Understanding how micro affirmations support multiply marginalized social justice school leaders to thrive Author(s): Cheung, Rebecca; Ballard, Aukeem | Abstract: Purpose: This paper illuminates and amplifies enduring wisdom from the everyday experiences of thriving women of color soc...

ISSI grad student Aukeem Ballard co-authored an article in the Journal of Educational Administration that amplifies wisdom from the experiences of women of color social justice school leaders who receive & give micro affirmations as part of their leadership praxis. escholarship.org/uc/item/6sr0...

John Konicki, Center for Right-Wing Studies grad student, received the 2026 Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship for his paper, "Ideological Resentment: The Role of Asymmetric Grievances in Conservative Politics." igs.berkeley.edu/student-oppo...

Breaking Barriers, Building Community 🌟 May 5, 9am-7pm

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Our symposium features first-year Graduate Fellows: Larissa Benjamin, @agessesse.bsky.social, Jessica Law, Lisa Ng, Robert Ortiz Stahl, Marlena Robbins, and Kieren Rudge

Hidden Figures: The Women Who’ve Shaped Our Ideas of Capitalism, Markets, and the State YouTube video by issi

Check out this keynote talk given by Jennifer Burns, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of US History at Stanford University from our recent conference, Women on the Right in U.S. History. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf4Q...

Interweaving the past, present, and future to call forth a Critical Race Wāhine ʻŌiwi Epistemology This article draws on ancestral practices of storytelling and weaving to conceptualize a Critical Race Wāhine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian women) Epistemology for contemporary scholars. Foundational ways...

New article by Kourtney Kawano, Asian American Research Center affiliate, has been published in the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. The article draws on ancestral practices to conceptualize a Critical Race Wāhine ʻŌiwi Epistemology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sponsors: Gender Equity Resource Center, Night Out / Night Off, Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, Trans Student Wellness Initiative, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Multicultural Community Center

Join us on Wednesday, April 29, at 4:30 PM for a book talk on "So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color" with the author, Caro De Robertis.

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‘I’m doing it willingly’: understanding moral agency, empathy, and stigma in the context of sexualised drug use Research on sexualised drug use often emphasises adverse health outcomes and risk management with limited exploration of the social and ethical dimensions of moral agency and harm reduction practic...

Daryl Mangosing, an alum of the Institute & a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, published an article with Evan van Dommelen-Gonzalez & ISSI faculty affiliate Mark Fleming in the journal Culture, Health & Sexuality. Read more below! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UC Berkeley faculty weigh Chavez allegations and support student center renaming For decades, Cesar Chavez has been honored at UC Berkeley as a symbol of resistance, dignity and Latinx political power. Now, new sexual abuse allegations are prompting faculty to reexamine that legacy and to ask what happens when a movement's hero becomes an apparent source of harm. In response, Berkeley Social Sciences and Chicanx Latinx Studies Program faculty are supporting UC Berkeley's efforts to review the naming of the Cesar Chavez Student Center, and faculty are reframing the conversation around accountability, representation and public memory.

ISSI faculty members Christian Paiz, Cristina Mora, and Laura Pérez discuss efforts to review the naming of the Cesar Chavez Student Center, reframing the conversation around accountability, representation and public memory. ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...

Cati de los Ríos, affiliate of the Center for Ethnographic Research & Center for Research on Social Change, received the 2026 Early Career Award from @aeraedresearch.bsky.social. Her research examines the literacy/language practices of immigrant & bi/multilingual youth.

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Lena Chen and NAMI [Evan Sakuma], Asian American Research Center grad students, curated Studio Visits, a series of virtual artist-scholar dialogues. The conversation has been documented in Theatre Journal and reflects on artistic process, sexuality, and motherhood. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Join us to celebrate social change as we honor the 2023 - 2026 recipients of the FOUNDATIONS FOR CHANGE: Thomas I. Yamashita Prize and KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize!
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Expecting Inequity Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, Expectin...

New book by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate Khiara Bridges explores the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205155...

Carceral networking and penal liminality: A case study of a security NGO - Xavier Alexander Durham, 2026 More than 600,000 people leave U.S. jails and prisons annually, a chronic policy concern for the penal state and welfare providers with many interventions recom...

