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A number of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty, student affiliates, and former visiting scholars have contributed to this special issue of Global Public Health, "Structural Competency in Global Perspective.” Editors and authors of the collection include:...Read more about Structural Competency and Global Public Health

The University of California has awarded Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, with a California Climate Action Seed Grant to fund his work towards wildfire control. Nelson’s project, Forging Essential...Read more about California Climate Action Seed Grants

Lok Siu, chair of the Asian American Research Center, has been named Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley. Her new term will begin in January 2024; she will serve as the point...Read more about Welcoming Lok Siu as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

With an award of $3 million from the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary team from UC Berkeley, including ISSI, has started...Read more about Towards Equity in the Criminal Justice System

The second edition of the textbook Solving Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems, by Center for Research on Social Change affiliate Kurt Organista,...Read more about New Textbook: Latino Psychosocial and Health Problems

A leader in antiracism and social transformation, Amani Allen, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is spearheading Berkeley Public Health’s journey towards becoming a more anti-racist institution,...Read more about Holding Public Health Accountable

In the new book Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke University Press), Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate Salar Mameni theorizes the emergence of the Terracene: a period...Read more about On the Brink of the Terracene

Janelle Scott, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, is co-editor of ...Read more about Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective

Professor Aaron Cicourel, a long-time member of the ISSI community, passed away in 2023 at the age of 94. His ...Read more about In Memoriam: Aaron Cicourel

Larry Rosenthal, Chair of the Center for Right-Wing Studies, has coined the term “legal vigilantism” to describe a new form of right-wing activism. For example, after the Supreme Court’s recent decision banning affirmative action, America First Legal sent 200 letters...Read more about Legal Vigilantism

ISSI is part of a team that has received a $3-million grant from the National Science Foundation for Computational Research for Equity in the Legal...Read more about New Training Program: Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System

Asian American Research Center Graduate Student Joshua Acosta is the author of an essay for Nursing Clio, a venue for histories of medicine, race, and gender. "...Read more about Citizenship, Race, and Disease

ISSI Graduate Student Isaac Dalke is the author of a new article in Law & Social Inquiry based on computational and interpretive analysis of 9,842 parole hearing transcripts from California covering 2007-2010. "...Read more about Parole, Inequality, and Rehabilitation

Travis Bristol and Tolani Britton, faculty affiliates of the Center for Research on Social Change, are among the co-authors of an article in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. "...Read more about Race and School Discipline

Kelly Knight, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is co-author of an article in International Journal of Drug Policy. "...Read more about An Effective Response to Drug Overdoses

The California Reparations Report is a comprehensive document that details the harms experienced by African Americans in California due to slavery and its ongoing consequences and proposes a concrete reparations plan. It is...Read more about Reparations for African Americans in California

In the midst of calls for the removal of Confederate monuments across the South, tens of thousands of museums, buildings, and other historical sites currently comprise a tourist infrastructure of the southern heritage industry. Louisiana, one of the most prominent and frequently visited...Read more about New Book by ISSI Director Stephen Small on Slave Cabins and Tourism

A New York Times article on “Chino Latino” restaurants in New York City relies on research by Lok Siu, Asian American Research Center faculty chair, “Many of the restaurants were opened by the descendants of Chinese immigrants who moved to countries like Cuba, Peru...Read more about A New Hope for Manhattan’s Chino Latino Restaurants: TikTok

"‘To rescue for human society the native values of rural life’: race, space, and whiteness in the University of California, Berkeley’s agricultural complex" is a new article by ISSI graduate student Rosalie Zdzienicka Fanshel in the journal Whiteness and Education. Fanshel...Read more about Race, Space, and Whiteness in Hilgard Hall

The U.S. Department of Education officially designated UC Berkeley as an Asian American, Native American Pacific...Read more about UC Berkeley Officially Designated an AANAPISI-Serving Institution