Mao-Mei Liu is a sociologist and social demographer. She seeks to understand the causes and consequences of international migration and the influence of families over the life cycle, and often takes a comparative multi-country approach to do so. She considers herself most fortunate to work as a quantitative social scientist who has participated - and continues to participate - in fieldwork.
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...
Dr. Satveer Kaur-Gill is a research assistent in Center for Culture-Centered Research and Evaluation [CARE], National University of Singapore, Singapore. She Lead three major research projects at the centre that involved both research and administrative duties titled “Foreign Domestic Workers and Health, Singapore Heart Health, and Singapore HINTS study”. Her teaching activity is Instructor/Module Coordinator in National University of Singapore, Chua Thian Poh Community Leadership Center & Communications and New Media Department.
Sociology, Demography, & Quantitative Research Librarian, UC Berkeley
Ann Glusker has recently joined the UC Berkeley Library’s Social Sciences Division as our Sociology, Demography, & Quantitative Research Librarian. Most recently she was the Research & Data Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest regional office of the National Library of Medicine, based at the University of Washington Health Sciences Library in Seattle. She’s also worked as a librarian at The Seattle Public Library, and at the medical library of Kaiser Permanente Washington. In addition, before changing careers to librarianship, she worked as an epidemiologist for the Seattle-King...
Albert Manke is a historian of Latin American and Global History, specializing in transpacific and inter-American entanglements and the history of the Cold War with a focus on Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, and California. He is particularly interested in migrant networks, exclusion and coping strategies, as well as in the agency-centered histories of resistance and social movements in the Americas. His first book, El Pueblo Cubano en Armas (2014, published in German) shows how different sectors of the Cuban society mobilized to defend the Cuban revolution of 1959 and significantly...
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...
Health Care Program Director @ UC Berkeley Labor Center
Laurel Lucia is director of the Health Care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she has worked since 2009. Her research focuses on health coverage and cost trends in California, and policies to improve access to and affordability of health care for California workers and their families. Recent publications have examined the impact of rising health care costs for workers in California, policies to improve access to health insurance for California immigrants, shifts in health coverage during COVID-19, and the health coverage and economic impacts in California had the Affordable...
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...
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...
