“‘Their Servitude I Loosened:’ A Reexamination of Persian Period Judean Re-migration in Light of the U.S. Bracero and Border Industrialization Programs”
Rev. Dr. Marvin Lance Wiser, recently defended his dissertation “Belonging to Work and Working to Belong: Dissimilation and Differentiation Among Deportables Beyond the River.” Marvin’s academic interests gather at the intersections of migration, ethnicity, and labor. He has had the honor of being the archivist for the Sanctuary Movement Oral Histories and has worked at migrant labor justice centers. Marvin is currently a minister and director of community resilience & empowerment programs at Eden United Church of Christ where he is active in coalition building and the beginnings of ¡Poder!, the Eden Power Collective. He is married to the love of his life, Yuliana, a native of Mexico City and a Marriage & Family and Narrative Therapist, who is also the director of a Newcomer Navigation Center in Alameda County, serving primarily asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors. They have two wonderful daughters, and a cute pup named Pancho. Most recently, thanks to a generous Lilly Endowment grant, they were able to reconnect with family and travel throughout Mexico where Marvin learned more about the specialty coffee industry and its impact on labor and migration.
This lecture series, presented by the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology and co-sponsored by the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley begins September 26, 2024 through May 15, 2025. Watch live on the ARF YouTube Channel or view later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.