Spring 2022
Graduate

C. Darius Gordon
Education
‘We, on the other side’: Black Internationalism in the Lusophone World, 1950s-1980s

Gabriella Licata
Spanish and Portuguese
Evaluating attitude changes in progress towards "native speaker" status in Italy

Rayan Lotfi
Joint Medical Program
Utilizing Healthcare Provider Experiences to Develop a Medical Curriculum Supportive of the Care of Vulnerable Populations

Gisselle Perez-Leon
History
Border Business: Race, Gender, and the Right to the City in Nogales, Sonora, 1918-1965

Antonia Mardones Marshall
Sociology
Who counts as Black? Classification Struggles and the Legal Recognition of Afrodescendants in Argentina and Chile

Tessa Wood
Comparative Literature
Understanding Race and Gender in the Legacies of Brazil's Peripheral Literature
Undergraduate

Lucia Huerta
Sociology
A Mother's Journey: Notions of Motherhood in Asylum-Seeker Mothers Remaining in Mexico
Fall 2021
Graduate

Jessa Culver
Joint Medical Program
Centering the Lived Experiences of Caregivers of Color Navigating Early Intervention (EI) Services through the Primary Care Clinic

Douglas Epps
School of Social Welfare
Utilizing Race-Class Narrative Frames to Mobilize Support for Community-Based Alternatives to Immigration Detention

Joy Esboldt
Education
Teacher Racial Equity Learning: A multi-level analysis about racial equity meanings, mediations, and mentoring

Luis Tenorio
Sociology
Making the Transition: Formerly Undocumented, Now Legal Permanent Resident Latinos in the United States
Undergraduate

Danielle Cosmes
Ethnic Studies
Me Espera un Pueblo: Return Migration to Ancestral Homelands in Oaxaca, Mexico

Brenda Gomez
Sociology, Education
Podcasts and Posadas: Communal Linkages as Transformative Teaching Practices

Do Khym
Geography
This is the best farming country in the world, what a pity it has been cursed in the habitating race.

Bianca Torres Murray
Ethnic Studies
The Silencing Effects of the Rhetoric of Representation in Law Enforcement: Latinos in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Spring 2021
Graduate

Mitzia Martinez Castellanos
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
From Illegalized to Legalized: A Study on Immigrants that Undergo Legalization

Aya Fabros
Sociology
Institutionalized Precarity: States, Philippine Migrants and the Making of Global Worker Families, 1974-2020

Jessie Garcia Gutierrez
Public Health & Social Welfare
Accessing the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health of Transgender and Non-Binary People of Color

Sara Knutson
Anthropology
Arabs and Slavs in the Global North: Perspectives on Race and Slavery in the Medieval Past

Meghna Mukherjee
Sociology
Immaculate Re-Conception: Redefining Health and Reproductive Risk Using Prenatal Genetic Testing

Lesdi Goussen Robleto
Art History
(Un)Mending Bodies: Patricia Belli and Feminist Artistic Praxis in Central America, 1986-2000s

Peng Yin
Education
The Racialization of International Student Mobility: Roots, Effects, and Implications for American Higher Education Institutions
Undergraduate

Nilufar Kayhani
Public Health
Sofreh Salamati: Creating A Health Education Intervention for Afghan Refugee Women

MARIA CRISTINA ORTIZ
Ethnic Studies, Political Science
Forbidden Fruit: Exposing the Underbelly of Napa’s Wine Industry Through the Exploration of Latinx Immigrant Labor

Sera Smith
Rhetoric, African American Studies
Rearticulated Healing Experiences in the Adaptation of "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf"
Fall 2020
Graduate

Jesus Nazario
Ethnic Studies
From the Alto Balsas to the Long Point: Diasporic Nahua Political Formations Beyond Mexican-U.S. Borders

Karen Villegas
Education
Languaging “to be” Neoliberal: Understanding the Ideological Practices of the Naturalization Process

