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In this new article in Social Problems, ISSI graduate student Melanie Z. Plasencia focuses on the ...Read more about "I Don't Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends"

ISSI is proud to provide office space for Ari Neulight, campus homeless outreach coordinator. In this Berkeley News article, Neulight sheds light on ...Read more about Tough Job, Light Touch: Ari Neulight

In this essay, Ian Haney López, member of ISSI's Faculty Leadership Council, argues that the ...Read more about Can Democracy Survive Racism as a Strategy?

Luis Tenorio, student affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, received the Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship from the Institute of Governmental Studies for his project, ...Read more about Congratulations Luis Tenorio

Brie McLemore, ISSI Graduate Fellow, has a new working paper published by Citrix. McLemore studied the ...Read more about When the Streetlights Come On: How “Smart Cities” are Becoming a Surveillance State

Jason Okonufua, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, is co-author of an article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology examining ...Read more about The Good and Bad of a Reputation

Patricia Baquedano-López, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, and Nate Gong, Asian American Research Center Graduate Fellow, are co-authors of "...Read more about Indigenous Mobilities in Diaspora

Carolina Reid, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, is the author of a new Berkeley blog discussing the ...Read more about Addressing the Structural Foundations of Homelessness in the Bay Area

In December 2021, a group of Mexican American scholars met at the Latinx Research Center to celebrate fifty years of Mexican American Studies. The group included many who were founders of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). The organizing committee includes...Read more about Latinopia Showcase: 50 Years of Struggle

Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party is a new book for young adults co-authored by Waldo Martin, Jr., faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, and by Joshua Bloom, an Institute alum. The novel...Read more about Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies announces the launch of a new Open Access journal in partnership with eScholarship at the University of California. The Journal of Right-Wing Studies aims to shed light on the politics of the moment by investigating the nature and origins of...Read more about CFP: Journal of Right-Wing Studies

In this episode of the Americast podcast from BBC News, Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, sits down with the hosts to discuss the ...Read more about Abortion Rights and Assault Weapons

Former ISSI Graduate Fellows Isabel García Valdivia and Melanie Z. Plasencia are featured in this Graduate Student Profile, highlighting their ...Read more about Addresing Latinx Social Inequality in Later Life

Nicole Hirsch, ISSI Visiting Scholar, is co-author of a new report, "Understanding Power-Building Ecosystems: Case Studies in Civic Engagement and Power-Building through...Read more about Ballots Building Power - Understanding Power-Building Ecosystems

ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues & Native American Student Development at UC Berkeley are pleased to announce the release of a new report, The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key...Read more about The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key Learnings and Recommendations

Physicians for Reproductive Health profiled Adeola Oni-Orisan, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Continously inspired by her marginalized patients, Oni-Orisan is a...Read more about Physician Advocate Adeola Oni-Orisan

Irene Bloemraad, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, published a new article in Ethnic and Racial Studies investigating ...Read more about Claiming Membership: What It Means to be American

In this new article, Brandi T. Summers, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, examines Oakland's unhousing...Read more about Untimely Futures

"Income generation and empowerment pathways for rural women of Jagusi Parish, Uganda: A double-sided sword" is a new article published in ...Read more about Income Generation and Empowerment for Rural Women in Uganda

In this essay in American Anthropologist, Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues and former ISSI Graduate Fellow, explains how...Read more about Where Have All the Anthros Gone?