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Lecturer Positions

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.

Berkeley Sociology is ranked #1 Sociology graduate program in the 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

Mara Loveman receives the 2022 Faculty Mentor Award

Mara Loveman is the winner of the 2022 Faculty Mentor Award!

Berkeley PhD Candidate Kimberly Burke is a Grad Slam semifinalist!

Berkeley PhD candidate Kimberly Burke is a Grad Slam semifinalist! The UC Berkeley competition will take place on

Martin Eiermann accepts postdoc at Duke

Martin Eiermann has accepted a 3-year postdoc at Duke University.

Cristina Mora receives 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity

Cristina Mora receives 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity.

Sociology Commencement 2022

Please click https://sociology.berkeley.edu/sociology-commencement-2022 for more information on the Department of Sociology 2022 commencement.

Alicia Sheares accepts tenure-track position at Stanford

Alicia Sheares has accepted a tenure track Assistant Professor position from Stanford University’s Management Science and Engineering Department

Daniel Aldana Cohen's collaboration with activist Ilona Duverge on the GND for Public Housing discussed

Daniel Aldana Cohen's collaboration with activist Ilona Duverge in developing the Green New Deal for Public Housing discussed in https://gizmodo.com/green-new-deal-ilona-duverge-1846958759.

Sociology faculty create curriculum bridges to data science

Robert Fales isn't a data scientist. He only signed up for the data science-focused sociology class because he wanted to work with Professor David Harding, a leader in the social science field. But once Fales started using data science tools to analyze education inequality data, he knew he'd be using them to transition sociology from his major to his career.

Book co-edited by Marion Fourcade published: Pandemic Exposures

In Pandemic Exposures, Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled a

UC Berkeley Social Science Matrix Profiles Graduate Student Isabel García Valdivia

Isabel Garc

Daniel Aldana Cohen writes article for The Guardian

Daniel Aldana Cohen's How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer appears in The Guardian

Cristina Mora featured in California magazine podcast

Cristina Mora featured in California magazine podcast episode, "That Manhole is Now a Maintenance Hole", in The Edge, on the origins of the term "Latinx" and why she uses it.

David Joseph-Goteiner publishes article in Sociology of Religion

David Joseph-Goteiner and co-author Alexandre Rigal have published "The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: “Clapping for Carers” During the Conflict Against COVID-19,” in Sociology of Religion.

New faculty, hired in clusters, to address global issues, equity, justice

Scholar and Berkeley Sociology PhD Gail Omvedt Dies at 81

Dr. Gail Omvedt passed away on August 25, 2021 at her home in India. She was 81. Dr. Omvedt earned her PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley in 1973 for her dissertation titled, "Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930."

Mary Shi, in collaboration with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, has published Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (Oakland: PM Press, 2021).

Congratulations to Angel Ross, winner of the ASA’s Community and Urban Sociology Section Graduate Student Paper Award!

Congratulations to Isabel García Valdivia, co-winner of the Latina/o Sociology Section's Cristina Maria Riegos Student Paper Award!

Congratulations to Berkeley Sociology graduate Matty Lichtenstein, co-winner of the ASA Political Sociology section’s Best Graduate Student Paper Award!