Claire Wrigley
History
Family, Nation, Empire: An Imperial History of Public Housing in Britain, 1890-2017
Undergraduate

Justin Dela Cruz
Ethnic Studies
Queering the Closet: How LGBTQ+ Filipino American Undergraduates Disrupt Normative Frameworks of Coming Out

Jacqueline Forsyte
American Studies
Race, Trans* Identity, and Nation in Los Angeles: La Fiesta de Los Angeles of 1894 and the Anti-Masquerading Ordinance of 1897

Da Eun Jung
Sociology; Legal Studies
Korean Women’s Perceptions on Korean Abortion Policy Changes and the U.S. Abortion Debate

Emily Mantaro
History
Sterilization and Abortion in the Late Weimar Republic: Policy, Personal Choice, and Eugenics

Laura Yaneth Martinez
Sociology
Desviando “What’s best for those kids”: An Analysis on the Implementation of Ethnic Studies in K-12 Schools

Sydney Pon
Sociology
Yellow Peril to “Kung Flu”: How Disease has Racialized and is Racializing Asian Americans
Fall 2019
Graduate

Omi Salas-SantaCruz
Doctoral Candidate, Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender in Education
Learning to Be: A Critical Phenomenology of Institutional Transphobia as Recounted by Trans Latinx Students Navigating College Life

Nallely Mejia
Sociology
The Social and Cultural Tensions in Mexican Immigrant Families’ Acquisition, Use, and Understandings of Wealth and Household Finances

Alicia Sheares
Sociology
Navigating Inequality: Black Tech Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and Atlanta

Melanie Plasencia
Ethnic Studies conc. Latina/o/x Studies
How Older Latinas Collectively Care for “Chosen Family”

Isabel García Valdivia
Sociology
Unequal Aging: The Effects of Legal Status Trajectories on Older Mexican Immigrants’ Strategies in Later Life
Undergraduate

Clara Jimenez
English with Creating Writing Minor
Transforming Melancholia: Depression and Female Coping in Morrison's Beloved, Jones' Corregidora, and Walker's The Color Purple

Gitika Nalwa
Economics and English
Strange Fruit: Male Racial Identity and the American Wilderness, 1830-1950

Sydney Belen Garcia
Psychology and Gender & Women Studies
Not Just Words?: Relationship between news consumption, daily emotions, and stress for farmworkers
Spring 2020
Graduate

Donna Honarpisheh
Comparative Literature
Possession as Form: The Modernist Temporality of Zar in 20th Century Iran

David Turner III
Social and Cultural Studies in Education/Critical Studies in Race, Class, and Gender
Free Our Dreams: A Comparative Analysis of Political Meaning-Making in Black Male Youth Activists in Los Angeles

Melissa McCall
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Nurture or Neglect: Race, Gender, and the Social Psychology of Misogyny

David Philoxene
GSE - Social Cultural Studies
A Geography of Violence and Safety: Black Youth, Spatial & Racial Logics

Willow Frye
School of Public Health/Joint Medical Program
Transgender perspectives on the use of detention for asylum seekers and its impact on their health and wellbeing

Gabriel Lesser
Spanish and Portuguese
Caricaturing the Nation: Race, Gender, Social Sciences, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-century Mexico and Brazil

Bryce Becker
Education
The Coloniality of Statewide Literacy Testing and #OptOut as a Decolonial Option
Undergraduate

Elizabeth Vergara
English
Ana Castillo's "Black Dove"; Turning Painful Rape Experiences Into Narratives for Chicanas

Jasmine Sozi
Ethnic Studies
It’s a Racialized World After All: A Transnational Study of Oakland, California and Durban, South Africa as Racialized, Yet Resistant Geographies

Shelby Mayes
Political Science
An Analysis of Matriarchy and Afro-Indigenous Spiritual Traditions of the Trans-Atlantic Diaspora

