March 2008 Newsletter Contents

1. From the Director (Renate Holub)

Hello students and friends of the ISF community!

We are a good month into the Spring Semester. I hope you all had a fabulous start and have settled into the courses of your choice. I understand that quite a few students are taking Laura Nader's course on Control and Processes, and since I frequently hear so many exciting comments about this course read more ..

2. ISF Advice (Dawn Strough)

Are you a graduating senior trying to come up with an answer to that nagging question "So, what will I be doing after college?" Although the semester isn't even half over, it's not too early to start the job search process. read more ...

3. Opportunities & Events

• Opportunities
  

  1. Summer Travel Study Course in Switzerland: In its 5th year, this unique 4 week summer course represents a great opportunity for any student to travel to Europe, live in France and Switzerland, meet with diplomats and international civil servants, and learn about the work of a broad array of international organizations
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• Events
  

  Tuesday, March 4: IS CORN KING?: Where does food come from? ITVS Community Cinema Presents "King Corn," a documentary that follows two recent college graduates who embark on a mission to see where America's food comes from - by growing it. read more ...

4. Student Research

• Michelangelo Trujillo: Michelangelo Trujillo is an ISF major in his final semester. Trujillo's degree has focused on the role of social science in creating social change attempting to bridge the gap between academic theory and scientific knowledge and how that knowledge can be practically applied to address contemporary social and political problems. read more ...


• Ian Mountjoy: Ian Mountjoy is an ISF major and rhetoric minor in his last semester at Cal. His general research interests include productions and intersections of gender, race, and poverty as they pertain to issues of global Southern to Northern migration, labor, and access to healthcare in marginalized communities. read more...

5. Senior Thesis and Faculty Profiles

• Eryn Bizar: Eryn Bizar is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in ISF with a concentration on child development and education. For her senior honors thesis, Eryn is examining the pedagogical approaches of Montessori education, read more ...


• Prof. Richard D. McCallum: Since 1995, Richard McCallum has been a faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. During this time he has held several appointments including Research Specialist, and Academic Coordinator. read more ..

6. Alumn Profiles

• Nathaniel Rice: Nathaniel grew up in Santa Cruz, CA. He loves to travel and has lived in France, India, Nepal, Thailand, and Malaysia. He started college on the East Coast and also lived in New York City for a year before transferring to UC Berkeley. read more ...


• Monica Hidalgo: Monica grew up in San Diego, CA. She began her undergraduate education at UC Berkeley in Fall 2003. Her Senior Honors Thesis, entitled "The Veil of Hushed Desires: Silencing the Sexual Body," explored the dialectics of desire in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales read more ...