Grad Student - ISSI

Sierra Hampton

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Hasan Henry

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Hasan Henry (he/him) is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests lie in issues of racial modernity, Black masculinities and gender, and the sociology of sexuality, situated within an interdisciplinary framing that includes DuBoisian Sociology, Black Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Hasan's current project concerns the social antecedents to the formation of sexual desire, investigating how contemporary sexual practices, desires, and representations of Black sexuality have been shaped by the colonial encounter and its afterlives—...

Zachary Lorico Hertz

Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Zachary Lorico Hertz is a Ph.D. student in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is particularly interested in understanding how race and class identity develop, are expressed through political behavior, and intersect with power in local politics. In his research, he uses causal inference methods and survey data to study the effects an increasingly diverse and partisan electorate will have on representation and sub-national institutions. His current project uses both experimental and observational methods to assess the...

Hu Hsu

History, UC Berkeley

Cathy Hu

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Cathy Hu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her work sits at the intersection of punishment and society, social movements, and political sociology. Currently, she is working on a qualitative project examining criminal and racial justice activism in the Bay Area. This project focuses on the county criminal court as a new site of intervention for social movements from across the political spectrum. Before starting at Berkeley, Cathy worked as a research analyst at the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center and received a BA in Sociology from Rice...

Victoria Huynh

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

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...

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...

Pilar Jefferson

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

Pilar Jefferson (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies whose work focuses on the intersections of Black and Native racial representation and creative interventions in US museums. She received her BA in Art History and Native American Studies from Vassar College in 2015 and her MA in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley in 2022. Before matriculating at UC Berkeley, Pilar worked as a museum educator in New York City at institutions including the Museum of the City of New York and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her dissertation combines archival research with participant...

Jessica Jiang

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley