Grad Student - ISSI

Cameron Enyu Gan is pursuing their Ph.D. in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. They have held a policy internship with the International Detention Coalition and research assistantships with PrisonPandemic at UC Irvine and the Govern Through Contagion project at the National University of Singapore. Prior to graduate school, Cameron received B.A.s from UC Irvine, graduating magna cum laude in Criminology, Law and Society, and East Asian Cultures.

Cameron’s research interests lie at the intersection of immigration, the carceral state,...

Alexandra Gessesse is a cultural worker, daughter of the diaspora, and PhD Candidate in the Department of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Alexandra’s dissertation examines how Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants navigate historically Black neighborhoods in the U.S., forging new forms of belonging through the lenses of place, politics, and popular culture. As a visual storyteller, Alexandra uses photography and video to capture the everyday moments where these complex negotiations of identity unfold—revealing how Blackness is performed, contested, and reimagined...

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.

Sarah Halabe is a PhD student in Ethnic Studies, where she studies US Third Worldism, anti-imperial student movements, and leftist Asian American political formations of the late 60s and 70s. Her research specifically looks at the role of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organizations in the Asian American Political Movement and how these groups were theorizing the national liberation struggles happening throughout the Third World. Sarah was born and raised in the Bay Area and received her B.A. in English and American Studies from Scripps College.