Nadia Almasalkhi
Nadia Almasalkhi joined the department in 2018 after graduating from the University of Kentucky with degrees in International Studies, Arabic & Islamic Studies, and French.
Her MA project is underway, and investigates the political socialization processes experienced by Syrians, and the current political outlook and behavior of Syrians in U.S. She is currently recruiting Syrian immigrant...
Isabel García Valdivia
Isabel García Valdivia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. She received her B.A. in Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Sociology from Pomona College. Her main research interests include immigration, Latinx sociology, family, race and ethnicity, and sociology of aging and life course.
Isabel’s work has been funded by the National...
Tyler Leeds
Lawrence Liu
Meghna Mukherjee
Meghna Mukherjee graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Sociology (honors) and Human Rights. As a PhD student (Regents’ Fellow) at UC Berkeley, Meghna main research interests revolve around the social inequalities arising alongside emerging fertility and genetic technologies. She is particularly interested in understanding how medicalized spaces are reinforcing social hierarchies and reconstituting...
Navya Pothamsetty
Adriana Ramirez
Zabdi Salazar
Zabdi Salazar is a second-year student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy PhD program at UC Berkeley. In 2019, she graduated from Trinity University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Business Administration with minors in Spanish and Economics. Her research interests include refugee law, immigration law, sociology of law, public law,...
Dvir Yogev
Dvir Yogev is a Ph.D. student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley. He also holds an LL.B and an LL.M from Berkeley Law. His research interests include public opinion, punishment & psychology, and the politics of criminal justice reform.