Visiting Scholar Profile: Victor Pineda on Disability Rights, Urban Planning, and Inclusive Cities

Victor Pineda is a Senior Research Fellow and visiting scholar at the Haas Institute who is working to expand on the scholarship and research of the Haas Institute Disability Studies Cluster . We recently spoke with him about living with a disability...

Researcher Nadia Barhoum interviews Rabih Alameddine

Haas Institute researcher Nadia Barhoum interviewed Lebanese-American painter and award winning writer Rabih Alameddine. Alameddine has authored four novels and a collection of short stories. Listen to the audio of their discussion here. Transcript:...

Acclaimed Professor and Disability Studies Expert to Join Berkeley Faculty as Endowed Chair of Equity and Inclusion

For Karen Nakamura, leaving her esteemed position at Yale University was no easy decision. In the end, though, Nakamura, a Professor of Anthropology and East Asian Studies, believed that the offer of a new appointment at UC Berkeley “was literally a...

Haas Institute's Newest Faculty Cluster Member: Economic Anthropologist Jovan Scott Lewis

From an early age, Jovan Scott Lewis had his feet firmly planted in two very different worlds: Montego Bay, Jamaica and Lauderhill, Florida, the latter of which is well-known for its high population of Jamaicans. “I was aware that I was a part of...

Faculty profile: Jason Corburn on Why Public Health is Important for Equity and Opportunity

Jason Corburn is an Associate Professor of Public Health and City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and the new director of the UC Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD).

Transcending Borders Through Music; An Interview with Alsarah from the Nile Project

A group of artists and musicians from seven Nile Basin countries transformed the renowned Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus into a joyous space celebrating solidarity and compassion in February 2015 by performing original arrangements of...

Faculty profile: Law professor Jonathan Simon on 'Othering' through Mass Incarceration

Jonathan Simon is a professor at the Berkeley Law School and a member of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Democracy research cluster. His scholarship focuses on the role of crime and criminal justice in governing modern societies. He recently...

Faculty Profile: Seth Holmes Discusses Migrant Workers, the US agricultural system, and Structural Inequality Exacerbated "through metaphors of ethnic difference"

Seth M. Holmes is a professor in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology and a member of the Haas Institute Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster . Holmes is the author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies...

Faculty Profile: Juana María Rodríguez on sexuality in public discourse

Juana María Rodríguez is a member of the Haas Institute's LGBTQ Citizenship cluster and a professor of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Here, she discusses the "politics of respectability" in the gay marriage movement...

Michael Omi and Howard Winant Radically Revise "Racial Formation in the United States" book

UC Berkeley Ethnic S tudies professor Michael Omi is perhaps best known for his treatise on race in America, first published in 1986 with co-author Howard Winant, a professor of sociolo gy at UC Santa Barbara. A third edition of Racial Formation in...

Haas Diversity Research Center: Janelle Scott Investigates Educational Disparities

September 2010 Janelle Scott was teaching at New York University two years ago when she saw an announcement for her dream job, a post at UC Berkeley devoted to educational disparities. “It was one of the rare times when you see a job listing that...

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Transformative Research Toolkit

Introduction We have seen and participated in transformative research strategies that defeated proposed jail expansions, won millions of dollars for community-prioritized programs, and built new community-led organizations that changed a political...
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Depolarization Day

Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...

Book Talk: Before Gentrification, with Tanya Golash-Boza

Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza's book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap explores how redlining, incarceration, anti-blackness, and gentrification have resulted in DC becoming an extremely unequal city. She presented her book...