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ISF Student Association is recruiting!

Interested in getting involved for Spring 2026? Don’t miss this opportunity to be involved in the official student club for ISF, creating and fostering this special program’s community! Student leadership can have roles in: Event planning e.g. study groups, going to campus events together, socials Social media management: ISF has a pre-existing Instagram and a Slack channel) Networking with campus faculty, other students, alumni Professional development utilizing these skills and navigating campus resources as an RSO (Registered Student Organization) Interested students should send their name, EGT, # of enrolled terms,

Student Publications

2025 Jalene Chok, “Divided, We Stand in Agreement: The Obstructive Role of National Identity in Contemporary Taiwanese Society.” Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5070/B3.50656 Rohith Moolakatt, “Paths toward Sustainable Development in the 21st Century: A Comparative Analysis of “Exceptionalist” Development Models in Costa Rica and Kerala, India.” Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5070/B3.50660  

Prof. Shreeharsh Kelkar: Who Are the Data Scientists?: Evidence from the Field of Education Data Mining

ISF Professor Shreeharsh Kelkar is giving a talk titled “Who Are the Data Scientists?: Evidence from the Field of Education Data Mining” at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society on November 14th. Please find the event and talk information below. Title: Who Are the Data Scientists?: Evidence from the Field of Education Data Mining Date/Time: Thursday, 14 Nov 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Location: 470 Stephens Hall Speaker: Shreeharsh Kelkar, Continuing Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Abstract: The critical social science research on the emergence of “data scientists” is composed

DeCals

The DeCal Program (or just DeCal) is an aggregate of faculty-sponsored, student-led courses at the University of California, Berkeley. Students have the opportunity to create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of subjects, many of which are not addressed in the traditional curriculum. These courses are offered on a Pass/No Pass grading basis and are offered as ISF 98/198.  Students interested in teaching a DeCal course under the ISF (Interdisciplinary Studied Field) subject area must meet the following requirements:  Student must be a currently declared ISF major.  DeCal

Chenxi Tang

Professor Tang studied comparative literature, German literature, and philosophy at Fudan University Shanghai, Peking University, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, and Columbia University (PhD 2000). He taught at the University of Chicago before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2007. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship, and Research Fellowship of Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies. In the early phase of his research career, Tang was interested in the roles played by German literature and thought in the self-understanding and self-positioning of Europe

ISF Student Club

Interdisciplinary Studies Field Association The purpose of ISFA is to create a space for students within the Interdisciplinary Studies Field major to network, share ideas, and socialize. ISFC will host events and provide resources that foster the development of students’ research interests and ultimately their research proposals. Connect with the ISFA! Interested in getting involved for Spring 2026? Student leadership can have roles in event planning (think: study groups, going to campus events together, socials), social media management (ISF has an instagram and a Slack channel), & networking and professional

Yagmur Coskun

Title of the thesis: “A Home That Does Not Halo Our Head with a Special Sun”: Migration, Racism, and Capital Crisis in Turkey. Findings: The case of the Syrian diaspora in Turkey unsettles the welcoming liberal – nativist conservative binary as well as the poverty-induced racism thesis that are prevalent in migration scholarship. The conservative Turkish government’s migration policy followed a deeply contradictory and crooked path along the years, reflecting the changing dynamics of capitalist expansion and the ensuing colonial desires that were ultimately truncated. The economic and political sea change

Visual Culture

Field Description The ISF Research Field on Visual Culture incorporates the breadth, depth and complexity of visuality in shaping aesthetics and culture, and also society and politics, in history and today. It presents a broad array of visual objects (from painting to cinema, but also the built environment) encompassing the field of art history and the humanities, and extending to disciplines throughout the social sciences, from geography to anthropology.  By “visual culture”, we study at once the visual display of information in all disciplines and especially visual modes of constituting

Science, Technology and Society

Field Description UC Berkeley offers a rich and diverse set of undergraduate courses across campus to pursue the multiple intersections of science, technology and society (STS). The ISF Research Field in STS is the only place at Berkeley where undergraduates can pursue a research program in this subject.  Students in this field study not only the social preconditions for scientific investigation but also the social consequences of scientific and technological developments and the ways in which these processes are themselves shaped by society. STS is premised on a specific demarcation