Grad Student - CRWS

Anatol Klass

History, UC Berkeley

John Konicki

Political Science, UC Berkeley

Josefina Valdes Lanas

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Josefina Valdes Lanas researches religious imagination and mystical practices in contemporary Catholicism in its relation to neo-liberal economics and secular citizenship. Using the methods of linguistic anthropology, she analyzes spiritual exercises deeply entrenched in Christian theology that are being transformed by the moral governance of liberal ideologies.

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...

Tyler Leeds

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Hilary Lynd

History, UC Berkeley

William Rathje

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Natasha Shannon

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Natasha Shannon

ESPM, UC Berkeley

Alexandra Simonova

Anthropology, UC Berkeley