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The ISF major involves interdisciplinary research into social issues or social problems or humanities topics.
Michelle Herrera

Student Academic Advising

The Student Academic Advisor’s job is to guide students and faculty as they navigate University, College, and Major Program policies. 

Spotlight on ISF Graduates

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Grace Hwang

Since graduating in May 2012, Grace has been a part of the IT Strategic Services/CIO Chief of Staff Office team at Kaiser Permanente as a Business Analyst. Grace plays a key role in assisting the team deliver on top priority

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Rosa Hernandez

Rosa Hernandez graduated in Spring 2015. She double majored in ISF and Rhetoric. Rosas passion for worker justice led to her thesis on transnational workers rights movements across the NAFTA countries and Brazil. During her time at Cal she was

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Nikkil Sudharsanan

After graduating in 2010, Nikkil enrolled in a Master’s of Public Health program at Emory University. While at Emory, he worked on two main projects; the first examined chronic disease and migration in urban India, and the second examined the

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Sagar Vora

Since graduating the ISF program in May 2014, Sagar’s been working as a Investment Banking Analyst at the Australian Investment Bank, Macquarie Capital in New York City (part of the larger Macquarie Group Limited). He currently focuses on assisting companies

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Ryan Swanson

Ryan initially chose Interdisciplinary Studies because “its rare combination of creativity and rigor allowed [him] to study abroad for a year in Beijing while also pursuing [his] research interests in climate change and energy policy.” His senior thesis, titled The

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Reece Soltani

Reece remains primarily interested in the cross between technology and education, and a believer in the market as a stable route toward economic progress. Reece recently joined a Silicon Valley Start-up in its first year of establishment as the Vice

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Philine Endres

Philine graduated in Spring 2018, receiving the ISF departmental citation award. Her senior thesis, Primary Care Deserts: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Primary Care Physician Shortages in California, explores the relationship between primary care practitioner supply and health outcomes in

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Jason Budge

In the Fall of 2016 Jason Budge wil begin graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the PhD program in Sociology. He plans on focusing on the Department’s famous “Class Analysis and Historical Change” field of study, with

Course Threads

The Interdisciplinary Studies Program is proud to host Berkeley Course Threads, developed by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, that give students the chance to connect their courses thematically to earn a certificate in interdisciplinary studies.

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