PhD students Alonzo Ackerman and Jenae Carpenter have been named Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellows by the Center for Study of Law and Society.
Alonzo will pursue a project titled, "The Origins of Collective Bargaining in Teachers’ Professional Associations in the U.S."
Jenae will pursue a project titled, "'The Civilizing Mission': The Genesis of Hyperincarceration in Settler Colonial Australia."
Congratulations Alonzo and Jenae!
Raka Ray, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Social Sciences, is this year's winner of the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association. The award recognizes a scholar who has dedicated their career to enlarging “the horizons of sociology to encompass fully the role of women in society.”
David Showalter (Berkeley PhD 2022) was awarded the ASA dissertation award for "Going Nowhere: The Social Life of Opioids in Backcountry California."
Kristen Nelson and Mario Castillo delivered the graduate student address at the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology’s spring 2023 commencement ceremony. See the Berkeley News story and listen to their speech.
Sociology PhD student, Alinaya Fabros, wins the Frances Coles Summer Research Grant from the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Congratulations!
A well-argued and insightful NY Times article by Cihan Tugal
PhD Candidate Naniette Coleman has received the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award. Congratulations, Naniette!
Aja Antoine-Jones wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for her project on Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society. Congratulations, Aja!
Professor Cristina Mora and Professor Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz are in the news discussing their efforts to advance and support Latinx research at UC Berkeley.