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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

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

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

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

Meghna Mukherjee and Skyler Wang, graduate student affiliates of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, are two of the co-authors of this new article in PLOS ONE. Here, they examine how ...Read more about Medicalizing Risk: How experts and consumers manage uncertainty in genetic health testing

In an episode of "The Takeaway" podcast, Catherine Ceniza Choy discusses her new book, ...Read more about Asian American Histories of the United States

A new working paper by ISSI Graduate Fellow Brenda Mathias, PhD Candidate in Social Welfare is out now. Mathias recognized that investigations into the relationship between young people and local neightborhood institutions typically relied on adult perspectives. Mathias...Read more about Neighborhood Institutions and Well-being: Youth Perspectives

Brandi Summers, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, received the 2022 American Cultures Excellence in Teaching Award. The...Read more about Congratulations Brandi Summers

The Jewish News of Northern California interviewed Tina Sacks, chair of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, about ...Read more about Feeling "Jewish Enough"

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, received a Career Development Award (K01) from the National Institute for Minority Health & Health Disparities (part of NIH). It will support her work with ...Read more about NIH Grant for Ariana Thompson-Lastad

Kris Gutiérrez, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, was awarded the Berkeley Faculty Service Award in recognition for her...Read more about Congratulations Kris Gutiérrez

This fall, a new cohort of seven graduate students will participate in ISSI’s Graduate Fellows Program: Xavier Durham,Irene Farah Rivadeneyra,Daryl Mangosing,Martha Ortega Mendoza...Read more about Welcome New ISSI Graduate Fellows