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ISSI Graduate Student Meghna Mukherjee is first author on a new article in Review of Policy Research comparing the regulatory processes in genome-editing and...Read more about How Institutional Environments Shape Sociotechnical Imaginaries

Issue Zero presents a roundtable discussion on the state of Right-Wing Studies, featuring twelve scholars from a variety of disciplinary and...Read more about Journal of Right-Wing Studies

A project supported by ISSI, Black Lives at Cal has an Instagram! Be sure to follow them for insights and stories about the legacy of Black folk at UC Berkeley. You can also learn more about their work in...Read more about BLAC Instagram!

In her new working paper, Karen Villegas, ISSI Graduate Fellow, examines how adult education for U.S. naturalization fosters neoliberalism and settler-colonialist ideals. Villegas highlights the...Read more about Trapped in Our Origin Stories

Revista N’oj Issue 4:
H.Y.P.H.Y Heal your People. Heal Yourself

ISSI's Latinx Research Center announces Issue 4 of Revista N’oj: H.Y.P.H.Y Heal your People. Heal Yourself. Issue 4 is a poetry...Read more about Revista N'oj

Mahasin Mujahid, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is the ...Read more about Mahasin Mujahid: New Head of Division of Berkeley Epidemiology

Rachel Morello-Frosch, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is one of 100 newly elected...Read more about Rachel Morello-Frosch Joins the National Academy of Medicine

In his blog "When a Respondent Dies: A Note on Mourning, Research and the Academy," Xavier...Read more about When a Respondent Dies

In her blog for the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Alein Haro, graduate student affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, analyzed why ...Read more about Drivers of Food Insecurity Disparities in California

A new book about the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre by Jovan Scott Lewis, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for...Read more about Violent Utopia

A new book co-authored by Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Resarch...Read more about Departures

Berkeley News published a personal essay by Lisa García Bedolla, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, in which she reflects on the U.S. Latinx experience as a whole and her own journey as the daughter of Cuban political...Read more about Lisa García Bedolla: I Work So Today's Latinx Students Don't Face the Barriers I Did

The Invention of the 'Underclass': A Study in the Politics of Knowledge, published earlier...Read more about The Invention of the 'Underclass'

This Berkeley News story features Carolyn Chen, ISSI graduate fellow alum and now faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center and Center for Research on Social Change. Chen shares her research done for her recent book,...Read more about When Work Becomes Your Religion, Nothing Else Matters

In this article in New Genetics and Society by Jen James and Galen Joseph, faculty affiliates of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, the authors look at a ...Read more about The Promise of Personalized Medicine vs. Reality in Breast Cancer Screening Trial

Working with a team of undergraduate students at Latinx Research Center, Pablo Gonzalez, Co-Director of ISSI's Graduate Fellows Program, has published the second edition of ...Read more about New Issue of Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies

In this new book, co-editor Travis Bristol, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, addresses key issues that serve as an obstacle for teachers of color and indigenous teachers. ...Read more about Handbook of Research on Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers

ISSI graduate students Caleb Dawson and Rashad Timmons are this year's Dissertation Writing Fellows in the ...Read more about Black Studies Collaboratory Dissertation Writing Fellows

Stacy Torres, ISSI faculty affiliate, wrote an op-ed published in The Washington Post reflecting on those who still mask and take other measures to prevent infection. Torres tells her own story about ...Read more about The World Might Be Done With Covid

A new article, co-authored by Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton, faculty affiliates of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, is available now in Urban Education. The article examines...Read more about Teachers of Color & Self-Efficacy in Social and Emotional Learning