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This fall, a new cohort of seven graduate students will participate in ISSI's Graduate Fellows Program: Diana Casanova, Akilah Favors, Fabián Fernández, Nate Gong, Brenda Mathias, Brie...Read more about ISSI's Newest Graduate Fellows

In this Berkeley News interview, Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research and Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, discusses how ...Read more about The Hidden Agenda in GOP Attacks on Critical Race Theory

Stacy Torres, ISSI faculty affiliate, wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post about the...Read more about Respite Shouldn’t Have Come Only with Their Deaths

This article in Teachers College Record, co-authored by Caleb Dawson, an ISSI Graduate Fellow, analyzes the arrangement of the Black student debt crisis and the...Read more about Racial Capitalism and the Black Student Loan Debt Crisis

Violence against the transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming communities has continued to rise despite a broadening understanding of the experiences of these communities, with the year 2021 on track to being the deadliest in America. Berkeley News ...Read more about Why is Anti-Trans Violence on the Rise in America?

In this article, Travis Bristol, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, discusses how having Black and Latino...Read more about Four Ways to Get More Black and Latino Teachers in K-12 Public Schools

Asian Americans have the largest economic disparity of any group. This piece in Vox.com by Lok Siu, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, explains...Read more about Comic/Graphic Explainer on the Asian American Wealth Gap

Tolani Britton, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, was awarded a National Academy of Education/Spencer postdoctoral fellowship for her project "Postsecondary...Read more about Congratulations Tolani Britton for Fellowship Award

Denise Herd, ISSI faculty affiliate, authored a new article in The Conversation that shares her findings on...Read more about The Trauma of Police Killings

ISSI Advisory Committee member and ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research faculty affiliate Jovan Lewis was one of five people appointed to...Read more about New Statewide Leadership Role for Jovan Lewis

Charles Briggs, Co-Chair of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, published a new book. In Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics...Read more about Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

"Backstage Decisions Front-stage Experts" is a new blog series co-authored by Santiago Molina, ISSI Graduate Fellow and PhD Candidate in Sociology, that examines what informs the...Read more about Backstage Decisions, Front-stage Experts

Meghna Mukherjee, ISSI Graduate Student in Residence, is co-author of "Making Better Babies? Past and Future State Fair Contests Evaluating Geneticized Worth," a chapter in Birthing Techno-Sapiens: Human-Technology Co-Evolution and The Future of Reproduction...Read more about Eugenics at the State Fair

An interview with Lok Siu, a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, in the Berkeley News investigates the...Read more about Anti-Asian Violence is an American Tradition

Lok Siu, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center was interviewed in a number of media outlets analyzing the increase in anti-Asian hate as the pandemic wears on. In the...Read more about The Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in the Pandemic

ISSI faculty affiliate Stacy Torres published a new opinion piece on USA Today. In it, she explains the...Read more about Getting the COVID-19 Vaccine with an Autoimmune Disease

American Journal of Education Forum published an essay by ISSI Graduate Fellow Caleb Dawson as part of their Black History Month series. In the essay, Dawson, a PhD Candidate in Education, discusses...Read more about "What Does It Take?”

In ISSI Graduate Fellow reelaviolette botts-ward's new book, mourning my inner[blackgirl]child, she tells her story of girlhood...Read more about New Book of Poetry

Graduate student Ataya Cesspooch is quoted in this Berkeley News article about the unnaming of Kroeber Hall, which previously honored an anthropologist...Read more about Kroeber Hall "Unnamed"

ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine co-chair Seth Holmes is lead author on this essay in the British Medical Journal. Through the lens of the current COVID-19 crisis, the authors explain the...Read more about Iatrogenesis and Harm in Covid-19