Recent Stories

Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies

February 6, 2025

New article by Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate Justin Hosbey in Environment and Planning F. This article fuses ethnography, spatial analysis, interviews, and archival research to explore the ways that people incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) experience the uneven impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Despite unlivable conditions, inmates at Angola have provided crucial critiques of the...

Cultivating Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices from Principals in the U.S.

February 6, 2025

ISSI Graduate Fellow Aukeem Ballard is co-author of a new article featured in the Research in Educational Administration and Leadership journal. Cultivating Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices from Principals in the U.S. discusses the challenges principals faced as they attempted to balance equity, excellence, and accountability while being mindful of the wellbeing of students, families, teachers, and their schools’ outcomes during the Covid-19 pandemic....

In Memoriam - Michael Burawoy

February 6, 2025

The ISSI community is mourning the tragic death of Professor Emeritus Michael Burawoy, who was killed in a hit and run accident on February 3. Professor Burawoy was a long-standing affiliate of the Institute, a former member of our Faculty Advisory Committee, and a strong champion of our Graduate Fellows Program. For more on his many contributions, please visit the Berkeley Sociology webpage. Plans for his memorial will be posted...