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ISSI faculty members Christian Paiz, Cristina Mora, and Laura Pérez discuss efforts to review the naming of the Cesar Chavez...Read more about UC Berkeley faculty weigh Chavez allegations and support student center renaming

Daryl Mangosing, an alum of the Institute and a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, published an article with Evan van Dommelen-Gonzalez and ISSI faculty...Read more about Understanding moral agency, empathy, and stigma in the context of sexualised drug use

Lena Chen and NAMI [Evan Sakuma], Asian American Research Center graduate students, curated Studio Visits, a series of virtual artist-scholar dialogues. The inaugural conversation has been documented in...Read more about Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood

Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani has been appointed to serve as co-chair of the UC Office of the President (UCOP) systemwide Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Initiative Advisory Board. The UC...Read more about New Leadership Role for Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani

A new article by ISSI graduate student Xavier Durham...Read more about Carceral networking and penal liminality: A case study of a security NGO

A new book by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate Khiara Bridges explores the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women...Read more about Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black American

We congratulate the ISSI affiliates who were awarded grants from the Arts Research Center. Two ISSI faculty affiliates, SanSan Kwan and Courtney Desiree Morris, and three ISSI grad students—NAMI (Evan Sakuma), Irene Franco Rubio,...Read more about Congratulations to ISSI Affiliates Awarded Arts Research Center Grants

Kris Gutiérrez, Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate, co-authored a paper that brings three bodies of work that share an intellectual and social history into conversation to engage several key ideas in cultural historical theories of learning. The paper,...Read more about Culture and everyday learning across contexts

ISSI graduate student Aukeem Ballard recently co-authored an article in Education Sciences on teachers' sensemaking of equity and social and emotional learning (SEL) in pedagogy and practice. The article's...Read more about Advancing Equity Through Transformative Socio-Emotional Learning

Travis J. Bristol and Tolani Britton, both faculty affiliates of the Center for Research on Social Change, received a three-year UC-HBCU Initiative grant to bring six HBCU students...Read more about Strengthening the Academic Pipeline for HBCU Students

The first two articles in a year-long series in The Lancet are now published. The series, Cases in Global Social Medicine, is led and sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine (BCSM). The introduction to the series, "...Read more about Global Social Medicine: A Case Study Approach

Marlena Robbins, a Graduate Fellow at the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, was a guest on KQED Forum. She...Read more about What RFK Jr.’s Support for Psychedelic Therapy Means for Its Future

Taesoo Song, Asian American Research Center Graduate Fellow, recently published an article in the Journal of Urban Affairs. The paper examines the evolution and impacts of...Read more about Anti-immigration and the politics of housing affordability

Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate Arlie Hochschild is featured in this PBS News Hour segment. Hochschild has spent more than seven years getting to know the people in Pike County, Kentucky...Read more about In coal country, community works to heal political divisions

Kristina Lovato, a faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, received funding from the Walter S....Read more about Strengthening Child Welfare Practice at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Wellbeing

Andrew Way Leong, a faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, has been awarded a grant from The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation in the amount of $152,435 for his project, which works to conserve and digitize an archive of Japanese-language...Read more about New Grant Funds Japanese Literary Journal Collection Preservation

Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani was recently appointed to serve on the Higher Education Committee Advisory Body of the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs (...Read more about New State Leadership Role for Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani

Thomas Philip, a faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, is a co-principal investigator on a major grant from the National Science Foundation to support...Read more about National Science Foundation awards major grant for the Institute for Student-AI Teaming

Tina Sacks, Chair of the Center for Research on Social Change, explains health disparities, including social determinants of health and poverty, in this...Read more about Health Disparities Explained in 101 Seconds

Peter Nelson, Chair of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, collaborated on Good Fire: Tending Native Land, an exhibit at the Oakland Museum of CA from...Read more about Good Fire: Tending Native Land