Miranda Mosley
Social Welfare and Education
Colorblind and Colorist: Femme-Centered Anti-Blackness in US Education

Nayzak Wali-Ali
Legal Studies and Ethnic Studies
“Ain’t I a Woman”: The Histories and Criminalization of Black Women Organizers within the UC System
Spring 2019
Graduate

Alice Taylor
Education
The Youth Turn: Brazilian Youth Movements for Social Justice and Higher Education

Jaleel M. Plummer
Anthropology
Mental Health and the Everyday Life of Afro-Caribbeans Living in the UK

Sarah Whitt
Ethnic Studies (Native American Studies), designated emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
False Promises: Race, Power, and the Chimera of Indian Assimilation 1879-1934

Jarre Hamilton
Anthropology
Race, Place, and Other Things for the Taking: Archaeological Examinations of the Buffalo Soldiers and Allensworth, California, 1890-1920

Krista Cortes
Education
Designing New Scripts: Exploring the Everyday Practices of Blackness Amongst Afro- Puerto Rican Families in California
Undergraduate

Kristina Echevarria
Social Welfare and Education
Investigating the Social Influence of Dystopian Literature

Fallon Burner
History
Healing Through Language: The History of the Weⁿdat Language and Waⁿdat Dialect

Maria Lúa Cázares
History
The Forgotten Afro-Mexicans: Independence and the Role of Women (1800-1830)

Yujane Chen
Ethnic Studies
Fluid Futurities: Fish and Aquatic Creatures as Representations of Queer Migrancy in 21st Century US Poetry
Fall 2018
Graduate

T(h)eresa Burruel Stone
Graduate School of Education
Pláticas y Acción Beyond the Classroom: Xicana/Latina Youth’s Navigations of Pathways to Success

Victoria M. Massie
Sociocultural Anthropology
Assembling Genetic Ancestry: Race, Return, and the Materiality of Home in Cameroon

Mindy J. Price
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Examining the Feminist Political Economy of Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Northwest Territories, Canada

Sophie Clara Major
Energy and Resources Group
Indigenous Political Thought: Sechelt and Haida Theories of Sovereignty

Bernadette Lim
UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Woke WOC Docs: A Creative Multimedia Storytelling Project by and for WOC in Medicine
Undergraduate

Lee-Or Scarlat
Gender and Women's Studies, Public Health
Access to Fertility Preservation for Low-Income Transgender Youth in the Bay Area: Barriers, Narratives, and Looking Forward

Cheyenne Seneca
Sociology (Major), Native American Studies (Minor)
Decolonizing Our Minds and Actions: Building Relationships and Mapping Community Across the American Indian Urban and Reserve Divide

Pan Narez-Mendez
Gender and Women's Studies & Comparative Ethnic Studies
Examining Hegemonic Visions of Futures in Outer Space: A Discourse Analysis of NewSpace

Giovanni D'Ambrosio
Sociology
The Political Construction of Survivor Support: Imagining Need and Visioning Strategy Within the Bay Area’s Anti-Sexual Violence Movement
Spring 2018
Graduate

Fantasia Painter
Ethnic Studies
Bordering the Tohono O'odham: Enforcing the Boundaries of Race, Gender, Indigeneity, and Land at the US-Mexico Border, 1870-1930

Laura Belik
Architecture – History, Theory and Society
Racial and spatial exclusions in Brazil: Concentration Camps and the Nordestinos’ migratory histories

Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza
Ethnic Studies
San Pasqual Battlefield Volunteer Association: An Oral History

Jenni(f)fer Tamayo
Performance Studies
Writing (Our) Voices into the Archive: Poets of Color Writing on Radical Vocal Performance

Hector (Tito) Callejas
Ethnic Studies
Multicultural State Reforms and Indigenous Land Rights in El Salvador

Michaela Simmons
Sociology
Producing Delinquency: The Struggle for Racial Integration in the Foster Care System, 1920s-1950s

