Dr. Bazian leads the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. He works on Islamophobia, Muslim Ban and anti-immigrant policies in US and Europe directed at the Global South and its links to military industrial complex and the neoliberal economic order.
Katerina Linos is I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law. Linos’ research and teaching interests include international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law and health care law. Her research examines why law reforms and policy innovations spread around the world in waves. She is currently studying the refugee crisis in Europe.
John Lie (pronounced "Lee") is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.Lie's main scholarly interest is social theory. After working on a reconceptualization of "markets," he sought to rethink the categories of modern peoplehood - race, ethnicity, and nation - which was published as Modern Peoplehood (2004). His longstanding interest in the environment has led him to write a book on sustainability - Japan, the Sustainable Society (2021) - and another on our inattention to and inaction on the impending natural catastrophe (The Global Environmental...
Gerardo Rodriguez-Solis is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, affiliated with the Division of Society and Environment at UC Berkeley. Gerardo holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, an M.A. in social anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán, and a B.A. in sociology from the Universidad de Guadalajara. Gerardo's research experiences focus on labor migration, agrarian capitalism, anti-indigenous racism, and state formation, with a specialization in the study of interlocking violence of plantation and bordering regimes to control human labor mobility and...
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...
Dr. Bazian leads the Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project at UC Berkeley's Center for Race and Gender. He works on Islamophobia, Muslim Ban and anti-immigrant policies in US and Europe directed at the Global South and its links to military industrial complex and the neoliberal economic order.
Director of Community-Engaged Academic Initiatives
Dr. Anibel Ferus-Comelo draws upon nearly 25 years of community-engaged research and teaching in her joint appointment at the Labor Center and the Goldman School of Public Policy. She directs the Labor Studies program at UC Berkeley through courses, internships, and collaborative research initiatives. Her research interests focus on labor standards and corporate social responsibility, gender, migration, the political economy of India, and the governance of global supply chains. She has supported the rights of low-wage, migrant workers in the US, the UK, and India within unions and...
Director of Health Initiative of the Americas, at the School of Public Health
Xóchitl Castañeda was the Director of Health Initiative of the Americas, at the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, since 2001 until 2020. A medical anthropologist by training, Xóchitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. She did a post-doctoral fellowship in reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco. She also received training in social science and medicine at Harvard University and at Amsterdam University.
For over seven years, she was a Professor of Public Health Sciences and a P.I. Researcher at Mexico’s National Institute of...
Program Director, Othering & Belonging Institute, at UC Berkeley
Elsadig Elsheikh is the Global Justice Program Director at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Elsadig's research focuses on the themes and socio-political dynamics related to state and citizenship; race and corporate power; and structures of exclusion and inclusion.
Lecturer in Chicana/o Studies and Ethnic Studies Department
I am a first-generation Chicano scholar-activist/anthropologist who studies the political and cultural resonance of social movements. In particular, the resonance of indigenous social movements on Chicanas/os and “people of color” in the United States.
I teach courses on Chicanx history, culture, ethnography, migration, and criminality. I am the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at UC Berkeley 2022. I am also the director of the Ethnic Studies Changemaker project. (ssbc.berkeley.edu)
My teaching experience is extensive. I have taught introductory classes in...
