(Ph.D, New York University, 2007; Assistant Professor, Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology, SAS)  Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, media, ritual and performance, affect, visual anthropology, Peru, Latin America, Latino Studies
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Ulla D. Berg
Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and Anthropology
Lucy Stone Hall, Room A262, Livingston Campus
Phone: 848.445.4230
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Research statement

I am a socio-cultural anthropologist working on communicative practices in the context of transnational migration between Peru and the US. I am interested in mobile livelihoods, the sociality of transnational connections, the performance of affect, and notions of belonging and membership, and the practicalities and ontologies of multi-sited fieldwork. I am currently working on a book manuscript on new media practices and transnational life between Peru and the United States. I am co-editor of El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diaspóricas en la Migración Peruana (IEP, 2005) and my articles have been published in Latin American Perspectives, Latino Studies, Journal for Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Revista Academia Diplomática Peruana, among others. I am currently co-directing with Daniel Goldstein the faculty initiative “Transnational New Jersey” focusing on the experiences and processes of transnational migrations and their impact on life in the state of New Jersey.

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I am also a filmmaker and on the visual front, I am currently working on a documentary project on the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos, which I am directing and producing. This project has just entered the first stages of editing. I have also directed, produced and edited the documentary Waiting for Miracles (2003), which follows a Peruvian Catholic brotherhood in NYC as it prepares for its yearly procession honoring the Lord of Miracles.

Education

2007    Ph.D. in Socio-cultural Anthropology, New York University.
2005    Certificate Program in Culture and Media, New York University.
2001    M.A. in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.
1998    B.A. in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Courses offered

070:603    Personhood
595:497    Senior Seminar in Latino and Caribbean Studies
595:402    Documenting Latino Lives: Video Production Seminar
070:368     Anthropology of Mass Media
595:307     Latino Ethnography
595:304     Research Methods in Latino and Caribbean Studies
595:298     Latinos and Migration
595:101     Introduction to Latino Studies
070:101     Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Links

Ulla Berg's video prodution class featured in Rutgers Today, in "Rutgers Students Training their lenses on Latino Lives."

Transnational New Jersey

Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

The Center for Migration and the Global City at Rutgers Newark where I am an Affiliate Faculty

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Book

• 2005    El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y Formaciones Diasporicas en la Migración Peruana [The Fifth Region: Transnationality and Diasporic Formations in Peruvian Migration]. Eds. Ulla Berg and Karsten Paerregaard. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.

Editor Special Journal Issues

• n.d.    Guest editor with Robyn Rodriguez of special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power on transnational and diasporic citizenship [under review]

• 2010    Guest editor with A. Takenaka and K. Paerregaard of special issue of Latin American Perspectives on Peruvian Global Migrations (Vol. 37 No. 5, September, 2010)
  
  
• 2006    Guest editor with Roberto G. Varea of e-misférica 3.2. (Issue titled Borders: Hybrid Imaginaries / Fractured Geographies): http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/index.php.

Articles

• 2010    El Quinto Suyo: Contemporary Nation-building and the Political Economy of Emigration in Peru. In Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 121-    136
  
  
• 2010    Introduction: Peruvian Migration in a Global Context. Co-authored with A. Takenaka and K. Paerregaard in special issue of Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 37 No. 5.
  
  
• 2008    In Defense of Community? Long-distance Localism and Transnational Political Engagement between the US and the Peruvian Andes. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 34(7):1091-1108.
  
  
• 2006    ‘El Quinto Suyo’ from Above and from Below: State Agency and Transnational Political Practices Among Peruvian Migrants in the US and Europe. Co-authored with Carla Tamagno. In Latino Studies, vol. 4(3): 258–281

Book Chapters

• 2012    Migration Brokers and Document Fixers: The Making of Migrant Subject in Urban Peru. In Nyberg-Sørensen and Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds): The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration (Forthcoming 2012, Routledge).

• 2012    Video-Culturas Itinerantes: Visualidad y Performance en el Espacio Diaspórico Peruano [Itinerant Video-cultures: Visuality and Performance in the Peruvian Diaspora]. In Gisela Cánepa (ed.): Imaginación Visual y Cultura en el Perú. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP.

• 2005    ¿Enmarcando la ‘Peruanidad’? La Poética y la Pragmática del Performance Público entre los Migrantes Peruanos de New Jersey [Enframing Peruvianness: The Poetics and Pragmatics of Public Performance among Peruvian Migrants in New Jersey]. In Berg and Paerregaard (eds.): El Quinto Suyo2005. Introducción (with Karsten Paerregaard). In Berg and Paerregaard (eds.): El Quinto Suyo.

• 2001    Milagros y Castigos: San Sebastián en el Imaginario Popular en la Sierra Central del Perú [Miracles and Punishment: San Sebastian in the Popular Imagination in the Central Highlands of Peru]. In Millones and Villa Rodriguez (eds.): Perú: El Legado de la Historia, pp. 235-67. Sevilla: Fundación El Monte, PromPerú, and Universidad de Sevilla.

FILMS

• Domingo de Ramos. Documentary-in-progress on the Peruvian poet Domingo de Ramos (director)

• Waiting for Miracles (2003). Documentary that follows a Peruvian Catholic brotherhood as it prepares for its yearly procession honoring the Lord of Miracles in NYC. This film explores the power of faith in the lives of immigrants in New York City (Director, Producer, and editor. NYU, Culture and Media).

Online Multimedia Projects

• Sarhua – Land of Mountains and Colors [Sarhua – Tierra de Montañas y Colores], on-line performance archive curated in 2006 with Luis Millones, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/atahualpa/)

• The Death of the Inca Atahualpa [La Muerte del Inca Atahualpa], on-line     performance archive curated in 2004 with Luis Millones, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU (http://hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/sarhua/)