Elizabeth Löwe Hunter
African American Studies
Race, Gender and Belonging - The African Diaspora in Denmark

Caroline Tracey
Geography
Inside the Space of Exception: Life, Death, and Land in the South Texas Borderlands

Olivia K. Young
African American Studies
How the Black Body Bends: Sensorial Distortions of the Black Female Body in Contemporary Art, 1960-2016

Ashton Wesner
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Cultures of Settler Militarism: Race, Environmental Masulinity, and the Ecologization of Drone Warfare
Undergraduate

Shelby Mack
American Studies
#BlackGirlsMatterToo: Understanding the Development of Black Female Enrichment Programs in Oakland CA

Anthony R. Carrasco
Political Science, Legal Studies, Public Policy
Towards a Critical Race Theory of Homelessness and Education: Racial Mircoaggressions among Homeless Youth of Color
Fall 2017
Graduate

Johanna Figueroa
School of Public Health
Getting to the Root of It: Deconstructing Alcoholism in the Salvadoran Diaspora Community

Kenly Brown
African American Studies
“The Disciplinary Dumping Ground”: The Construction of Black Girlhood in an Alternative School

Bayley Marquez
School of Education
Settler Pedagogy: Schooling in Indian Country, the Black South, and Colonial Hawaii, 1840-1923

Desiree Valadares
Architecture
Race, Rights, and Reparations: The Material Culture of World War II Confinement Camps in Canada and the United States

Malika Imhotep & Miyuki Baker
African American Studies, Performance Studies
The Church of Black Feminist Thought: Visual Theory-Telling Maps and Gatherings

Kelly Johnson
Public Health
A Qualitative Exploration of Minority Stress and Psychosocial Resources among Trans, Genderqueer and Non-binary Adolescents of Color

Anthony Wright
Medical Anthropology
Therapeutic Artifacts: Race, Gender, and Cultural Production in the Context of Adolescent Cancer Treatment
Undergraduate

Sailakshmi Senthil Kumar
Anthropology
Lingual Choices: The Taboo of Sexual, Reproductive, and Women's Health in India

Betsy Rohney
Interdisciplinary Studies
My Language is Awakening: Exploring Motivations and Barriers of Heritage Language Learning within Urban Māori Millennials

Caitlin Hoover
Legal Studies
Gendering the Death Penalty: Intersectionality and Incarceration in India’s Criminal Justice System
Spring 2017
Graduate

Zainab Ramahi
School of Law
Towards an environmentally-conservative, gender-equitable, economically just property law system in Indian-administered Kashmir

Michael Singh
School of Education
The cultural production of the Latino male role model: Male mentorship programs and the discursive and embodied Latino male educator

toshi pau
Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Sexual Asiancies: Queer Asian Males and Sexual Labor

Kelechi Uwaezuoke
School of Public Health
The Case of the Leaky Pipeline: Exploring the Premed Experiences of Under-Represented Minority Students in the UC System
Undergraduate

Dylan Bush
Latin American Studies
Buscando Y’ol: Comparing Perceptions of Access to Healthcare Between Maya and Latina Women in East Oakland

Elizabeth Gonzalez
Sociology
San Joaquin Valley Women's Experiences Accessing Abortion Services in California

Celine Liao
Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies
From Canton Maids to Filipino Domestic Helpers: Migrant Labor Transition in Hong Kong Domestic Service Market

Nicole Andrea Prucha
Mathematics, English
Queer(ing) Interracial Relationships: Seeking Liberation at Intersections of Difference
Fall 2016
Graduate

Alexandra Havrylyshyn
Jurisprudence & Social Policy
Property as Power: How Enslaved Women and Girls Gained Access to Justice in Antebellum Louisiana

Amani Morrison
African American Studies
Domestic Architecture and Spatial Performance in Great Migration Chicago

Joanne Tien
School of Education
Educating for Freedom: A study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1968-1975

