Grad Student - ISSI

Benjamin Fields

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Annette Gailliot

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Annette Gailliot is a graduate student in the Sociology department at UC Berkeley. Using computational and historical methods, she studies how technology is changing work-based inequalities and regulations. Her master’s project examines how automation affects Medicaid eligibility determination and access across states. Prior work explores how unemployment insurance buffered service sector workers’ financial and physical wellbeing during COVID. Other work has examined the effectiveness of Ban-the-Box and Fair Chance policies on employment levels and working conditions for workers with prior...

Jesus Alejandro Garcia

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Alejo's work sits at the intersection of political ecology, riverine territorialities, and environmental justice. His dissertation analyzes the histories, dynamics, and struggles to make and remake the riverine landscape of the Upper Magdalena River (UMR), Colombia, and its political implications for peasant and fisherfolk communities. Alejo asks how green capital’s attempts to stabilize, disrupt, or rework land-water interfaces shape and are shaped by peasants' and fisherfolk's longstanding struggles against dispossession. Native to the UMR region, Alejo uses community-engaged...

Alexandra Gessesse

Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley

Alexandra Gessesse is a PhD student in the Department of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley, where she thinks and writes about the global politics of Blackness, diasporic identity construction, community and neighborhood organizations, and transnationalism. Her research investigates the relationship between geography and the sense of belonging that Black migrants forge within U.S. Black communities — examining how they define their identity through the lenses of place, politics, and popular culture. Employing visual storytelling, Alexandra uses photos and videos as a medium to delve...

Ritika Goel

Political Science, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Gottlieb

UCSF-UCB Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Gottlieb is an MD-PhD student in medical anthropology. They study changing ideas of the human and subjectivity through ethnographic research with neuropsychiatric researchers, clinicians, and those living with Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses.

Adriana Green

African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Jesús Gutiérrez

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jesús Gutiérrez is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. His research, teaching and writing cluster around themes related to mediation, performance and embodiment; religion, ritual, and the secular; and temporality, memory and historical consciousness in Black Atlantic societies. His dissertation analyzes the concepts of fugitivity, ancestrality and multiplicity that are activated and disseminated in Afro-Brazilian aesthetic traditions. His ethnographic research suggests that what is at stake in the cultural politics of certain popular and folk art forms of the...

Sierra Hampton

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

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...