85 Waterman, rm 130

Join Theater Arts and Performance Studies and American Studies Professors Ivan Ramos and Leticia Alvarado as they host artist Mariana Ramos Ortiz. Ramos Ortiz is an interdisciplinary artist working between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Providence, Rhode Island. Their work addresses sand as a material of resistance and protection against the United States' ongoing occupation of Puerto Rico. Their recent work articulates relationships between legibility as a remnant of colonialism, play as a tactic for resistance, and how these strategies construct the experience and perceptions of the colonial subject and landscape.