Student

Sarah Lee (she/her/hers) is a third year PhD candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley and is a spatial historian of rural California. She received her Bachelors in History from the University of California, Merced in 2020, where her research focused on the development of Merced’s first professional police department from 1870 to 1890 and its impact on local understandings of race, class, and space. Her dissertation expands on this, exploring the interconnected histories of police professionalization and racial segregation in California’s Central Valley from the late...

Luyi Jian is an incoming fourth year doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. Her research interests are in the juvenile and criminal legal systems and prevention and intervention of youth’s antisocial behavior. Her dissertation is situated in the juvenile justice system and focuses on how positive youth development can promote desistance from antisocial behavior. She explores the extent to which justice-involved youth develop a prosocial identity or sense of self, and tests the conditions under which prosocial identity can flourish and protect young...

Margot Lipin is a Ph.D. candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at Berkeley Law. Margot’s research lies at the intersection of legal history, policing, and culture. Her dissertation examines the role of fashion in the construction of racialized and gendered deviance in turn-of-the-century New York, investigating the process by which individuals were clothed with legal status according to their dress and appearance. Prior to Berkeley, she received her B.A. in History and Political Science from Wellesley College.

Matt Brundage recently earned his JD from Yale Law School and is now a PhD Candidate in political science at Berkeley. He studies public law and inequality. His research examines how local government law and election law shape socioeconomic and political inequality in America.