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Spring 2026

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The History of the Printing Press and of Print Culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

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

This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

The History of the Circulation of Books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

The Archive of Latinx Feelings: 19th Century Letters, Notebooks, Diaries, Books

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

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

How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...

 Arts & Humanities   Social Sciences

K(no)w History K(no)w Self: The Origins of Chicanx Studies at Cal

Christian Paiz - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The University of California, Berkeley played a critical role in the development of Chicanx Studies and in the student, community, and labor activism that fostered the field’s expansion in the mid-to-late twentieth century. This apprenticeship project asks: what goals, contexts, and visions inspired early Chicano/a scholars at...

 Social Sciences

The Strikers of Coachella - A Video and Social Media Project

Christian Paiz - Professor, Ethnic Studies

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

This apprenticeship focuses on farmworker history in the Coachella Valley, a small agricultural desert in Southern California. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Coachella Valley played a critical role in the development, successes, and challenges of the United Farm Worker (UFW) movement, one of the most important agricultural labor movements...

 Social Sciences

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