Social movements
UC Berkeley is a hub for social movement scholarship, where experts analyze how grassroots activism transforms into lasting societal change. From historic civil rights milestones to contemporary global protests, these scholars provide the essential research needed to understand the forces reshaping our world.
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Continuing lecturer in ethnic studies
Mexican immigration, Chicanx/transborder social movements and activism. CalMatters, UC Berkeley News. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Continuing lecturer of journalism
U.S. history of government repression, censorship and deportations in response to WWI-era social movements. UC Berkeley News, The Washington Post, Salon
Professor of arts and humanities; chair of history of art
How art movements and social movements overlap, focusing on intercultural citizenship and the role of the arts in public life.
Professor of history
Civil Rights movement, Black Panther history. C-SPAN
Professor of anthropology; Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies
Social movements related to disability and LGBTQ rights; AI and vulnerable populations. UC Berkeley News, CNN. Speaker of Japanese and English.
Associate professor of public policy
Immigration policy, enforcement, arrests and detention; sanctuary, DACA, undocumented immigrants, mixed-status families; immigrants’ rights protests and activism. Los Angeles Times, The Marshall Project / Univision Noticias, Huffington Post, KALW-FM. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Professor of law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies; director of the Othering and Belonging Institute
Civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty and democracy. UC Berkeley News, The New Yorker
Founder, chair and lead researcher at the Center for Right-Wing Studies; editor-in-chief of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies
Populism and nationalism in the U.S. and Europe, fascism, authoritarianism, the far right. UC Berkeley News, Journal of Right-Wing Studies
Professor of sociology
Immigrant rights movements, U.S. labor movement, civil rights. UC Berkeley News
Assistant professor of political science
Protest movements, nonviolence, civil rights, Black politics. New York Times; KQED; Wall Street Journal
