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 award-winning 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 Best Dissertation Award and the 2018 Early Career Award (SREM) from the American Sociological Association. Her work has also been been the subject of various national media segments in venues like the Atlantic, the New Yorker, NPR, and Latino USA. She is currently working on her next book, Dreaming in the Land of Inequality, which examines the rise of income and racial inequality in California

At UC Berkeley, her long-term efforts towards diversity and inclusion have recently been formally acknowledged. In 2021 and 2022, she received the UCB Graduate Mentoring Award and the Chancellors Award for Advancing Equity and Excellence, and she led campus’ first social-science cluster hire focused on “Latinos and Democracy.” In 2023 she received a million-dollar federal grant from the Department of Education to establish a “Latino Social Science Pipeline” initiative at UC Berkeley. 

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

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