URAP

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Japanese and English-language literary columns in Japanese American newspapers played crucial roles in pre-World War II immigrant society, offering opportunities for readers and contributors to reflect upon their lives in the United States. This project includes retrieving, categorizing, and studying literary texts through resources such as the Hoji...

Andrew Leong - Professor , English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Tessaku_ Tessaku (鉄柵, or “Iron Fence”) is a Japanese-language literary journal that was published by incarcerees in the Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. It consists of nine issues, totaling 751 pages, running from March 1944 to July 1945, and includes poetry, fiction, and essays composed by...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Berkeley's Folklore Program is working with Arhoolie Foundation on several projects involving their extraordinary archive of recordings, photographs, films, and manuscripts related to vernacular music and the vernacular arts broadly conceived. Arhoolie Foundation nonprofit organization rooted in the life's work of its founder Chris Strachwitz and his acclaimed independent label...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The Berkeley Folklore Program is partnering with Berkeley Art Museum to support for the African American Quilt Documentation Study Group -- a Bay Area nonprofit that maintains a registry of quilt stories that will eventually be catalogued at the Library of Congress. The work for URAP position involves organizing metadata and...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

The Berkeley Anthropology Department has received a donated collection of over three hundred rave flyers documenting the electronic dance music scene in San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s, now being digitally archived through the Folklore library. The donated collection includes handbills...

Bryan Wagner - Professor, English

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The Berkeley Folklore Program is partnering with Berkeley Art Museum to support an extraordinary exhibit, Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California (June 7, 2025 — November 30, 2025). The work for this URAP team involves supporting the museum's marketing and communications department in creating media to promote the...