Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Lok Siu

Lok Siu serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Siu is a cultural anthropologist with research expertise in diaspora, transnational migration, belonging and citizenship, food, racial/ethnic/gender formation, ethnography, and hemispheric Asian American studies. She is an award-winning author and the recipient of the Berkeley Faculty Service Award (2023) and the Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award (2022).

She has served as Chair of the Asian American Research Center and as Program Coordinator of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Professor Siu also served as Chair of the Senate committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate from 2020-22 and previously was a member of that committee. She was a member of the Divisional Council from 2020 to 2022, and served as Chair (2018-19) and Vice Chair (2017-18) of the systemwide UC Senate Committee on Affirmative Action, Diversity, and Equity. Learn more about her background and research interests. She can be reached at lok.siu@berkeley.edu.