Jen Smith
Ethnic Studies
Ordering Space, Spatializing Order: Land and Race in Edward Curtis’ Photography of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition

Aaron Gregory Young
Department of City and Regional Planning
The Landscape of Urban Restitution in South Africa

Natalee Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer Bauer
Graduate School of Education
(En)gendering Whiteness: A Historical Analysis of White Womanhood, Colonial Anxieties, and “Tender Violence” in US Schools

Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
The Tree of Life: The Politics of Kinship in Meiji Japan and Victorian Britain
Undergraduate

Julia Fatima Malakiman
Peace and Conflict Studies
Islamophobia Rising: The Nicois en Nour Mosque and 2016 Terrorist Attack in Nice, France
Spring 2016
Graduate

Kirsten M.G. Vacca
Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology
Reconstructing Daily Life in Early Hawaiian Communities

Nicole D. Ramsey
African American & African Diaspora Studies
Unpacking Blackness: Cultural Exchange and Identity Formations in Afro-Costa Rica

John Mundell
African American and African Diaspora Studies, with a designated emphasis in Gender & Women’s Studies
Black Navy, Queer Navy

Kavitha Iyengar
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Litigating Unwritten Law: reading Sam Hose's brutal murder, white newspaper opinion, and Ida Wells' anti-lynching campaign as legal discourse and recourse

Derrika Hunt
Graduate School of Education
Windows of Possibility: Giving Voice to the experiences of Black girls

Kathleen Gutierrez
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Rendering the Native through the Language of Philippine Plants, 1871 - 1898

Jennifer Duque
Ethnic Studies
Revisiting the Philippine Reservation: The Missouri History Museum and the Re-exhibition of the 1904 World's Fair
Undergraduate

amy huỳnh
Geography
Intersectional Analysis of Food Security in Nepal's Mid-Hills: Gender, Remittances and Caste

Bonnie Cherry
Interdisciplinary Studies: Statelessness and Forced Migration
Queering Sovereignty: Conflict and Human Rights in the Tohono O’Odham Nation

Laura Cahier
Sociology
From discriminatory immigration policies toward the development of racialized feminist movements in France: the example of Maghrebin women immigrant
Fall 2015
Graduate

Fithawee Tzeggai
Sociology
Race, Inequality, and the Strategic Limits of Desegregation: Symbolic Struggles over School Reform in the Wake of Chicago’s Civil Rights Movement

Jiselle Warner Rouet
Music (Ethnomusicology)
Sounding the Transnational: Caribbean Jazz in Trinidad and Tobago

Evyn Lê Espiritu
Rhetoric
Troubling Humanitarian Discourses: Vietnamese Refugee Diaspora in Guam and Israel

Arathi Govind
Department of Music
Locating Multiplicity: Rethinking U.S. Popular Music Through Indian American Practices

Kankan Xie
South & Southeast Asian Studies
Estranged Comrades: Communism, Identity Politics, and Interwoven Networks of the Late Colonial Malay World, 1927-1942

Christina Bush
African American Studies
Black Soled: Sneakers, Masculine Mis-embodiment, and the Racial Life of Things
Undergraduate

Eiman Kazi
Public Health
Understanding Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Female Pakistani Americans

Irving Salas Barrios
Sociology
Gender & Technology: The Gender Disparity in Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Spring 2015
Graduate

Hannah Waits
History
Missionary Positions: American Evangelicals and the Transnational History of the Culture Wars, 1945-2000
Undergraduate

Crisis Journal Team
Rodrigo Ochigame (Interdisciplinary Studies), Meg Perret (Gender and Women’s Studies), Taliah Mirmalek (Rhetoric), Julia Roma (History), Steven Yi (History), Nihil Shah (Mathematics)
Crisis Journal
Fall 2014
Graduate

Katrina C. L. Eichner
Anthropology
Queer Perspectives on Racialized Sexuality in 19th Century Fort Davis, Texas: Navigating Nervous Landscapes

