Julian Chehirian

Julian Chehirian has been selected to represent Bulgaria at the Venice Biennial. Julian and his collaborators created The Neighbours, an interactive multimedia installation that brings to light the silenced and faded memories of survivors of political violence during the Communist era in Bulgaria. The project is the result of 20 years of historical and artistic research. Vasil Vladimirov is the project curator in the context of Bulgaria’s official participation in the 60th Venice Biennale.

Dr. Jaime Sánchez, Jr.

Dr. Jaime Sánchez, Jr.*22 will join the faculty in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History. Sánchez will teach modern U.S. history with a focus on the presidency, party politics, voting rights, and social movements. He will join the faculty in 2025 after completing a fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows, where Sánchez is researching and writing his first book project entitled "Counterbalance: A Century of Identity Politics in the United States."