Race and ethnicity | Expert Topics

Adrian Aguilera

Associate professor of social welfare

Mental health, psychiatric disorders, telehealth, mobile mental health services, healthcare for underserved populations, Spanish-speaking services

Linda Burton

Dean of the School of Social Welfare

lburton@berkeley.edu

Poverty and child welfare in rural and urban U.S., welfare reform, intergenerational family structures, social determinants of health, ethnography

Catherine Ceniza Choy

Professor of Ethnic Studies

ceniza@berkeley.edu

U.S. global presence in Asian countries, Asian migrations to the United States, impact of trans-Pacific migration on American and Asian societies, Asian stereotypes, Filipino history, Filipinos in U.S. nursing.

Lisa García Bedolla

UC Berkeley's vice provost for graduate studies, dean of the Graduate Division, professor of education

Areas of expertise: Elections, race and politics in the U.S., Latinx politics and community issues/organizing
Spanish-speaking

Jack Glaser

Professor

Areas of expertise: Social psychology; criminal justice, including police "implicit bias" and police reform; political psychology; stereotyping; prejudice and discrimination. Author of "Suspect Race: Causes & Consequences of Racial Profiling" (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Philip Kan Gotanda

Professor of theater, dance and performance studies

joeozu@berkeley.edu

Theater, playwriting, Asian American, Japanese American, cross-cultural, indie film

Ian Haney Lopez

Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute For A Fair And Inclusive Society Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor Of Public Law Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law

race and constitutional law, civil rights, 'dog-whistle' politics, communication

Samuel Lucas

Professor of sociology

lucas@berkeley.edu

Expertise: sociology of education, testing, statistical analysis, racial inequality, alternatives to securing racial diversity and their limitations.

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton

Professor of psychology

rmd@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Cross-race relations, stigma, prejudice, education.

Stephen Menendian

Assistant director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

steve.menendian@gmail.com

Expertise: Diversity and inclusion, immigration, civil rights, LGBT issues, race relations.

G. Cristina Mora

Associate professor of sociology, co-director of the Institute of Governmental Studies

cmora@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: Politics, politics and race, immigration, Latino migration
Spanish-speaking

Savala Nolan

Executive director of Berkeley Law's Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Social justice issues, including implicit bias, structural racism, understanding whiteness and the importance of social justice work for all lawyers

Michael Omi

Associate professor of ethnic studies

Expertise: ethnic diversification of California, census and the multiracial population, the undercount, impact of the census on federal money in the states, construction of racial categories.

john a. powell

Professor of Law and of African American Studies, Director of Othering and Belonging Institute

japowell@law.berkeley.edu

Civil rights, racism, poverty, inequality, democracy.

Michael Reich

professor of economics and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE).

mreich@econ.berkeley.edu

Director of IRLE from 2004-2015. Research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality; historical stages in U.S. labor markets; high performance workplaces; union-management cooperation; and living wages and minimum wages.

Russell Robinson

Professor of law, faculty director, Center on Race, Sexuality and Culture

robinson@law.berkeley.edu

Expertise: Discrimination law, race, gender, LGBT legal issues, sexuality and culture.

Tina Sacks

Assistant professor of social welfare

Racial inequities in health care, social determinants of health, race, class and gender and poverty and inequality.

Jeremy Adam Smith

Editor, Greater Good Science Center

jeremysmith@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Parenting, education, cross-race relations, segregation.

Ula Taylor

Professor and chair of African American Studies

uyt@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Black nationalism, civil rights movement, Black Panther Party, black feminist theory.

Brandi Wilkins Catanese

Professor of African American Studies, associate professor of Theater, Dance and Performance Studiees

catanese

Expertise: African American theater, political theater, popular culture, race, gender.

Frank C. Worrell

Professor in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: academic talent development/gifted education, at-risk youth, cultural identities, achievement, race and schools, diversity, teacher effectiveness, African-American education.