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In an essay in Jacobin, Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate Cihan Tuğal assesses the threat posed by Trump and the far right in the United States. He concludes...Read more about Measuring the Far-Right Threat

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies has curated a collection of resources on the right wing in the US, including articles and blog posts from the Journal of Right-Wing Studies...Read more about Shedding Light on US Election Results

Laura Díaz, a graduate student affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, was featured on the Environmental Health News Podcast speaking about her...Read more about How Social and Environmental Stress Impact Children’s Health

The Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and the Berkeley Food Institute are pleased to share a new report by ISSI Senior Researcher Robin Marsh and Caitlyn Wilt on the ecosystem of support for new and aspiring farmers in...Read more about Building an Equitable Future with Generational Renewal in California Agriculture

A new book by Yan Long, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, presents a detailed study of how the current epidemic...Read more about Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Infectious Disease Politics in China

Eric Stanley, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle...Read more about A coordinated nationwide attack’: What the forfeitures against SJSU volleyball mean for women’s sports

A new working paper by ISSI Graduate Fellow Everardo Reyes has just been published. This paper examines the relationship between radio, sound, music, humor, and political activism...Read more about "Radio, Sound, Time: The Occupation of Alcatraz Through an Indigenous Sound Studies Framework."

Stacy Torres, Center for Ethnographic Research faculty affiliate, has written an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on...Read more about Vance’s views on older women are an opportunity for Harris

Naniette Coleman, ISSI graduate student affiliate, is featured by the American Association for the Advancement of Science...Read more about Naniette Coleman and the fight against misinformation

New book Native Lands by Shari Huhndorf, faculty affiliate of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, analyzes the role of...Read more about Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims

A recent article by Travis J. Bristol, Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate, discusses how American families,...Read more about When will the US presidential candidates talk about teachers?

Lena Chen, Asian American Research Center graduate student affiliate, has won three awards for her film, "The Last Mayor of Chinatown," which tells the story of the rise, decline, and...Read more about The Last Mayor of Chinatown

Vibeke Schou Tjalve, a Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate, has published "Corporate Cosmos," an important report on the privatization of space, the politics of it and the...Read more about Politics in Outer Space

Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate Cati V. de los Ríos received the 2025 Divergent Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research, from the...Read more about The Divergent Award

Chun, Claire. “‘To live with opacity, to live with uncertainty’: A Conversation with Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.” diaCRITICS. Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. ...Read more about Recent Articles by our Graduate Student Affiliates

Gina Ann Garcia, Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate, was appointed as faculty director of ...Read more about Leading Voice in Educational Equity

Center for Research on Social Change faculty affilate Marion Fourcade is co-author of The Ordinal Society (Harvard University Press, 2024). In a sweeping...Read more about The Ordinal Society

Arlie Hochschild, Center for Right-Wing Studies faculty affiliate, is the author of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, 2024). In this book,...Read more about Stolen Pride

This fall, a new cohort of seven graduate students will participate in ISSI’s Graduate Fellows Program: Jesús Gutiérrez, Makaela Jones, Mitzia Martinez, Adriana P. Ramírez...Read more about Welcome New ISSI Graduate Fellows

ISSI Graduate Fellow Everardo Reyes and his partner Shannalia Reyes co-authored a chapter in ...Read more about Pizza, Art, and Big Questions