Grad Student - ISSI

Taesoo Song

City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Taesoo Song is a Ph.D. Candidate in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. His research leverages quantitative and geospatial methods to investigate how housing policies and planning influence residential mobility and neighborhood change for low-income and minority households in American cities. Taesoo's dissertation examines the housing experiences of Asian Americans, challenging the prevailing narrative that they face minimal barriers in the housing market. His work focuses on: 1) ethnic, class, and locational variations in Asian homeownership, 2) the...

Sandra Oseguera Sotomayor

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

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...

Amanda Su

English, UC Berkeley

Emily Fjaellen Thompson

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nathan Tilton

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

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....

Rosario Torres

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Karen Villegas

School of Education, UC Berkeley

Karen Villegas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Karen’s dissertation analyzes the ways in which economic and language ideologies work together to socialize aspiring U.S. citizens to be literate in a ‘neoliberal’ ideation of citizenship. The context of the study is an adult, English as a Second Language (ESL), naturalization course with a focus on the social organization of the practices, the ideologies indexed in these practices, and the ensuing formations of literacies produced in these settings. Karen received her M...

Charlotte Wang

Sociology, Columbia

Katherine Wolf

Environmental Science (ESPM), UC Berkeley

Alexis Wood

Geography, UC Berkeley

Alexis Wood is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and the Berkeley Center for New Media. She researches the growing intersections between climate change, digital geographies, and rural socio-political movements, with a particular interest in current secessionist state movements in the United States. In this, her project asks how participants in these types of movements incorporate heightened levels of climate anxiety with existing feelings of rural marginalization in both physical and digital landscapes to better understand the rural/urban divide.