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Isabella Cantu was featured in a CalMatters article discussing Latino representation in higher education.

The article, "I don’t want them investigating shit and taking my kids”: Controlling Images and Chicanas’ Decarceral Motherwork in Police Encounters" analyses the idealogical discourses that shape Latina mothers’ carceral encounters and the maternal strategies they employ to protect their children from carceral state intervention and violence.

The first cross-disciplinary and in-depth account of critical ocean studies, the Routledge Handbook of Critical Ocean Studies brings together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and other ways of knowing to identify key insights from the diverse and dynamic field of critical ocean studies.

The article, "Shaping research in marine functional connectivity for integrated and effective marine science and management" clarifies definitions and subcategories of connectivity, and proposes a unified conceptual framework for Marine Functional Connectivity (MFC) research to support multidisciplinary marine science for improved management and policy.

The study, "Navigating Ethnic Identity at a Time of Crisis: A mixed-methods study of Jewish identity in California after October 7, 2023" captures the social psychological challenges and changes that took place within the Jewish American community during this tumultuous time.

Evan Baughman received an award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport's (NASSS) Eli Wolff Memorial Fund for Disability Sport.

Yao Lu received the 2025-2026 Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for her dissertation titled, "Enumerating Race and Ethnicity: Statecraft, Violence, and Belonging in Post-Colonial Zambia and Zimbabwe."

Patrick Wade recently co-authored a policy report with researchers from across the UC System on the current state of organized labor in California.

Professor Ming-Cheng Lo has been writing about the potential of and threats to democracy in Taiwan in a series of op eds for the Taipei Times.