Grad Student - ISSI

Anna Zaret

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley

Anna Zaret is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. She has research interests in medical and scientific evidence, criminal procedure, and tort law, where she combines her expertise in political economy and political theory to approach contemporary problems related to police violence, health policy, and social inequality. She was previously a fellow at the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy and clerked for the Hon. Laurel Beeler in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and. She received her J.D. magna cum laude...

Tianyue Zhang

Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

Ashley Zhou

Berkeley School of Education, UC Berkeley

Ashley Zhou is a student of the Joint Doctoral program in special education with UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on structures of race, class, gender, and disability in special education through the role of the paraprofessional. Analyzing historical archives, she examines the labor formation of paraprofessionals and special education teachers in the aftermath of Brown. Her work also incorporates ethnography to examine the consequences of this labor formation for contemporary challenges in special education. Through this investigation of educational...

Jaclyn Zhou

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Jaclyn Zhou is a PhD candidate in the department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Her research interests include fan studies, Asian and Asian American popular culture, digital technology and embodiment, tourism studies, and race and empire. Her dissertation explores the relationship between anime-inspired tourism and national and racial identity construction in the Japanese and global anime fandom. She is also a founding member of the Media Education Research Lab (MERL), a UC Berkeley-based lab developing methods for measuring and...

Raquel Zitani-Rios

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Raquel Xitlali Zitani-Rios (She/They) is a PhD student interested in how cultural frameworks shape identity, public perceptions, civic engagement, and responses to social inequality, with particular attention to urban space, power, and belonging. Using qualitative methods, Raquel's research examines how community dynamics and local governance mediate struggles over inclusion and exclusion in the Bay Area.