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Janelle Scott, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, is co-editor of ...Read more about Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective

Professor Aaron Cicourel, a long-time member of the ISSI community, passed away in 2023 at the age of 94. His ...Read more about In Memoriam: Aaron Cicourel

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, has coined the term “legal vigilantism” to describe a new form of right-wing activism. For example, after the Supreme Court’s recent decision banning affirmative action, America First Legal sent 200 letters...Read more about Legal Vigilantism

ISSI is part of a team that has received a $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation for Computational Research for Equity in the Legal...Read more about New Training Program: Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System

Asian American Research Center Graduate Student Joshua Acosta is the author of an essay for Nursing Clio, a venue for histories of medicine, race, and gender. "...Read more about Citizenship, Race, and Disease

ISSI Graduate Student Isaac Dalke is the author of a new article in Law & Social Inquiry based on computational and interpretive analysis of 9,842 parole hearing transcripts from California covering 2007-2010. "...Read more about Parole, Inequality, and Rehabilitation

The California Reparations Report is a comprehensive document that details the harms experienced by African Americans in California due to slavery and its ongoing consequences and proposes a concrete reparations plan. It is...Read more about Reparations for African Americans in California

Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton, faculty affiliates of the Center for Research on Social Change, are among the co-authors of an article in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. "...Read more about Race and School Discipline

Kelly Knight, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is co-author of an article in International Journal of Drug Policy. "...Read more about An Effective Response to Drug Overdoses

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited...Read more about New Book by ISSI Director Stephen Small on Slave Cabins and Tourism

A New York Times article on “Chino Latino” restaurants in New York City relies on research by Lok Siu, Asian American Research Center faculty chair, “Many of the restaurants were opened by the descendants of Chinese immigrants who moved to countries like Cuba, Peru...Read more about A New Hope for Manhattan’s Chino Latino Restaurants: TikTok

"‘To rescue for human society the native values of rural life’: race, space, and whiteness in the University of California, Berkeley’s agricultural complex" is a new article by ISSI graduate student Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel in the journal Whiteness and Education. Fanshel...Read more about Race, Space, and Whiteness in Hilgard Hall

The U.S. Department of Education officially designated UC Berkeley as an Asian American, Native American Pacific...Read more about UC Berkeley Officially Designated an AANAPISI-Serving Institution

We congratulate our graduate student affiliates on these recent fellowships, awards, and grants:

Before Erdogan was declared the victor in the recent elections, the New York Times published this op-ed by Cihan Tuğal...Read more about Elections in Turkey

ISSI Graduate Student Alice Taylor is first author on a new article in Comparative Education Review examining the relationship between Black social movements in...Read more about The Matter of Black Lives across the Americas

Caleb Dawson, ISSI affliated graduate student and former Graduate Fellow, discusses being tokenized in during his K-12 schooling...Read more about Caleb Dawson: Do the Things You Love, in a Community that Loves You

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!