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Through archival research, community workshops, and collaborative creative projects, the Archive of Urban Futures investigates how generations of Black Oakland residents have endured repeated waves of dispossession—driven in part by urban infrastructure projects that demolished homes and...Read more about ISSI Grad Students Contribute to Oakland Museum Exhibit

Faculty affiliates Sarah Song, Travis Bristol, and Cristina Mora are featured on a new podcast series called "The Stakes Explained" as they break down some of...Read more about The Stakes Explained

Lisa García Bedolla, Center for Research for Social Change faculty affiliate, explains community-engaged research in this 101 video, a series that challenges...Read more about Community-engaged research explained in 101 seconds

ISSI Graduate Felllow Jasmine Sanders was awarded the IRLE Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation "Party to Promotion: An Examination of Work-sponsored Social...Read more about Congratulations to Jasmine Sanders

Arlie Hochschild, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, published an opinion essay in the New York Times. She explains that...Read more about My Journey Deep in the Heart of Trump Country

The Asian American Research Center partnered with Chinese for Affirmative Action and many UC Berkeley departments, institutes and centers to hold an event, “F-1 Visa Revocation Updates & Practical Advice for All Immigrants.” The event featured:

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A new issue of Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies is now available, edited by Pablo Gonzalez, ISSI Graduate Fellows Program Co-Director. Featuring the work of over...Read more about Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies

Travis Bristol, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, received the 2025 Chancellor’s...Read more about 2024-2025 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Service: Community Engaged Teaching Award

Elora Shehabuddin, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate and UC Berkeley Global Studies chair, promotes a strong and supportive academic community for her faculty colleagues and students....Read more about Global Studies chair discusses research, leadership and importance of her field

Five years after the peak of COVID-19, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliates Khatharya Um and Julian Chow...Read more about The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian Americans

An essay by Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was just published in TIME Magazine. Hirota discusses how advocates of strict border policing typically...Read more about The Long American Tradition of Categorizing Immigrants as Either Good or Bad

That's the question ISSI faculty affiliate Stephen Small seeks to answer in his book, In the Shadows of the Big House. In this...Read more about How is slavery represented at American tourist sites today?

Colleen Lye, Chair of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, was one of the UC Berkeley faculty speaking out for academic freedom at a...Read more about Freedom to Learn, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Speak

Hidetaka Hirota, Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, was interviewed by Berkeley News to discuss the deep roots of anti-immigrant sentiment in the...Read more about How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

ISSI Graduate Fellow Clara Pérez Medina was awarded the 2025 Clyde Woods Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Association of Geographers for their paper “Framing Displacement: Visual Geographies, Black Geographies, and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland.” The paper...Read more about Award for Paper on Depictions on Homelessness in Oakand

Eight ISSI graduate students were selected to be Diversity & Community Fellows this year: Alexandra Gessesse, Aukeem Ballard, Benjamin Njila Fields, Julio Salas,...Read more about The 2024-25 Diversity and Community Fellows

Education Week just announced the RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, listing the 200 university-based scholars in the United States...Read more about The 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings Unveiled

ISSI Graduate Fellow Aukeem Ballard is co-author of a new article featured in the Research in Educational Administration and Leadership journal. Cultivating Resilience During the...Read more about Cultivating Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Voices from Principals in the U.S.

New article by Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate Justin Hosbey in Environment and Planning F. This article fuses...Read more about Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies

The ISSI community is mourning the tragic death of Professor Emeritus Michael Burawoy, who was killed in a hit and run accident on February 3. Professor Burawoy was a long-standing affiliate of the Institute, a former member of our Faculty Advisory Committee,...Read more about In Memoriam - Michael Burawoy