Grad Student - CER

Josephine Ingram

Berkeley School of Education, UC Berkeley

Josephine (Josie) Ingram (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ studies in education, creative writing pedagogy, queer literacy frameworks, digital learning spaces, and artificial intelligence in education. Her current project explores how informal learning spaces can support literacy development and identity formation for transgender and gender-expansive individuals.

Previously, Josie taught English, creative writing, and film in the Los Angeles Unified School...

Eijiroh Isa

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Eijiroh Isa is a Berkeley Fellow in the PhD program in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines the social experience and culture of people living with type 1 diabetes. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Tokyo.

Margot Jeanne Cohen

Geography, UC Berkeley

Margot Jeanne Cohen (she/her) is a member of the Climate Futures Lab, the Disabled Ecologies Lab, and the Latin American SocioNatures Working Group. Her research brings together racial environmental geographies, feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), and critical participatory methods to examine the political ecologies of climate change adaptation in the Andean highlands of Ecuador and in Western Massachusetts. Her dissertation project engages Participatory Action Research (PAR) as both a subject and methodology to address the coalitional politics of community...

David Joseph-Goteiner

Sociology, UC Berkeley

David Joseph-Goteiner is a digital ethnographer broadly studying the morals and politics that animate emerging technologies, and the consequences of digitalization for individuals and social institutions. David’s dissertation examines the meanings and motivations behind platform work, building on theoretical discussions of dependence, embeddedness, and fairness. David’s work has been published in Socius, Sociology of Religion, and Management and Organization Review

AJ Kurdi

Ethnic Studies & Women’s and Gender Studies, UC Berkeley

AJ Kurdi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Ethnic Studies, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation research is a comparative study on different forms of ethnic minority queer organizing in various social contexts in Europe and North America, and how they shape the priorities and political orientations of mainstream LGBTQI movements, laws and public policies in Europe and North America. The project uses mixed qualitative and quantitative methods including document analysis, correlational analysis,...

Yasmín Landa

Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley

Yasmín Landa is a doctoral student in the Clinical Science program at the University of California, Berkeley, mentored by Dr. Giovanni Ramos. She earned her B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Washington. As an undergraduate, she was funded by the Ronald E. McNair Scholars and Mary Gates Research programs to conduct an independent project examining how social and physical inpatient experiences influence post-hospitalization treatment engagement. After graduation, she worked as a Research Study Coordinator at the School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (...

Andrea Lara-Garcia

Geography, UC Berkeley

I study the emergence of—and relationship between—propertied and territorial ways of relating to land, specifically in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. I am particularly interested in how non-federal actors - including - state governors, migrants, and Indigenous communities - contesr federal hegemony and assert sovereignty over the space of the border through property frameworks.

My undergraduate research at the University of Arizona examined housing inequality in Tucson’s manufactured housing communities and historically Mexican neighborhoods, especially through the mechanism of the...

Zhuofan Li

Sociology, University of Arizona

Jonathan Marty

City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Jonathan is a PhD student in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design with Designated Emphases in Global Metropolitan Studies and Political Economy. His current research examines the governance of urban public space in New York City, Oakland, and Paris, as well as international organizing and advocacy movements around social housing. A critical, interdisciplinary social scientist committed to the study of urban inequalities, statecraft, and the production of space, Jonathan has previously conducted work on the effects of gentrification in Chicago Public...

Bri Matusovsky

Medical Anthropology, UCSF-UC Berkeley

Bri Matusovsky's dissertation research follows green monkeys (Chlorocebus Sabaeus), invasive pests on the island of St. Kitts, a primarily Black Caribbean island with small minorities of wealthy white and East Indian residents who control a significant amount of its wealth and resources. Green monkeys were introduced as a by-product of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are now differently valued in scientific research, tourism, and conservationism. The increasing frequency of encounters between humans and monkeys, and related food insecurity experienced by both humans and monkeys, is...