Approaches to Ethnic and Indigenous Studies Series

The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights hosts informal conversations with faculty from Harvard and beyond to consider the methodological contributions that ethnic and Indigenous studies make across the academic disciplines. These talks are open to the public.

We understand "ethnic and Indigenous studies" to refer to scholarship that analyzes the production of differences based on race, ethnicity, and nation in their relationships to sexuality, gender, religion, and more.

2021-2022

Anthony Romero (Fall 2021)
Visiting Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Professor of Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University

Vivek Bald (Fall 2021)
Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media, MIT

Ju Yon Kim (Spring 2022)
Professor of English
Faculty Director, Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Working Group, EMR

Sherman JacksonDistinguished Professor, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity

Past Speakers

2020-2021

Durba Mitra
Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute
Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Vijay Iyer

Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts

Department of Music; Department of African and African American Studies

Tiya Miles
Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

headshot1_cropped_photo_credit_tommy_piantone_bw Mimi Khúc
Scholar/Artist/Activist in Residence in Disability Studies
Georgetown University.

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Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis
New York University

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Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California

2019-2020: The Interdisciplinarity of Ethnic Studies

Robert Reid-Pharr
Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies

Roberto Gonzales
Professor of Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Eram Alam
Assistant Professor of History of Science

Bruno Carvalho
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Affiliated Professor in African and African American Studies
Affiliated Professor in Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design