Synar Graduate Fellowship

I am a PhD candidate in the Travers Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Before coming to Berkeley, I graduated with a BA in political science and sociolegal studies from the University of Washington and earned a MSc in politics research at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College). I study race and ethnic politics, political psychology, and political behavior. My dissertation focuses on the politics of white racial identity in the US.

Anna's Research: Over the past decade, white Democrats have become remarkably more liberal on race-related issues. What explains this...

Ángel is a PhD candidate in sociology at UC Berkeley who conducts research at the intersection of (sub)urban sociology, race and inequality, policing, incarceration, and housing. Their dissertation investigates a contemporary and understudied driver of segregation in the metropolitan United States: prison proliferation. His previous research on racial and renter threat in California suburbs received the Graduate Student Paper Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association and was recently published in Social Problems. Ángel’s work has...

Thesis: Facing Extinction in California’s Delta: Endangered Species Law, Water Policy and the Politics of Science in Uncertain Time

Mary Shi is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Mary's research examines the intersection of society, space, and politics in multiple domains, from the political economy of the San Francisco Bay Area to the historical formation of the American state. Mary received her BA from Yale University in Political Science and Molecular Biochemistry & Biophysics. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley, and has appeared in ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies.

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