ADMINISTRATION
PSP Chair
Professor G. Mathias Kondolf
PSP Coordinator
Deolinda M. Adão
Executive Committee
Deolinda Adão Doctoral Student, Luso-Brazilian StudiesStanley Brandes Professor, Department of Anthropology
Irene Bloemraad Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Gerald Feldman Director, Institute of European Studies (ex officio)
Keith Gilless Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
G. Matt Kondolf Professor, Environmental Planning
Ana Maria Martinho Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Candace Slater Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Don Warrin Historian, Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library
Board of Advisors
Al Dutra Portuguese Heritage Society of CaliforniaDr. Manuel Bettencourt Former President, Luso-American Education Foundation
Dr. Fernando Durão Director, Luso-American Development Foundation
Antonio Alves de Carvalho 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, examines political incorporation among Portuguese and Vietnamese migrants in Boston and Toronto. It will be published in 2006 by the University of California Press. 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.
Ana Maria Martinho Department of Spanish & Portuguese
as an Assistant Professor in her department, her main interests are Portuguses and Luso-African Cultures and Literatures; Atlantic Cultures;
African Diaspora and Emigration. She travels frequently to Africa and has worked with universities across the world.
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 2008
(BA Porto University; MA, University of Reading; PhD, University College London) will further ongoing research on Contemporary Chinese Identity and Self and Its Negotiation in Host Societies: A Case Study in Porto-Portugal to gain knowledge and understanding of the sense of self and person within contemporary Chinese culture.
Santos' Research Proposal (.doc)
Santos' Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)
GRANTEES
Pinto/Fialon Undergraduate Scholarship, 2007-2008
Adrian, TravorArantes, Adremar Alves
Bettercourt, Veronica
Borges, Debbie Rocha
da Silva, Robert Louis
DeFreitas, Brian
De Luz, Emilia
Dutra, Brent
Ennes, Rosalie
Felice, Frances
Gaab, Brian James
Gabb, Erin Mary
Hartzok-Azevedo, Athena M. M.
Keliiaa, Jacqueline
Leal, Bernardo
Lima, Rafaella Nastasia Simas
Machado, Andrew Joseph
Moore, Benjamin Castro
Moore, Melissa
Rocha, Josh
Rodrigues, Michelle
Silveira, Stephen
Seidler, Sara
Sousa, Daniel Gregory
Sousa, Kate Evelyn
Spinola, Jessica Rose
Thompson, Davede Alexander
Woeste, Aaron
Pinto/Fialon Graduate Scholarship, 2007-2008
Angeja Voator, Felicia Dawn SimasBaptista, Idalina
Castela, Tiago Luis Lavandeira
De Oliveira, Diogo Gaspar Teixeira
Esteves-Sorenson, Constança
Gardete, Pedro Miguel*
Guimarães, Norberto Abreu Varejão
Leite, Naomi
Mello, Felicia
Rua, Gisela Maria Sobral Pinheiro
Waterson, Haley
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.