Joseph Gavino Núñez III
Joseph is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. He graduated from the University of California,Berkeley, double majoring in Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology. As an undergraduate student, Joseph designed and conducted research to investigate low veteran matriculation rates in post-secondary education institutions as part of his senior capstone. As a scholar of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, he investigated the efficacy of post-9/11 servicemember-to-civilian transition programs—created by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)—under the tutelage of Dr. Eileen Gambril, Professor at the Graduate School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. Joseph has also collected various forms of folklore for the UC Berkeley Folklore Archive.
Before returning to school, Joseph worked at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS); he is a U.S. Marine, enlisting shortly after the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks on the United States.
Research Interests: Theories of sovereignty and the State; the U.S.-Mexico border; cross-border Indigenous communities; juridical subjectivities in borderlands; peace and conflict studies.
Primary Adviser
Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology; On Leave
Research and Teaching Interests: The anthropology of crime and policing; the anthropology of the colonial and postcolonial state; contemporary African political and legal systems; the historical anthropology of colonialism; the anthropology of modernity; anthropological theory; Southern Africa.
Adviser
Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America; Joint appointment with Harvard Divinity School
Research and Teaching Interests: Urban ecology and ceremonial centers, ritual violence and state organization: Mesoamerica.
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Advisor
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History
Research and Teaching Interests: The social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of Indigenous peoples in a global context.
Adviser
University of California, Irvine
Professor & Graduate Program Director
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research and Teaching Interests: legal discourse analysis and semiotics; anthropology of law; contemporary native american law, politics, art and ethnographic museology