PhD student Skyler Wang and a team of researchers at Meta AI announced and open-sourced a big foundational speech-to-speech translation AI model that can translate across 100 languages.
Barrie Thorne’s Gender Play was a landmark study of the social worlds of primary school children that sparked a paradigm shift in our understanding of how kids and the adults around them contest and reinforce gender boundaries. Thirty years later, Gender Replay celebrates and reflects on this classic, extending Thorne’s scholarship into a new and different generation.
PhD student Daniel Lobo has published a Sage MethodsSpace blog post on "Why Black Representation in Data Science Training Mattershttps://www.methodspace.com/blog/sicss-howardmathematica-2022-participant-talks-about-why-black-representation-in-data-science-training-matters."
PhD candidate Isaac Dalke has published a paper titled, "I Come before You a Changed Man: “Insight,” Compliance, and Refurbishing Penal Practice in California," in the journal Law & Social Inquiry.
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The ‘Un-Becoming’: A former Eastside gang member finds his resurrection tale at UC Berkeley
BERKELEY, Calif. — Jessi Fernandez joined a street gang at 13. By his 20s, he had been shot at more times than he could count...
Undergraduate Advisor Cristina Rojas, herself a sociology major, discusses What Can You Do With a Sociology Degree? in a recent article in U.S. News and World Report.
Professor Michael Burawoy and PhD students Margaret Eby, Thomas Gepts, Justin Germain, Natalie Pasquinelli, and Elizabeth Torres Carpio published a series of papers on "Laboring in the Extractive University" in the journal Work and Occupations.
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.”