The Dept. of Sociology will host commencement on Monday, May 13, 2024 at 9am in Zellerbach Hall. Commencement Speaker, Harry Edwards.
News & Events
Congratulations to Xavier Durham for being selected as one of the 2022-2023 Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Graduate Fellows!
Congratulations to Professor Chris Muller for winning the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award from the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association!
The Wilson award is awarded annually to recognize a scholar who has made major contributions early in their career.
Congratulations to Irem Inal, Joohyun Park, Ángel Ross, and Allen Michael Wright for being named Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies Graduate Fellows!
Congratulations to Adriana Ramirez for winning the 2022 Center for the Study of Law and Society Graduate Student Paper Prize!
Congratulations to Elena Amaya for winning a 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Elena was also named a 2022 Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Fellow and has recently received the Pre-Dissertation Research Grant in International Studies from the Berkeley Institute of International Studies. Congratulations, Elena!
Congratulations to Dhurata Osmani for winning a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Kosovo!
Stephanie Rodriguez Gomez received the Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Recognition Award for Service to Undocumented Students
Berkeley Sociology is ranked #1 Sociology graduate program in the 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Mara Loveman is the winner of the 2022 Faculty Mentor Award!
Berkeley PhD candidate Kimberly Burke is a Grad Slam semifinalist! The UC Berkeley competition will take place on April 11, 2022, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. via Zoom. The event is open to the entire Berkeley community.
Martin Eiermann has accepted a 3-year postdoc at Duke University.
Cristina Mora receives 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity.
Alicia Sheares has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position from Stanford University’s Management Science and Engineering Department
Daniel Aldana Cohen's collaboration with activist Ilona Duverge in developing the Green New Deal for Public Housing discussed in https://gizmodo.com/green-new-deal-ilona-duverge-1846958759.
In Pandemic Exposures, Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have a
Daniel Aldana Cohen's How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer appears in The Guardian
POSITION OVERVIEW
Salary range: The posted UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/july-2023-acad-salary-scales/t15.pdf . A reasonable estimate for this position is $66,259 - $94,470.
Percent time: 17% to 100%
The Computational Social Science Forum is a new weekly discussion series that provides an informal setting for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and scholarship at the intersection of social science and data science.
Racism infects every aspect of the criminal justice system. A panel of UC Berkeley professors will look at issues concerning race and criminal justice.
July 27, 12:50pm
Speakers include:
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
Nikki Jones, Professor, UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies
Armando Lara-Millan, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology