Instructor Information

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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
Mailbox    located in 3229 Dwinelle

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

Location     3313 Dwinelle
Phone     510 . 643 . 8995
Email     maribc@berkeley.edu

 

Map to Dwinelle Hall

Johnson-Jeffries boutThe 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.


~ Historian Lawrence W. Levine in his book Black Culture and Black Consciousness