Racial justice and policing | Expert Topics

Amani Allen

Executive Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology

Racial and socioeconomic health disparities, racism as a social determinant of health

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.

Keith Feldman

Professor of Ethnic Studies

kpfeldman@berkeley.edu

Areas of research and expertise in racial justice, carceral studies, militarism, social media, and technology.

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).

Dr. Rohini Haar

Research Fellow at Berkeley Law's Human Rights Center, lecturer at School of Public Health, emergency room doctor

rohinihaar@berkeley.edu

Crowd-control weapons (such as tear gas, rubber bullets) and their effects on physical and mental health, violations of free speech and assembly, protection of health workers and health services.

Denise Herd

Associate Professor of Public Health, Associate Director of Othering and Belonging Institute

Research centers on racialized disparities in health outcomes, spanning topics as varied as images of drugs and violence in rap music, police violence, drinking and drug use patterns, social movements, and the impact of corporate targeting and marketing on popular culture among African American youth.

Saru Jayaraman

Director, Food Labor Research Center

restaurant workers, inequality, working poor

Nikki Jones

Professor of African American Studies

Her areas of expertise include urban ethnography, urban sociology, race and ethnic relations and criminology and criminal justice, with a special emphasis on the intersection of race, gender, and justice.

Erin Kerrison

Assistant Professor of Social Welfare

Behavioral health and prevention/intervention, community, organizational and policy development, health and healthcare disparities, race/class/gender, criminal justice organization and policy, legal consciousness among underserved community members, legal epidemiology, and privatization of healthcare and supervision in underserved communities

Michael Mark Cohen

Associate Professor of African American Studies and African Diaspora Studies

Expert in cultural and political history of the United States from the Civil War to the present. Teaching Areas: US Cultural History from the Civil War to the Present; Work and Labor History; World War II; Race, class and American popular culture; Cultural Studies and Marxist Theory; Drugs and Alcohol in US History

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

Osagie Obasogie

Professor of Bioethics

obasogie@berkeley.edu

Race and law, bioethics, reproductive and genetic technologies

Michael Omi

Associate Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

omi@berkeley.edu

Racial formations in the United States, social and historical forces of race, xenophobia, activism

Kurt Organista

Professor of Social Welfare

drkco@berkeley.edu

Health and healthcare disparities in the Latinx community, HIV prevention, behavioral and mental health

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.

Jonathan Simon

Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law

Areas of expertise: criminal law, sociology of law. Author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass" (University of Chicago 1993); "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear" (Oxford University Press 2007); and "Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America" (New Press 2014).