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 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.
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...
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...
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...
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...