Felicia Angeja Viator, GSI
I'm currently a doctoral candidate in history at UC Berkeley. My primary field of study is America since 1607, with a focus on African Americans from the Atlantic slave trade to the present. My dissertation, "Gangster Boogie: Los Angeles in the Reagan Era and the Rise of West Coast Rap," explores the early development of hip-hop in a city labeled in 1984, "the murder capital of the U.S."
I have been teaching since 2004, for large survey courses as well as for upper-division specialty seminars, like this one. Whether I am lecturing, facilitating classroom discussion, or leading workshops on research and writing, my aim is to use marginal and mainstream narratives together to generate honest enthusiasm for historical study.
Email f_viator@berkeley.edu
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Office Location 2106 Dwinelle
Office Hours Monday 2:30 - 3:30pm & Wednesday 9:30 - 10:30am, or by appointment
Department Contact Information
Main Office
Location 3229 Dwinelle
Phone 510 . 642 . 1941
Email history@berkeley.edu
Undergraduate Advising for Majors
Leah Flanagan
Location 3327 Dwinelle
Phone 510 . 642 . 0356
Email leahf@berkeley.edu
Class Scheduling Assistance for Majors
Marianne Bartholomew-Couts
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Phone 510 . 643 . 8995
Email maribc@berkeley.edu
“The familiar urge to see in heroes only virtue and in villains only malice has an analogue in the desire to see in the oppressed only unrelieved suffering and impotence.”