Associate Professor at the Rutgers Anthropology Department
Ulla D. Berg is a sociocultural and visual anthropologist specializing in Latin America and in Latinx communities in the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from New York University and her MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on historical and contemporary processes and experiences of migration and mobility within Latin America, particularly the Andean region, and between this region and the United States.
Berg is the author of Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. (NYU Press, 2015, translated to Spanish in as Sujetos Móviles, IEP, Lima 2016) and co-editor of El Quinto Suyo: Transnacionalidad y formaciones Diaspóricas en la Migración Peruana (IEP, 2005), Transnational Citizenship Across the Americas (Routledge, 2014), and Migración (CLACSO/UAM-Guajimalpa 2022).
Her work has also appeared in numerous disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals including Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Ethnography, Latino Studies, Identities, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), Journal of Migration and Human Security (JMHS) and Latin American Perspectives, among others. Berg’s current research and forthcoming book examines the entanglements of the U.S. deportation regime with rural and urban communities in Ecuador and Peru. She is currently a co-convener of EASA’s Anthropology of Confinement Network.
Dr. Ulla D. Berg will guide the Human (In)mobilities in South America. Critical approaches and methodological debates workshop together with Carolina Stefoni at Universidad de Tarapacá.
