ADMINISTRATION
PSP Chair
Professor G. Mathias Kondolf
PSP Executive Director
Deolinda M. Adão
Executive Committee
Deolinda Adão Executive Director, Portuguese Studies Program
Stanley Brandes Professor, Department of Anthropology
Irene Bloemraad Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
G. Matt Kondolf Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Pedro Pinto Graduate Student Representative, Environmental Planning
Mari Lyn Salvador Director, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Candace Slater Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Don Warrin Historian,
Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library
Natalia Brizuela Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Catarina Gama Camoes Institute Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Jeremias Zunguzi Doctoral Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Sebastiao Macedo Doctoral Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Board of Advisors
Al Dutra Portuguese Heritage Society of California
Dr. Manuel Bettencourt Former President, Luso-American Education Foundation
Dr. Mario Mesquita Director, Luso-American Development Foundation
Manuela Silveira Vice-Consul General of Portugal in San Francisco
Professor G. Mathias Kondolf Chair, PSP, (ex-officio)
AFFILIATED FACULTY BIOS
Irene Bloemraad Department of Sociology
(MA, McGill; PhD, Harvard) studies the nexus between immigration and
the political system. Her interest in immigration stems from personal
experience: Irene was born in Europe, moved to Canada as a young girl,
and then migrated to the United States as a graduate student. Her most
recent research looks at immigrant political participation in
comparative perspective, with a special focus on how government
policies influence newcomers' practice and understanding of
citizenship. Professor Bloemraad's first book, Becoming a Citizen,
(UC Press, 2006) examines political incorporation among Portuguese and Vietnamese
migrants in Boston and Toronto. Portuguese immigrant communities are
also a focal point for Bloemraad's article "The North American
Naturalization Gap: An Industrial Approach to Citizenship Acquisition
in the United States and Canada" (in International Migration Review, 2002). She is currently researching immigrant communities, including those of Portuguese origin, in the greater Bay area.
Stanley Brandes Department of Anthropology
(AB, University of Chicago; PhD, UC Berkeley) has taught in his
department since 1974 and, during the 1990s, spent seventh years as
Chair of the Department. For over three decades, Brandes has been
immersed in the study of European and Latin American ethnography and
folklore. His work has focused about equally on Iberia and
Ibero-America. Over the course of his career, he has turned to a wide
variety of topics, including peasant society and culture, demographic
anthropology, symbolism, gender, folklore, humor, popular ritual and
religion, the cultural dimensions of food and drink, and most recently,
visual anthropology. He has carried out fieldwork in both rural and
urban settings. Brandes is the author of five books, co-editor of one,
and author of over a hundred articles, book chapters, reviews and brief
commentaries. His most recent volume, an ethnographic study of
Alcoholics Anonymous in Mexico City, has just been published.
J. Keith Gilless College of Natural Resources
(BS Michigan State; PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the Interim
Dean of the College of Natural Resources and professor of Forest
Economics and Management. He joined the faculty in1983, and holds joint
appointments in the departments of Environmental Science, Policy and
Management and of Agricultural and Resource Economics. His career
includes teaching, research and service in Austria, China, El Salvador,
and Honduras. He won the campus distinguished teaching award in 1988
and the ESPM undergraduate teaching award in 2006. He regularly teaches
an introductory environmental economics & policy course and is
director of the UC Berkeley's summer field program in forestry.
Gilless' academic specialties include trade in forest products,
regional economic analysis of resource-dependent communities, wildland
fire protection planning, forestry development and forest management
decision analysis. He is particularly well known for his textbook in
forest resource management and his work on modeling the pulp and paper
industry and wildland fire protection system.
Gilless is currently working with colleagues in CNR and with the Vice
Chancellor for Research to establish an academic exchange program
between Berkeley and Portuguese scientists in ecosystem management,
earth and planetary sciences, and plant and microbial biology.
Richard Herr Department of History
(PhD, University of Chicago) Professor Emeritus of History, has engaged
in research and instruction in the modern history of western Europe,
with emphasis on the Iberian peninsula. For thirty years before his
retirement in 1991 he taught the primary undergraduate course at
Berkeley on the history of Spain and Portugal from ancient times to the
present. From 1987 to 1991 he chaired the Iberian Studies Group of
Berkeley. He organized and contributed to two major conferences
involving Portugal and edited their proceedings, which were published
by the Institute of International Studies, Berkeley: Iberian Identity: Essays on the Nature of Identity in Portugal and Spain (co-edited with John Polt, 1998) and The New Portugal: Democracy and Europe
(1992). In July 2003 at a ceremony in Madrid headed by Prince Philip,
Herr was one of eight historians honored by the Society of Spanish and
Portuguese Historical Studies for their Distinguished Contributions to
North American Scholarship on Modern Iberia. From 1994 and 1998 Herr
chaired PSP at UC Berkeley, and currently chairs the Spanish Studies
Program.
Matt Kondolf Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
(AB Princeton; MS, UC Santa Cruz; PhD, Johns Hopkins University) is a
fluvial geomorphologist and environmental planner whose research
concerns environmental river management, with emphasis on
Mediterranean-climate rivers, notably effects of human development on
the delivery of sediment to rivers, effects of mining and dams on river
systems and assessment of ecological restoration. In addition to
technical articles on these topics and Tools in Geomorphology: a Handbook for Geologists, Hydrologists, Engineers, Biologists and Planners (John Wiley and Sons 2003), he is author of two chapters in Conservacão, valoriazao e gestão ambiental de sistemas fluvias: applicacão a bacia hidrografica do rio Sado
(McGraw-Hill) based on PSP-supported research with colleagues in
Portugal. Dr. Kondolf was awarded a Fullbright Senior Scholar
Fellowship to Portugal (2001) where he taught at the Instituto Superior
da Agronomia, conducted research on dam-induced channel changes in
tributaries to the Sado river in the Alentejo and on urban channels in
Estoril and Sintra, west of Lisbon.
