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A special issue of Global Public Health "Structural Competency in Global Perspective" includes several articles by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine...Read more about Structural Competency through Global Perspectives

Funded by the Asian American Research Center, journalism students Wangyuxuan Xu and Zhe Wu have produced a film about Chinese immigrants working on cannabis farms. The documentary follows two cannabis growers as they persevere to achieve the American Dream...Read more about Green Gold Land

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, is quoted at length in this ...Read more about Nonprofits in the MAGA Agenda

Cristina Mora, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, was a guest for the live KQED event, “Night of Ideas...Read more about Night of Ideas

ISSI Graduate Fellows Program Co-Director Pablo Gonzalez is featured in this Berkeley News article discussing innovative...Read more about Shining Light on Hidden Histories

The Asian American Research Center has received a grant of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a new project: Community Archival Resilience and Engagement...Read more about New Grant from NEH for AARC

A new article by Caleb Dawson, ISSI Researcher, has been published in Critical Sociology about the predatory inclusion of Black women by for-profit colleges...Read more about Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women

Eos Trinidad, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has published a new article, “Interviewing K-12 education experts and elites,” in the journal ...Read more about Understanding K-12 Education Experts and Elites

Published in Berkeley News, this article features a project led by Pablo Gonzalez, ISSI Graduate...Read more about Students Against K-12 Book Bans

Tianna Bruno, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has published a new article questioning the exclusive focus of Environmental Justice studies on Black death and activism....Read more about Black Life in the Face of Environmental Racism

A new book by Charles Briggs, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Co-Chair, will be published by Duke University Press in April. The introduction is available to read online (for free) now...Read more about Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine

This Berkeley News article discussing the need for online information integrity features research by ISSI Graduate Student Naniette...Read more about Disinformation is Breaking Democracy

Travis Bristol, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has co-edited the new book Men Educators of Color in U.S. Public Schools and Abroad....Read more about Men Educators of Color

Patricia Baquedano-López, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change and member of ISSI’s Advisory Committee...Read more about New Book on Language and Social Justice

ISSI Graduate Student Ángel Mendiola Ross has published the article “Policing the California Outercity: Drivers of Police Spending in a Changing...Read more about Policing the California Outercity

Karen Villegas, ISSI graduate student and doctoral candidate in the Berkeley School of Education, has been awarded the 2023 Howard Prize by the Institute of Governmental...Read more about David M. Howard Memorial Prize Recipient

Published in the journal Sociological Inquiry, AARC faculty affiliate Eos Trinidad discusses changes in education and organizational theorizing since the 1950s. ...Read more about An Organizational Sociology of Education

In this essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Hannah Zeavin, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, depicts the re-emergence of Freudian...Read more about The Return of Freud

In this KQED Forum, Jennifer James, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, speaks...Read more about Reparations for Forced Sterilization in California

Co-edited by ISSI Advisory Committee member Jovan Lewis, the new book The Black Geographic ...Read more about The Black Geographic