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That's the question ISSI faculty affiliate Stephen Small seeks to answer in his book, In the Shadows of the Big House. In this...Read more about How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

Five years after the peak of COVID-19, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliates Khatharya Um and Julian Chow...Read more about The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian Americans

An essay by Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was just published in TIME Magazine. Hirota discusses how advocates of strict border policing typically...Read more about The Long American Tradition of Categorizing Immigrants as Either Good or Bad

Colleen Lye, Chair of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, was one of the UC Berkeley faculty speaking out for academic freedom at a...Read more about Freedom to Learn, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Speak

Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was interviewed by Berkeley News to discuss the deep roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the...Read more about How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

ISSI Graduate Fellow Clara Pérez Medina was awarded the 2025 Clyde Woods Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Association of Geographers for their paper “Framing Displacement: Visual Geographies, Black Geographies, and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland.” The paper...Read more about Award for Paper on Depictions on Homelessness in Oakand

Eight ISSI graduate students were selected to be Diversity & Community Fellows this year: Alexandra Gessesse, Aukeem Ballard, Benjamin Njila Fields, Julio Salas,...Read more about The 2024-25 Diversity and Community Fellows

Education Week just announced the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, listing the 200 university-based scholars in the United States...Read more about The 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings Unveiled

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

New article by Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate Justin Hosbey in Environment and Planning F. This article fuses...Read more about Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies

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,...Read more about In Memoriam - Michael Burawoy

Jelani Nelson, ISSI Advisory Committee member, is featured in a profile by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. A few...Read more about Jelani Nelson considers human thought with computer science tools

ISSI Graduate Fellow Ángel Mendiola Ross is being awarded the Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship from the Institute of Governmental Studies for their project “Suburban Dreams Deferred: Prison Proliferation in the Post-Civil Rights U.S." The Institute awards...Read more about 2025 Percy Synar Award

ISSI Graduate Fellow Adriana P. Ramírez is featured in this profile by UC Berkeley Letters & Sciences. Ramírez, who aspires to...Read more about ISSI Graduate Fellow Profile

Indigenous students from Latin America are a growing but often overlooked population in U.S. public schools. Patricia Baquedano-López and Marisela Zamora have published a research brief in the ISSI...Read more about Supporting the Educational Experiences of Indigenous Students and Families: The Case of Maya Migrants from Yucatán in the San Francisco Bay Area

In an essay in Jacobin, Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate Cihan Tuğal assesses the threat posed by Trump and the far right in the United States. He concludes...Read more about Measuring the Far-Right Threat

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies has curated a collection of resources on the right wing in the US, including articles and blog posts from the Journal of Right-Wing Studies...Read more about Shedding Light on US Election Results

Laura Díaz, a graduate student affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, was featured on the Environmental Health News Podcast speaking about her...Read more about How Social and Environmental Stress Impact Children’s Health

The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Berkeley Food Institute are pleased to share a new report by ISSI Senior Researcher Robin Marsh and Caitlyn Wilt on the ecosystem of support for new and aspiring farmers in...Read more about Building an Equitable Future with Generational Renewal in California Agriculture

A new book by Yan Long, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, presents a detailed study of how the current epidemic...Read more about Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Infectious Disease Politics in China