Student

George Lambeth

JSD Candidate
Law

George Lambeth is a JSD candidate from the Law School. His work stands at the intersection of law, political economy, financial regulation, comparative law in developing countries, and institutional change. His dissertation deals with the relationship between the development of financial systems in Latin America and their institutional framework over the last hundred years. Traditionally, the comparative legal analysis of finance is frequently dissociated with its institutional origin. In contrast, the research shows that a meaningful comparative account of legal change needs to consider...

Lauren Chambers

Lauren Chambers is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information where she studies the intersection of data, technology, and sociopolitical advocacy with Prof. Deirdre Mulligan. Previously Lauren was the staff technologist at the ACLU of Massachusetts where she explored government data in order to inform citizens and lawmakers about the effects of legislation and political leadership on civil liberties. Lauren received her Bachelor's degree from Yale in 2017 where she double-majored in astrophysics and African American studies, and she spent two...

Sarah Lee

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...

Maura Liévano

PhD Candidate
Goldman School of Public Policy

Luyi Jian

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...

Dhurata Osmani

PhD Candidate
Sociology

Dhurata Osmani is a third year Sociology PhD student whose research interests lie within political sociology, the sociology of emotions, and conflict. Dhurata has previously conducted research on the role of emotions in Kosovo, focusing on how gendered constructions of nationalism and liberal feminism shaped the post-conflict climate. Currently, Dhurata is interested in interrogating how the American post-war state sought to control emotions to attain its hegemonic status.

Joohyun Park

BELS Fellow

Joohyun Park is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests are gender, law, medicine, and social movements. Her dissertation project examines how the victim identity is constructed and contested within the legal and medical arenas that address sexual violence in South Korea.

Peyton Provenzano

PhD Candidate
Jurisprudence and Social Policy

Peyton Provenzano is a second-year JD student and fourth-year PhD student in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law. Her legal focus is on 4th Amendment Jurisprudence, with an emphasis on the police use of force. Peyton's work is situated at the disciplinary intersections of Law & Society, Critical Criminology, and Critical Race Theory. Peyton's current research and policy advocacy is centered on community-based alternatives to the police for psychiatric emergencies, intimate-partner violence, and community-level violence.

Adriana P. Ramirez

Adriana P. Ramirez is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration, citizenship, Latin America, political sociology, race and ethnicity, and youth. The influence of growing up as a migrant student between Mexico and the U.S. and being the daughter of farmworkers is seen in her work that explores transnational migration dynamics. Her current work explores what happens when young migrants leave the U.S. to “return” to their sending communities, and the impact of migration on...

Diana Reddy

PhD Candidate
Jurisprudence and Social Policy

Diana Reddy is a lawyer and Doctoral Student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on questions at the intersection of work law, law and political economy, law and social movements, and social stratification and inequality. Diana's scholarship has been featured in the Yale Law Journal Forum, the Emory Law Journal, and other outlets.

Diana received her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. She has an MA in Sociology and a BA in...