Khatharya Um is Associate Dean of the Social Sciences Division, Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also Faculty Academic Director of Berkeley Study Abroad, affiliated faculty of the UC Berkeley Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for Race and Gender, Faculty Adviser for the Berkeley Human Rights Center, and member of a UC system-wide Faculty Advisory Board on Southeast Asia.
Professor Um has received numerous awards for her community leadership and service, including congressional recognitions from Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity. She is the first Cambodian American woman to receive a Ph.D.