Candace Slater Department of Spanish & Portuguese
(BA, Brown University; PhD, Stanford University) is a Marian B.
Koshland Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and the Director of
UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities. Among her primary
areas of research are Lusophone Amazonian culture, narrative folklore,
poetry (the literature de cordel,
which had its roots in Portugal) and mythology with roots in both
Portugal and other cultures that took root in Brazil. Dr. Slater is the
recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Ordem de
Rio Branco, the highest honor Brazil can bestow a foreigner (1996) and
the Ordem de Merito from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, an award
generally reserved for Brazilians (2002). In 2000, she was selected as
United States Representative on the Humboldt Commemorative Expedition
to the Orinoco and Amazon. Recent books include Entangled Edens: Visions of the Amazon (University of California Press 2001) and Dance of the Dolphin, Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination
(University of Chicago Press 1994), as well as articles on topics
ranging from folklore to landscape interaction. She is also the editor
of In Search of the Rainforest (Duke University Press, 2004).
Don Warrin Historian, Regional
Oral History Office, Bancroft Library
(BA, University of Southern California; MA & PhD, New York University) is
a professor emeritus of Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
at California State University, East Bay. He has specialized for many years
in both the history and literature of Portuguese immigrants in the American
West. His latest book, Land, As Far As the Eye Can See: Portuguese in the
Old West (2001)
(soon to be published in Portuguese translation by Bertrand Editora,
Lisbon) examines the Portuguese presence on the early Far West
frontier. Dr. Warrin is currently working as an historian with the Regional
Oral History Office at UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library, where he oversees an
oral history project on Portuguese communities in California. In spring 2003
Dr. Warrin was the initial "Visiting Distinguished Professor" of the Helio and
Amelia Pedroso/Luso-American Foundation Endowed Chair in Portuguese
Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. With
financial support from PSP, he is working on a book about the important role
played by Portuguese and Cape Verdeans in the American whaling industry.
VISITING SCHOLARS
Paula Mota Santos, Spring 2011
BA Porto University; MA, University of Reading; PhD, University College LondonSantos' Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
Dr. Santos teaches courses in Portuguese film at Porto, and during Spring 2011 she will co-teach (with Professor Kondolf) two classes in his course The River in Film. She will lecture on films dealing with Portuguese rivers, notably the Ribeira of Porto as featured in the film Douro Faina Fluvial (Oliveira 1931), as well as Anikibóbó (Oliveira 1942), and A minha aldeia já não mora aqui (‘My village doesn’t live here any more’; Mourão 2006), about dam effects in the Alentejo. Students will watch the films and Dr Santos will lead a discussion of the films the following week.
Antonio Pinhero, Spring 2011
Professor of Civil Engineering, Technical University of LisbonDr Pinheiro will be in Berkeley for several weeks during Spring 2011 to conduct research in environmental management of rivers, and to participate in the course Mediterranean-Climate Landscapes, with Professor Kondolf.
José Brilha, Spring 2011
Professor of Geology, University of Minho, BragaDr. Brilha will visit Berkeley in mid-April to lecture in the course Mediterranean-Climate Landscapes, and will participate in the course workshop Crossings, which will occur in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, in late May.
GRANTEES
Pinto/Fialon Undergraduate Scholarship, 2010-2011
Pinto/Fialon Graduate Scholarship, 2010-2011
PHILANTHROPISTS
Arthur Ferreira Pinto UC Berkeley Alumni, Chemist
was born in Verdemilho, in the council of Aveiro, Portugal on 24 August
1901. He came to the US in 1920, landing in Providence and boarding a
train to Oakland. He worked on farms near Ryde in the Sacramento delta
for two years, then worked in the Albers Flour Mill and the Southern
Pacitic Sawmill, taking high school courses at night. In 1928, a
botched operation for an abscess behind his ear left the left side of
his face paralyzed and created a noise in his left ear that plagued him
for the rest of his life. Pinto entered the University of California,
studying chemistry and despite his hardships graduated in 1942, at age
40. He started work at the Kaiser shipyard, rising within three months
from a laborer to a electrician's helper to journeyman, laying out
electrical cable on the deck of Liberty ships. In 1943 he left the
shipyard and began his career as a chemist at the El Dorado Oil Works,
first at the Berkeley then the Oakland plant. On his own time, Pinto
developed and published a method to analyze copra and oilseeds, and
invented and patented laboratory equipment.
In 1949 he joined the US Army Chemical Corps as a chemical control inspector, left in 1959 to travel abroad, returned to work as a chemist for the State of California, retired in 1968. Upon retirement, he traveled abroad for six years, then returned to Berkeley, where he lived in a modest apartment in the Shattuck Hotel until his death in 1991 at age 90.
Annette Fialon Berkeley High School French Teacher
spent her retirement years with Mr. Pinto in Berkeley and on frequent
trips abroad until her death in 1985. Both Mr. Pinto and Ms. Fialon
left their estates to the University of California, and their
generosity makes it financially possible for many Portuguese and
Portuguese-American undergraduates and graduate students to attend UC
Berkeley.