Robin Marsh on International Scholarships and Social Change

ISSI Senior Researcher Robin Marsh was a panelist discussing her co-edited book: International Scholarships in Higher Education: Pathways to Social Change (Palgrave McMillan, 2017), sponsored by the Open Society Foundations in New York City on March 5th. A video of the book launch event is available here.  Panelists discuss the intersections of, and the emerging field of research into, international scholarships and social change.

New Book on Black Europe by Stephen Small, CRSC Faculty Affiliate

20 Questions and Answers on Black Europe (Amrit Publishers, 2018) is the latest book by Stephen Small, Professor of African American Studies at UCB and faculty affiliate of CRSC.  The book offers an in-depth analysis of Black Europe and the experiences of Black people in Europe, including questions about gender and demography; history and the legacies of slavery, colonialism and imperialism; the politics of racism; economics; the legal system, and more. He will be speaking about the book on Thursday, Feb 08, 2018  from 5:30 - 7:00 pm in the Ethnic Studies Library.

Bilingual and socio-emotional development in dual language learners

Congratulations to Qing Zhou, who is Associate Professor of Psychology, UCB, and an affiliate of ISSI’s Center for Research on Social Change, on her $3million grant from NIH. Zhou and fellow PI Yuuko Uchikoshi will be expanding their ground-breaking research on early childhood, focusing on bilingual children who grow up in Spanish-speaking and Cantonese-speaking families.