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Sociology Commencement 2022

Dear Sociology Graduates, Family and Friends,

We will hold our commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 9am in Zellerbach Hall.

The Department of Sociology at University of California at Berkeley is generating an applicant pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach a range of
courses in the department should openings arise.

The position’s duties include: undergraduate and graduate teaching. In addition to teaching responsibilities, general duties may include holding office hours, assigning grades, advising students, preparing course materials (e.g. syllabus), writing exams, and managing GSIs.

Armando Lara-Millan to speak on racism in Campus panel on July 27

Racism infects every aspect of the criminal justice system. A panel of UC Berkeley professors will look at issues concerning race and criminal justice. July 27, 12:50pm Speakers include: Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean & Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law Nikki Jones, Professor, UC Berkeley Department of African American Studies

View Karen Barkey's video on the Hagia Sophia

Graduate student Yueran Zhang publishes paper in Theory and Society

Graduate student Yueran Zhang has published a paper, “Political Competition and Two Modes of Taxing Private Homeownership: A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Contemporary Chinese State,” in Theory and Society 49(4): 669-707.

Joe LaBriola is a 2019 Horowitz Foundation grant recipient

Kimberly Burke interviewed about police violence on NPR and Skimm This

Listen in on Kimberly Burke's interviews about police violence on NPR and Skimm This

Sandra Smith writes in The Guardian about the movement spawned by George Floyd's murder

Sandra Smith writes in The Guardian about the movement spawned by George Floyd's murder.

Robert Braun named co-winner of the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award

Robert Braun is the co-winner of the Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the ASA Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements, for his book Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust.

Cristina Mora pens OpEd on BLM and Latinxs

Cristina Mora recently penned an OpEd in the country's biggest Spanish Language newspaper on BLM and Latinxs. The piece (in Spanish) references some soc insights as well as from Latinx Studies.

Michel Estefan accepts tenure-track position at UCSD

Michel Estefan has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego.

Michaela Simmons publishes paper in ASR

Michaela Simmons has published paper, Becoming Wards of the State: Race, Crime, and Childhood in the Struggle for Foster Care Integration, 1920s to 1960s, in the ASR

New Tipping Point Research Presents Snapshot of Poverty Before COVID-19 Hit

From Berkeley Sociology Researchers Irene Bloemraad, Kim Voss, and Danny Schneider; and Berkeley Political Science Researcher Taeku Lee:

Sociology major finalist for 2020 University Medal!

Michael Cerda-Jara a graduating soc major is named a finalist for the

Cristina Mora cited in LA Times article on Californians and the government

Cristina Mora cited in article about trust of the government in this time of the coronavirus.

Irene Bloemraad: "If immigrants are not protected from COVID-19, everyone will suffer"

Irene Bloemraad's Berkeley blog post: "If immigrants are not protected from COVID-19, everyone will suffer"

New NIH-funded Predoctoral Fellowship Program in Computational Social Science

The UC Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP) trains predoctoral students representing a variety of degree programs and expertise areas in the social sciences, including demography, public health, public policy, social epidemiology, social welfare, and sociology.

Peter Hepburn accepts tenure-track position at Rutgers University, Newark

Peter Hepburn will begin a tenure-track appointment at Rutgers University in Newark this fall. Since receiving his PhD in the joint Sociology-Demography program he has been working with Matt Desmond and the Eviction Lab at Princeton University as a postdoctoral scholar.