Grad Student - AARC

Deborah Qu

Psychology, UC Berkeley

Deborah Qu is a graduate student in the Social and Personality Psychology program at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses broadly on emotions and emotion regulation, explored through multiple lenses. Her research investigates the automatization of cognitive change strategies, the role of psychological distancing in emotion regulation, and how individual traits like Agreeableness interact with situational factors to shape emotional responses. Deborah also studies bicultural experiences among American immigrants, such as the way Chinese Americans regulate their emotions when shifting between...

Kieren Rudge

Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, UC Berkeley

Kieren Rudge is a PhD candidate in the Society and Environment Division of the Environmental Science, Policy, & Management Department at UC Berkeley. Their work is grounded in critical race theory, political ecology, and critical Pacific islands studies. Their dissertation focuses on how racialized social-political structures differently impact Pacific communities facing climate injustice. This project uses a collective case study examining marginalization and coalitional climate activism in the state of California and the U.S. territory of Guåhan. This research examines how the...

Evan James Tadashi Sakuma

Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Miguel Samano

English, UC Berkeley

Miguel Samano is a Ph.D. candidate in English with research interests in Relational Ethnic Studies, Chicanx and Latinx studies, Asian American Studies, Social Science History, and Sociocultural Linguistics. Their dissertation, "Talk's Stories: Sociocultural Linguistics and Latinx and Asian American Narrative Forms," historicizes post-1965 Latinx and Asian American literary narrative's interest in the formal patterning of stranger-to-stranger talk over and against that of sociocultural linguistics, an interdisciplinary formation in the social sciences. They previously co-coordinated the...

Crystal Song

Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Taesoo Song

City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research leverages quantitative and geospatial methods to investigate how housing policies and planning influence residential mobility and neighborhood change for low-income and minority households in American cities. Taesoo's dissertation examines the housing experiences of Asian Americans, challenging the prevailing narrative that they face minimal barriers in the housing market. His work focuses on: 1) ethnic, class, and locational variations in Asian homeownership, 2) the...

Amanda Su

English, UC Berkeley

James Sun

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

James Sun is a Ph.D. student in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley focusing on Asian American environmental history. They are currently researching the history of Asian rice in the U.S., including how rice came to the U.S., the communities and inter-ethnic relations that formed around growing, cooking, and eating rice, and the environmental impact of growing rice in the U.S. James formerly taught on a Fulbright Fellowship in South Korea, worked at an environmental nonprofit focused on industrial decarbonization, and graduated from Yale with a degree in Statistics and a degree in...

Nathan Tilton

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nathan Anthony Tilton, MA, uses he/him pronouns. His disability pronouns are: service dog handler, chair user, neurodivergent, and disabled veteran. He is the Associate Director at UC Berkeley's Disability Lab and a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology. His research interests encompass disability anthropology, veteran health, critical disability studies, post colonial studies, crip time, and military biopolitics. Nate's research examines the ways in which institutions disable people, focusing on disabled veterans on Guam and the afterlives of former U.S. military bases in the Philippines....

Alex Torrez

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Alex K. Torrez (They/Them) is a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley. They are broadly interested in questions at the nexus of Identity Classifications such as race, gender, and sexuality, Medical Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, and Organizations. Currently, these interests have led Alex to explore understandings of care in clinical settings, genomics, and the development of recruitment strategies for scientific study and organ donation.