G Cristina Mora

Cristina Mora

G Cristina Mora

Associate Professor
Office
474 Social Sciences Bldg
Phone
510-642-5877
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Culture, Race and Ethnicity, Organizations, Immigration, Religion

G. Cristina Mora completed her B.A. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 2003 and earned her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 2009. Before returning to Cal, she was a Provost Postdoctoral Scholar in Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Professor Mora’s research focuses mainly on questions of racial and ethnic categorization, organizations, and immigration. Her book, Making Hispanics, was published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press and provides a socio-historical account of the rise of the “Hispanic/Latino” panethnic category in the United States. This work, along with related articles, has received wide recognition, including the 2010 Best Dissertation Award and the 2018 Early Career Award (SREM) from the American Sociological Association.

Please see Professor Mora's website for more information on her current projects  

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