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Carolina Reid, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, is the author of a new Berkeley blog discussing the ...Read more about Addressing the Structural Foundations of Homelessness in the Bay Area

Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party is a new book for young adults co-authored by Waldo Martin, Jr., faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, and by Joshua Bloom, an Institute alum. The novel...Read more about Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

In this episode of the Americast podcast from BBC News, Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Ethnographic Research, sits down with the hosts to discuss the ...Read more about Abortion Rights and Assault Weapons

Former ISSI Graduate Fellows Isabel García Valdivia and Melanie Z. Plasencia are featured in this Graduate Student Profile, highlighting their ...Read more about Addresing Latinx Social Inequality in Later Life

The Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies announces the launch of a new Open Access journal in partnership with eScholarship at the University of California. The Journal of Right-Wing Studies aims to shed light on the politics of the moment by investigating the nature and origins of...Read more about CFP: Journal of Right-Wing Studies

Nicole Hirsch, ISSI Visiting Scholar, is co-author of a new report, "Understanding Power-Building Ecosystems: Case Studies in Civic Engagement and Power-Building through...Read more about Ballots Building Power - Understanding Power-Building Ecosystems

ISSI's Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues & Native American Student Development at UC Berkeley are pleased to announce the release of a new report, The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key...Read more about The University of California Land Grab: A Legacy of Profit from Indigenous Land—A Report of Key Learnings and Recommendations

Physicians for Reproductive Health profiled Adeola Oni-Orisan, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Continously inspired by her marginalized patients, Oni-Orisan is a...Read more about Physician Advocate Adeola Oni-Orisan

Irene Bloemraad, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, published a new article in Ethnic and Racial Studies investigating ...Read more about Claiming Membership: What It Means to be American

In this new article, Brandi T. Summers, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, examines Oakland's unhousing...Read more about Untimely Futures

"Income generation and empowerment pathways for rural women of Jagusi Parish, Uganda: A double-sided sword" is a new article published in ...Read more about Income Generation and Empowerment for Rural Women in Uganda

In this essay in American Anthropologist, Peter Nelson, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Native American Issues and former ISSI Graduate Fellow, explains how...Read more about Where Have All the Anthros Gone?

The Asian American and Pacific Islander Standing Committee (AAPISC) of UC Berkeley has issued a new report, “Twenty Years Later: Asian Americans and...Read more about New Report on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at UC Berkeley

Amani Allen, ISSI faculty affliate, co-authored a new article in SSM - Population Healththat discusses findings of a...Read more about Anti-Black Racism Temporarily Declined After George Floyd's Death

John Douglass, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Right-Wing Studies and Center for Research on Social Change, has published several op-eds related to his recent book Neo-Nationalism and Universities: Populists, Autocrats and the Future of Higher...Read more about Neo-Nationalism and Universities

First Time Home, a participatory ethnographic film, is an official selection of the Portland Film Festival. Produced by Seth Holmes, Co-Chair of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, First Time Home premiered at the Portland Film...Read more about Transnational Indigenous Identities

ISSI Director Stephen Small received a grant from the France-Berkeley Fund for the new project “Counter-hegemonic narratives in European metropolis: heritage,...Read more about Counter-hegemonic Narratives in European Tourism

Khatharya Um, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Asian American Research Center, has recently been appointed Associate Dean in the Social Sciences...Read more about New Leadership Role for Khatharya Um

In this Berkeley News interview, Laura E. Pérez, chair of the Latinx Research Chair (which is part of ISSI), explains how...Read more about Saying 'Latinx' is an Invitation to be Inclusive

Four faculty affiliates of ISSI have been honored as Hellman Fellows: Tolani Britton, Mark Fleming,...Read more about ISSI Hellman Fellows 2021