Melina M. Packer
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
The Politics of Pop: Soda Tax Policies and Social Anxieties

Jennifer Tucker
Department of City and Regional Planning
On the frontiers of governance: Affect, race and illicit trade in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay

Charisse Burden-Stelly
African Diaspora Studies
What’s Left of African Diaspora Theory?: (Re)Turning to Political Economy and Articulating Culturalism to Economic Realities

Sarah Cowan
History of Art
Harlem Dwelling: Roy DeCarava's Fine Art Photographs, New York City, 1948-1996

Bianca Ayanna Suarez
Social and Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Education
Educational Ideas in the Movement Era: A Narrative History of the Politics of Race, Class and Knowledge in the Detroit Public Schools, 1954-1976

Jocyl Sacramento
Education
Critical Race Dialogue and Curriculum: Teacher Collaboration and the Implementation of Ethnic Studies in High School Classrooms

Kathryn Benjamin
African Diaspora Studies
The Impact of Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp In History and Memory

Munira Lokhandwala
Department of Film and Media
Afterimages of History: Encountering the Archive in Contemporary Global Film and Video
Undergraduate

Naphtalie Jeanty
Anthropology
Queerness is for White People: The Effects of the Idea of African American Sexual Deviancy among 19th Century Buffalo Soldiers

Jinoh Ryu
Gender and Women’s Studies & Interdisciplinary Studies
Transnational Feminist Approaches to the Identities and Experiences of Asian TCK Women at Cal
Spring 2014
Graduate

Ianna Hawkins Owen
African Diaspora Studies
Diasporan Recitations of Black Failure and Ethical Possibility

Mina Barahimi
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
Race, Returns, and the Politics of Immigration Control: A Study of the Role of Voluntary Departure in U.S. Immigration Enforcement

Tria Andrews
Ethnic Studies Department
Education on the Reservation: Extracurricular and Culturally-Relevant Programming
Undergraduate

Wendy Melissa Hernandez
American Studies
A Qualitative Study on the Intersection of Higher Education and Incarceration in African-American and Latino/a Households

Skye Niles
Gender and Women's Studies
Early U.S. Drug Policy as a Method of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Control

Ariana DeNevi Weckstein
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Conditions of Power in Community Health: Gender, Race, and Harm Reduction at the Berkeley Free Clinic
Fall 2013
Graduate

Louise Ly
Sociology
Racialized Intimacy: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender within Interracial Marital Relationships Among Asians Americans and Whites

Ilaria Giglioli
Geography
From Colonial Cosmopolitanism to Mediterraneanism. Shifting Socio-Spatial Borders between Italy and Tunisia

Hossein Ayazi
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Unsettling the Agrarian Imaginary: Race, Agrarianism, and the Domestic

Manuel R. Cuellar
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Los mecos de Veracruz: The Performance of Indigenous Kinesthetic Epistemologies
Undergraduate

Tali Gires
Interdisciplinary Studies
Gender and Cultural Sensitivity Surrounding Development Initiatives: Examining the Connection between Gender Relations and Ethnicity in the San Martin Region of Peru

Dee Mauricio
Ethnic Studies
Entendiendo Nuestros Pasados, Sexos y Generos: Testimonios y historias orales of Guatemalan Survivors during the Civil War and Genocide

Zully Juarez
Gender & Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies
From the Highlands to the City; Maya Women’s Ways of Healing in South Central Los Angeles
Spring 2013
Graduate

Natalie Mendoza
History
Mexican American Historical Thinking in the American Southwest in the Pre-Chicano Period

Kimberly McNair
African American Studies
Cotton Framed Revolutionaries: T-Shirt Culture and Black Power Iconography

Veena Dubal
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
The Last Cowboy: Freedom, Flexibility, and Myths of Legal Identity in the San Francisco Taxi Industry

Naomi Bragin
Performance Studies
Hip-Hop Dance Is Black Power: Kinesthetic Politics and Black Performance

