Grad Student - ISSI

Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Born in Mexico City, she holds a BA and MA in Latin American Studies, with a second MA in Anthropology. Her research focuses on long-term human-environmental interactions, examining traditional agricultural practices among the Indigenous Zapotec people in the Northern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico. She investigates the impact of these practices on environmental resilience and cultural persistence within these communities. Sandra's academic interests include decoloniality, discussions on food sustainability and...

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 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....