Assistant Researcher at the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health
Dr. Mora is a native of Costa Rica, she completed her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Costa Rica in 2005 and her PhD degree in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2014. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET) at the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica, and an Assistant Researcher at the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Her research focused primarily on the health effects of exposures...
Associate Director, Global, International and Area Studies Research Hub
Akasemi Newsome is the Associate Director of UC Berkeley’s Global, International and Area Studies research hub. She is also Associate Director at the Institute of European Studies. At the Institute, she is also Executive Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Executive Director of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in European Union Studies and Founding Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for French and Francophone Studies.
Akasemi Newsome’s research interests include global race, ethnicity and...
Librarian for East European, Central Asian, the Caribbean and Latin American Studies
As an immigrant librarian, I am interested in the issues surrounding immigration and adaptation to various social realities that exist in the contemporary North American society.
Her research interests focus on trauma – PTSD, complex PTSD, vicarious and secondary traumatization, post-traumatic growth, victims of torture and war; in addition to gender-based violence, e.g., sexual abuse and prostitution. She also is working on the mental health of Syrian refugees and the staff who assist them. Her most recent project delves into the physical and mental health of aid workers who assist traumatized populations (refugees, conflict, and natural disasters) in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. She utilizes the Family Systems approach in providing a...
Lecturer, Visiting Scholar, and Working Group Director
Carrie Rosenbaum is an experienced immigration law attorney, teacher and scholar. Her scholarship focuses on the constitutionality of immigration laws including equality principles and rule of law, the role of settler colonialism in shaping contemporary expressions of immigration law, and racial bias in crimmigration enforcement.
Her current affiliations include the Center for the Study of Law and Society and the Berkeley Law Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. She directs the Immigrant Justice & Climate Refugees Working Group.
Frank C. Newman Lecturer, School of Law & Visiting Research Scholar, Othering & Belonging Institute
Steve’s scholarship interests are in the intersection of disability and immigration status, international human rights, special education, clinical legal education, lay advocacy and childcare availability amongst Mexican indigenous farmworker families. His social justice courses at the law school focus on the acquisition of professional skills, including community legal education, policy advocacy and culturally competent lawyering. Steve, who currently serves as pro bono counsel with La Raza Centro Legal, has litigated a number of state and federal cases on behalf of undocumented...
Jasmijn Slootjes is an Associate Director with MPI Europe, primarily working on immigrant integration. Her research areas include migrant health, labor market integration, migrants’ access to services, integration policies, receiving-society responses to migration, and the use of innovative research methods to study migration.
Before joining MPI Europe, Dr. Slootjes was Executive Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In this role, she worked on geospatial inequality in migrants’ access to health, legal, and...
Research Fellow & Head of Office, German Historical Institute West
Andrea Westermann earned her PhD in history from Bielefeld University for her dissertation Plastik und politische Kultur in Westdeutschland. She is a research fellow of GHI Washington DC and head of the Pacific Regional Office of the GHI in Berkeley. She specializes in the history of earth sciences, environmental history, environmental migration, and the history of material culture. She is H-Soz-Kult editor for history of knowledge. Her latest article “A Technofossil of the Anthropocene: Sliding up and down Temporal Scales with Plastic” will soon appear in the edited volume Power and Time...
