Women outnumber men on college campuses, graduate at higher rates, earn better grades, and have made significant in-roads in many occupations. For example, the majority of law, human and veterinary medicine, dentistry, and doctoral students are women, and women hold almost 52 percent of all management- and professional-level jobs.
Congratulations to Monica Gao and Sanjana Manjeshwar for being selected to receive the Charles H. Percy Undergraduate Grant for Public Affairs Research!
Each year, the Institute of Governmental Studies awards four Charles H. Percy grants to UC Berkeley undergraduate students who are conducting research on an aspect of American politics, including public opinion, electoral behavior, civic participation, government institutions, social movements, and public policy.
Congratulations to Isaac Dalke for being selected to receive a Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship!
The Synar Fellowship is awarded to distinguished UC Berkeley graduate students who are writing their dissertations on an aspect of American politics, which may include comparative research across nations with the United States as a major case.
Women were required by law to take their husband’s surnames upon marriage until the 1970s, and the practice is still dominant in American society. This practice provides a unique opportunity to evaluate the persistence of gendered norms and expectations beyond people’s stated attitudes. The marital exchange/bargaining approaches predicts that married women will be more likely to take their husband’s surnames if they have lower status than their husbands. In contrast.
In recent decades, the rising trend of populism threatens to undermine democracy globally. Existing
scholarship has analyzed how macro structural forces and cultural performative factors contribute to
populist rhetoric and mobilizations. However, relatively little research has been devoted to documenting
or theorizing counter-populism. This talk will explore the question: how does counter-populist political
performance gain resonance with the public? I will engage the literatures of populism, political
Daniel Aldana Cohen argues that planning the withdrawal from Miami would force other places to get serious about hosting climate migrants, while Samantha Schuyler says Miami can still become a model of adaptation.
On January 20, 2023 Danny Thongsy's stor was published by Berkeley News. The message is about his journey through the school to prison and deportation pipeline.
Student Danny Thongsy: We can look within ourselves to find strength and persevere:
Incidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France, the United States, and worldwide. Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region, this talk argues that, despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted.
Michaela Simmons, Berkeley PhD 2021, has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Wisconsin. Congratulations Michaela!