Tak-Huen Chau is a PhD candidate in political science and MA candidate in economics. He is interested in social identities and political behavior in general. Currently, he is working on projects that utilize formal theory and surveys to explain dominant group attitudes on national identity, assimilation, and bilingual education.
Lee Crandall is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at UC Berkeley, broadly researching the effects of blockchain/cryptocurrencies and digital technologies on infrastructures, lands, and lives. Their dissertation research traces the intersection of venture capitalism, far-right extremism, and techno-authoritarianism as connected to cryptocurrency and plots for new tech-cities around the globe. Building on work in the Frankfurt School, they engage critical theory to better understand the dialectic of technology’s dominating tendencies and its democratizing powers. As a...
Grant Durow is a PhD student in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on conservative and far-right politics, political parties, activist networks, and the intersection of religion and politics with a regional focus on Western Europe. His work examines both how party leader rhetoric and identity contribute to the normalization of far-right parties in Europe and how conservative parties and their activist bases have responded to secularization and changing partisan cleavages around multiculturalism and national identity. Grant primarily uses...
Cameron Enyu Gan is pursuing their Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. They have held a policy internship with the International Detention Coalition and research assistantships with PrisonPandemic at UC Irvine and the Govern Through Contagion project at the National University of Singapore. Prior to graduate school, Cameron received B.A.s from UC Irvine, graduating magna cum laude in Criminology, Law and Society, and East Asian Cultures.
Cameron’s research interests lie at the intersection of immigration, the carceral state,...