Ina Marie Kelleher
Comparative Ethnic Studies
The Derrion Albert Beating: Visual Representations of Racialized Violence
Undergraduate

Hector Miguel Callejas
Ethnic Studies
Cultural Revitalization Efforts and Indigenous Rights in Nahuizalco, El Salvador

Alli Yates
Interdisciplinary Studies
Pure Bodies – Probiotics and the Re-culturing of Colonial Hygiene in the United States

Haebitchan Jung
English
Electronic Dance Mu$ic: The Theoretical Discourse on the Promulgation of Western Ideology in the Non-West

Steven Hanyun Cong
Ethnic Studies (Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies)
Expression Through the Small Screen: How Asian American Students in UC Berkeley Respond to Asian American Cultural Productions on YouTube
Fall 2012
Graduate

Caitlin Keliiaa
Ethnic Studies
Modes of Domesticity: The Intersections of Indian Domestic Service and WWII Politics in the San Francisco Bay Area

Connie Wun
Education
Where Violence and Discipline Intersect: School Discipline Policies, Prisons, Race & Gender

Christina S. Carbone
Jurisprudence & Social Policy
The Promise of Accountability: Countering Bias in Decision Making

Giuliana Perrone
History
Unfinished Freedom: Slavery and Citizenship in Post-Emancipation Southern Courts, 1865-1896

John J. Dougherty
Ethnic Studies
Appraisals of Competency: Race, Gender, and the Rhetoric of Federal Indian Law, 1945-1960

Michael McGee
African American Studies
The Practice of Freedom: Reconsidering Freedom in African American Literature
Undergraduate

Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza
History
Erasing Arizona: The Purging of Mexican-American Educational Rights

Mai Nhia Vang
Social Welfare
A Critical Look at Domestic Violence through the Lens of Elder Hmong Women
Spring 2012
Graduate

Reginold Royston
African American Studies
Trending Ghana: Homeland, Diaspora and Digital Nationalism

Ziza Delgado
Ethnic Studies
Third World Bodies vs. First World Ideologies: The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley, 1969

Sunny Xiang
Comparative Literature
Asia's Unreliability: Literary and Historical Positings of the Asian Human, 1945-Present

Ariko Ikehara
Ethnic Studies
Black-Okinawa: Mixed-Cultural Formation of African-Americans and Okinawans in Post-War Okinawa

Natalee Bauer
Education
(Re)Interpreting Pygmalion: Understanding the Disciplinary Race/Gender Gap in US Middle Schools
Undergraduate

Cameron McKee
History and History of Art
Visible Anxiety and the Dreyfus Affair: Exploring Jewishness and Homosexuality as Deviant Identities in fin-de siècle France
Fall 2011
Graduate

Emine Fidan Elcioglu
Sociology
The Struggle for Home and Belonging: The Politics of Immigration in Arizona

Brendan Shanahan
History
"Unalienable" Rights? Race, Gender and the Loss of American Citizenship Among US-Born Women, 1907-1931

Megan Adams
History
Public Servants, Public Employees, Public Enemies, Organizing the Chicago Police, 1952-1984

April Sizemore-Barber
Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies
Over the Rainbow? Constituting Queerness and Performing Nation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Undergraduate

Reginald James
Political Science & African American Studies
Resighted: Black Women Photographers of the Bay Area

Sarah Leadem
Ethnic Studies, Public Policy
The Changing Face of Labor: Immigrant Women, Domestic Work and Labor Unions in California in the 21st Century

Jazmin Ontiveros
Society & Environment; Geography; Ethnic Studies
Black and Brown in the Bay: Solidarity Through the Lens of Black-N-Brown Entertainment

Sophia Wang
Sociology, Political Science
Political and Civic Engagement of Chinese Americans in Ethnic Suburbs