Article by ISSI grad student Xavier Durham highlights how more than 600,000 people leave U.S. jails/prisons annually & how security NGOs hire formerly incarcerated people, pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize/measure the (re)production of socio-economic inequality. doi.org/10.1177/1462...

Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, affiliate of the Asian American Research Center & the Center for Research on Social Change, has been appointed the co-chair of the UC Office of the President systemwide Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Initiative Advisory Board.

Traditional Pacific navigators bring the intricate science of wayfinding to the Bay Area - Berkeley News Organized by Sophia Perez, Indigenous Technologies Coordinator for the Berkeley Center for New Media, a weeklong series of public workshops beginning March 9 will feature master navigators teaching ev...

Sophia Perez, an Asian American Research Center grad student, organized a weeklong series, "Native Seas," that brought 4 traditional navigators from the Pacific Islands to lead sessions and public workshops on the sophisticated science of traditional seafaring. news.berkeley.edu/2026/03/09/n...

When Courts Strengthen Democracy: Legal Mobilization in Chile’s Water Rights Movement Diego Ramírez discusses the paradox of legal mobilization. The civil rights discourse that once dismantled segregation now reduces public support ...

Join Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez on Wednesday, April 1 at noon for "When Courts Strengthen Democracy: Legal Mobilization in Chile's Water Rights Movement." Diego is a visiting scholar at ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change and a PhD candidate at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Details below!

Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest YouTube video by issi

Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han, Authors of "Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest" (Stanford University Press, 2025), offer insight into the utility and futility of protesting precarity under neoliberal capitalism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyV...

Despite budget threats, UC Berkeley invests in six new tenure-track Asian American and Pacific Islands specialists - Berkeley News A decade-long effort to expand classes and better serve the university’s Asian American and Pacific Islander students culminated in a “cluster hire” that spans various schools and disciplines.

Based at the Asian American Research Center, the new Asian American & Pacific Islander Transpacific Futures cluster focuses on expanding networks in research, building new partnerships with the community, and increasing the university's public impact. news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/03/d...

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Big Thanks from CRWS! Your support made Big Give a big success for us! We raised a total of $12,730 from 17 donors. If you missed it, your support of critical research on the right is always appreciated: give.berkeley.edu/fund/FU0996000

Join us on March 19 at 6 p.m. for @ajbauer.bsky.social's talk on his new book, "Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press" (@columbiaup.bsky.social, 2026). And don't miss the book reception at 5:30!

Towards a Community-Driven Framework to Promote Justice for Agricultural Workers Published in Journal of Agromedicine (Ahead of Print, 2026)

ISSI grad student Laura Diaz co-authored a letter to the editor in the Journal of Agromedicine that discusses how the authors of a previous article in the same journal failed to frame the discussion around issues of environmental injustice. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AXDEV...

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In 18th‑century China, these artists made Europeans’ portraits. Only now are their identities emerging. - Berkeley News Berkeley Professor Winnie Wong's new book, "The Many Names of Anonymity," is the first to explore in depth the lives and motivations of the Chinese artists during the Canton trade.

Winnie Wong, an Asian American Research Center faculty affiliate, has published a new book, The Many Names of Anonymity—the first in-depth study of the Chinese artists who painted portraits of European merchants during the 18th- and 19th-century Canton trade. news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/29/w...

The US Deportation System: History, Impacts, and New Empirical Research The United States is unique in the size and scope of its deportation system. Between 2001 and 2022, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carried out nearly 6.5 million deportations. Deportatio...

Caitlin Patler, faculty affiliate, is co-editor of this special issue that conceptualizes deportation as a system that encompasses premigration, within-US, and post-deportation contexts and outcomes rather than a singular event that happens to an individual. www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/4/1

Culture and everyday learning across contexts: learning with Luis Moll / Cultura y aprendizaje cotidiano entre distintos contextos: aprendiendo con Luis Moll - Kris D. Gutiérrez, Barbara Rogoff, 2025 This paper brings three bodies of work that share an intellectual and social history into conversation to engage several key ideas in cultural historical theori...

Kris Gutiérrez, Center for Research on Social Change faculty affiliate, co-authored a paper showing the relationship between Luis Moll's concept of households' Funds of Knowledge and Barbara Rogoff and Gutiérrez’s concept of repertoires of practice. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...