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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

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

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

ISSI Senior Researcher Robin Marsh led a two-year randomized controlled study to assess the impact of the 1,000 Women's Gardens for Health and Nutrition intervention, which supported almost 700 vulnerable women, including adolescent mothers and grandmothers, in Uganda....Read more about ISSI Researcher Leads Study on Women-Led Organic Gardens in Uganda

Long Le-Khac, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, has published a new dataset of 1,900 entries aimed at examining which works are cited as “Asian American” in scholarly discourse....Read more about The Evolving Canon of Asian American Literature

Travis J. Bristol, Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate, says Black teachers face a complex set of challenges that increasingly drive them from the classroom....Read more about At a low point in U.S. race relations, Black teachers are essential — and at risk

In this KQED news story on Newsom's new style of social media posts, Abigail De Kosnik, faculty affiliate of the Asian American Research Center, shares...Read more about Newsom, Trump and How Trolling Got Co-Opted by the Powerful

Lisa García Bedolla, Center for Research for Social Change faculty affiliate, explains community-engaged research in this 101 video, a series that challenges...Read more about Community-engaged research explained in 101 seconds

Eric Stanley, faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, is one of the experts featured in this Berkeley...Read more about UC Berkeley experts react to U.S. Supreme Court ruling on medical care for trans minors

Winnie Wong, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, is featured in this Berkeley News story. As a graduate student at MIT, Wong had read...Read more about Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

Through archival research, community workshops, and collaborative creative projects, the Archive of Urban Futures investigates how generations of Black Oakland residents have endured repeated waves of dispossession—driven in part by urban infrastructure projects that demolished homes and...Read more about ISSI Grad Students Contribute to Oakland Museum Exhibit

Faculty affiliates Sarah Song, Travis Bristol, and Cristina Mora are featured on a new podcast series called "The Stakes Explained" as they break down some of...Read more about The Stakes Explained

ISSI Graduate Felllow Jasmine Sanders was awarded the IRLE Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation "Party to Promotion: An Examination of Work-sponsored Social...Read more about Congratulations to Jasmine Sanders

Arlie Hochschild, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, published an opinion essay in the New York Times. She explains that...Read more about My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country

The Asian American Research Center partnered with Chinese for Affirmative Action and many UC Berkeley departments, institutes and centers to hold an event, “F-1 Visa Revocation Updates & Practical Advice for All Immigrants.” The event featured:

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A new issue of Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies is now available, edited by Pablo Gonzalez, ISSI Graduate Fellows Program Co-Director. Featuring the work of over...Read more about Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies

Travis Bristol, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, received the 2025 Chancellor’s...Read more about 2024-2025 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service: Community Engaged Teaching Award

Elora Shehabuddin, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate and UC Berkeley Global Studies chair, promotes a strong and supportive academic community for her faculty colleagues and students....Read more about Global Studies chair discusses research, leadership and importance of her field