Leadership/Staff

Mary Boyd-Farrell

Purchasing and Administrative Coordinator
Institute of Governmental Studies

Originally from Western Pennsylvania, Mary Boyd-Farrell graduated from Cal Poly Humboldt with a BA in English and a single subject teaching credential in 2014. She worked as the Administrative Coordinator for the University Senate of Cal Poly Humboldt, and, most recently, as an Administrative Associate in the School of Medicine at Stanford University. In her leisure time Mary enjoys going to concerts and attending board game nights with her husband, as well as reading, watching films, and creating art.

G. Cristina Mora

IGS Co-Director, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology

G. Cristina Mora is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 2003 and earned her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 2009. Before returning to Cal, she was a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at the University of Chicago. Professor Mora’s research focuses mainly on questions of racial and ethnic categorization, organizations, and immigration. Her book, Making Hispanics, was published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press and provides a socio-historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” panethnic...

Ezra Hom-Bristow

Events and Communications Director
Institute of Governmental Studies

Ezra Hom-Bristow is the Events and Communications Director at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads digital communications, multimedia storytelling, and public programming that connect academic research with broader civic audiences. In this role, he manages the institute’s communications ecosystem across web, email, video, and social media, and produces live and hybrid events that bring together scholars, policymakers, students, and community leaders to engage in dialogue about the most pressing public...

Eric Schickler

IGS Co-Director, Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science
Charles and Louis Travers Department of Political Science

Eric Schickler is Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science and co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of seven books, including Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era (with Paul Pierson); Investigating the President: Congressional Checks on Presidential Power (2016, with Douglas Kriner) and Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965, winner of the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book on government, politics or...

CA Local Documents Digitization Project

Project Description

In the Summer of 2024, the IGS Library (IGSL) kicked off its multi-year California Local Government Documents digitization (LoCAL Dig) project.

IGSL in collaboration with the California State Library (CSL), UCLA Young Research Library (UCLA), and in partnership with the Internet Archive (IA), has launched the LoCAL Dig Project, a groundbreaking effort funded by the State of California. This multi-year effort aims to digitize over...

Paul King

Library Supervisor and PPIC Coordinator, LoCALDig Outreach and Promotion
Institute of Governmental Studies Library
IGS Library Local Government Digitization Project
Paul King is the Circulation Supervisor and PPIC Coordinator for the Institute of Governmental Studies Library. In addition, he serves as reference staff and a technical services professional. Paul studied political science at Evergreen College in Olympia, WA.

Kathryn Stine

Digitization Project Planner
Institute of Governmental Studies Library
IGS Library Local Government Digitization Project

Kathryn joins the Institute of Governmental Studies Library (IGSL) Team as the Digitization Project Planner. Kathryn will be responsible for and instrumental in developing the IGS Library's California local government documents digitization project plan, for which IGS received state funding to undertake.

Kathryn comes to IGSL with more than 15 years of experience managing library digitization and digital access initiatives, as well as archives and special collections processing and programs. She has extensive metadata and collection analysis skills, which are...

Jordan Gerner

Government Information Collection and Circulation Specialist, LoCALDig Digitization Operations Lead, Metadata and Copy Cataloging
Institute of Governmental Studies Library
IGS Library Local Government Digitization Project

Jordan Gerner is the Government Information Collection and Circulation Specialist at the IGS Library. Jordan manages circulation and processes and catalogs archival materials. He also assists with the Library's local government digitization project. Jordan has a BA in film studies from the Academy of Art in San Francisco.

Kris Kasianovitz

Library Director, LoCALDig Project Sponsor and Project Curator
Institute of Governmental Studies Library
IGS Library Local Government Digitization Project

Kris comes to IGS from the Stanford University Libraries where she was the Government Information Librarian for State, Local and International Documents and managed the Social Sciences Resources Group from 2017-2021. Prior to Stanford, Kris was the State and Local Government Information and Non-governmental Information Librarian at UCLA’s Young Research Library from 2001-2011. She received her M.S.L.I.S. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2002, and was the recipient of the...