Student

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...

Michaeljit Sandhu

M. Sandhu is a PhD student in Sociology. They study the relationship between property, democracy, and power.

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...

Rebekah Jones

Rebekah Jones is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Political Science. Her current research agenda investigates the development and consequences of local crime policy in the U.S. Her dissertation project examines how cities embedded in the federated structure of the American political economy prioritize and devise their crime policy agendas to respond to our nation's high levels of lethal violence. More broadly, she is interested in how the economic incentives of political elites interact with local political institutions...

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...

Sarah Lee

Sarah Lee is a PhD candidate in History at the University of California, Berkeley, studying modern America with a focus on spatial and carceral California history. Her dissertation, "To Control the Law of Fresno: Police, Race, and Space in California’s Central Valley," examines how police professionalization and segregation developed in rural California in the 20th century through a case study of her hometown, Fresno, California.