Graduate Program

The department is committed to further enhance our educational mission as a leading Ethnic Studies unit by developing a Ph.D. program. In particular, the Ph.D. program will be developed with special focus on public policy and community studies, the connection of people of color in the United States with those in the Diaspora (International Affairs), and culture.

The establishment of Ph.D. programs would better serve the needs of an increasingly diverse student body at UC Riverside. Graduate students in our Ph.D. program would meet the Department's Teaching Assistant needs.

The future graduate program in Ethnic Studies will emphasize three substantive areas of concentration that reflect the specializations and expertise of the ETST faculty at the University of California, Riverside. These include:

I. Theories of Race and Power

includes fields of critical race studies, critical race feminisms, race, gender, and sexuality, transnational and global conceptualizations of race, counter hegemonic praxis, and radical theorizations of power, dominance, and violence;

II. Cultural Politics and Production

includes visual, textual, and expressive cultural forms (i.e. film, literature, music, visual art, dance, performance, etc.) that critically rearticulate and re-imagine hegemonic social formations;

III. The State, Law, and Social Transformation

includes the laws, policies, and politics that impede or advance social, economic, political, legal, and educational transformations in the context of local, national, and global state formations.

UCR Ethnic Studies is now accepting applications for admission into a new comprehensive and autonomous Ph.D. program, effective Fall 2009.

Information email: etstgrad@ucr.edu
Application information: www.graduate.ucr.edu
Contact: Andrea Gonzales 951.827.1821