Welcome to Global, International & Area Studies

Global, International & Area Studies (GIAS) is the leading research and outreach hub for international and area studies on the UC Berkeley campus. It is home to the Institute of International Studies (IIS) and the Area Studies cluster combined of the Institute of Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES), the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS), the Center for African Studies (CAS), the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Institute of European Studies (IES), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the Canadian Studies Program.

Recent GIAS grant recipients

Pol Fité Matamoros

Pol Fité Matamoros

Architect and urbanist Pol Fité Matamoros interrogates the geographic and historical understandings linking the rise of Spanish fascism to the country's North African colonies.

C. Darius Gordon

C. Darius Gordon

C. Darius Gordon looks at the history of solidarity between 20th-century Black activist-intellectuals across the Lusophone world, from Brazil to West Africa.