Maia Wolins
Middle Eastern Studies; Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Narratives of the 2003 War: Iraqi Refugees and the US Veterans (the NOW Project)
Spring 2011
Graduate

Tria Andrews
Ethnic Studies
Rehabilitation for Native American Girls at a Facility Located on Tribal Grounds

Tadashi Dozono
Education
Converging Epistemologies: The Racialized and Gendered Knowledged Spaces of Test Preparation
Nilofar Gardezi
English
"There Was A Vividness Of Life, An Intensity Of Being...": Recovering 'The Lost Years' of the 1940s-1960s in African American Literature & Culture
Undergraduate

Melissa M. Barker
Interdisciplinary Studies
The Social Impact of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Single Mother Students Pursuing Higher Education

Lan Ngo
Environmental Sciences & South & Southeast Asian Studies
Vietnamese Low-Wage Worker-Needs Assessment

Nevin Rao
Environmental Econ and Policy
South-Asian Masculinity in the 21st Century: Exploring the Strategies Employed in Negotiating its Influence
Son Trung Chau
Ethnic Studies & American Studies
"AzNpRyDE": Pan-Asianism and Youth Culture in an Age of Cyberspace
Fall 2010
Graduate

Jade Sasser
Environmental Science
Empowering Women, Save the Planet? Mobilizing Science and Strategy for Population-Environment Advocacy.

Joshua Williams
Performance Studies
"I am the Masses of My People": Teatro Campesino's Mythic Latinidad, 1973-1976

Elaine Yau
History of Art
Painted Words: The Art, Speech, and Performance of Sister Gertrude Morgan in New Orleans 1960-1980
Undergraduate

Lauren Herman
Interdisciplinary Studies
Beyond the Market: The Rise of Microcredit Plus in Informal Sector Employment for Kenyan Women

Nisha Balaram
Sociology and Interdisciplinary Field Studies, with a focus on Migration Theory
Marginalization and the Media: Framing Immigration in a Post-9-11 Framework

Aaron Benavidez
Geography
The Rhetoric of Racialized Monumental Material Culture and the (Re)Production of Nation-State Identity in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
Spring 2010
Graduate

Kevin Escudero
Ethnic Studies
Overshadowed and Unafraid: Undocumented API Students & the Struggle for Higher Education
Abigail Andrews
Sociology
The Upshot of El Otro Lado: How Mixtec and Zopotec Migration Patterns Shape Gender, Community & the Tradeoffs of Neoliberalism
Undergraduate
Clarissa Arafiles
Anthroplogy, GWS
Gendered Reflections & Unmarked Identities in Gender and Women's Studies
Hector Gutierrez
Ethnic Studies
Beyond Machismo: Perceptions of Manhood & Masculinity in the Bay Area Day Labor Market
Fall 2009
Graduate
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern
Geography
Mexican Women's Contributions to California Agriculture: Agricultural Knowledge and Social Networks Across Borders
Jacqui Shine
History
A Most Extraordinary Noise: Race, Gender & Public Space in 19th Century New Orleans
Amy Shen
Sociology/Gender & Women's Studies
A Route of One's Own: Taiwanese Women's Mobility in Transnational Trajectories of Education
Lowry Martin
French
Creating Lesbos-sur-Seine: Fantasy, Desire & the (Re)imagining of Sappho and her Sisters during the French Third Republic
Undergraduate
Sandra Nakagawa
Sociology
A Look at Race and Femininity in Overcompensating Responses to Gender Identity Threats
Kurt Eulau
Sociology
Gateway Employment or Exploited Labor: Jornaleros & Social Mobility in the San Francisco Bay Area
Spring 2009
Graduate
Alejandra Dubcovsky
History
Slavery, 'Nuevas', and Power, the Stono Rebellion and Communication Exchange in the Colonial Southea
Gabriela Rico
Ethnic Studies
Performance and Performativity of Indigeneity in Mexico: P'urhepecha Spiritual/Cultural Performances in Michoacan