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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

The New York Times explores the January 6th pro-Trump mob attack through a historical lens in an interview with ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies Larry Rosenthal...Read more about Making Sense of the Capitol Attack

Tina Sacks, Chair of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, published a new opinion article on CNN. Many Black Americans have expressed reluctance to take the vaccine, and Sacks explains how the appalling, yet lasting, legacy...Read more about When Black People are Wary of Vaccination, It's Important to Listen

The ISSI Center for Ethnographic Research faculty affiliate is a recipient of the...Read more about Congratulations Jovan Scott Lewis!

ISSI's Latinx Research Center has a new podcast, "Scars and Healing/Xicatrices y Xanaciones," dedicated to healing the wounds of Latinx communities by first making them visible. Episode 1, "What's in a Name?" is...Read more about Scars and Healing/Xicatrices y Xanaciones: New Podcast!

In a new article in Theory into Practice, ISSI faculty affiliate Patricia Baquedano-López introduces a framework that centers indigenous educational...Read more about Learning with Immigrant Indigenous Parents in School and Community

In a new Public Health Post article, ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine affiliates Seth Holmes and Miriam Magaña Lopez explore the...Read more about COVID-19 and ICE Raids

ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change faculty affilate Nikki Jones has won the 2020 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the...Read more about Congratulations to Nikki Jones

Two of ISSI's affiliates, Tina Sacks and Larry Rosenthal, are featured in a recent Berkeley News article about the impact of Kamala Harris's biracial and multicultural roots in her journey to the vice presidency. Tina Sacks, Chair of the Center...Read more about Kamala Harris's Rise, Multicultural Roots and Challenges

ISSI faculty affiliate Travis Bristol and ISSI Graduate Student in Residence Sarah Manchanda co-authored this new article in the Peabody Journal of Educationon...Read more about Supporting Black Male Preservice Teachers

Naniette Coleman, ISSI grad student in residence and PhD Candidate in Sociology, wrote this op-ed in The Sacramento Observer. Coleman argues that...Read more about How Prop 24 Helps Communities of Color

The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine mourns the loss of Sam Dubal, MD, PhD, a medical anthropologist and an affiliate of BCSM for many years, first as a student, when he was a co-founder of the group that became the ...Read more about Honoring the Life of Sam Dubal

Luis Tenorio, PhD Candidate in Sociology and an affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, published a new article in the Russell Sage FoundationJournal. Based on ethnographic research, "...Read more about New Article on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status