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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.

Christopher Muller receives the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the ASA Comparative-Historical Section

Christopher Muller has received the Charles Tilly Best Article Award from the ASA Comparative-Historical Section for "Freedom and Convict Leasing in the Postbellum South," American Journal of Sociology 124: 367-405.

Daniel Schneider, Orestes Hastings, and Joe LaBriola have received the 2019 ASA Family Section Article of the Year Award

Joe LaBriola and Daniel Schneider publish article in Social Forces

Caleb Scoville has been awarded with an Honorable Mention in the Hacker-Mullins Student Paper Award from the ASA's Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section

Yan Long has received the 2019 Best Article Award from the ASA Political Sociology section and Best Research Paper Award from the ASA Asian American section

Caleb Scoville wins the 2019 Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award from the ASA Environmental Sociology section

Caleb Scoville has won the 2019 Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award from the ASA Environmental Sociology section for, "Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and the Morality of Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta."

Yan Long receives the 2019 Best Article Award from the ASA Sociology of Development section.

Yan Long has received the 2019 Best Article Award from the ASA Sociology of Development section.

Yan Long receives the 2019 Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA Global and Transnational Sociology section.

Yan Long has received the 2019 Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA Global and Transnational Sociology section.

Yan Long receives the 2019 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements section.

Yan Long receives the 2019 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the ASA Collective Behavior and Social Movements section for "The Contradictory Impact of Transnational AIDS Institutions on State Repression in China, 1989–2013."

Andy Scott Chang wins 2019 ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

Andy Scott Chang has won the 2019 ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology Award for Best Graduate Student Paper for “Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia’s Migration Infrastructure.” Pacific Affairs 91(4):695-716.

Lie discusses gender and K-Pop in Asia Times

Professor John Lie discusses gender and K-Pop in Asia Times.

Johnson-Hanks discusses changes in US birth rates in NY Times

Michel Estefan receives the Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship for 2019-2020 from the Institute of International Studies

Michel Estefan has received the Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship for 2019-2020 from the Institute of International Studies.

Raka Ray appointed as dean of Division of Social Sciences

Dear campus community,

Caleb Scoville receives 2019 Mike Synar Research Fellowship

Caleb Scoville receives 2019 Mike Synar Research Fellowship from the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.

Jessica Schirmer, Tara Gonsalves, and Adriana Ramirez named the 2019 Berkeley Social Justice Fellows

Michel Estefan, Isabel Garcia Valdivia, and David Showalter receive Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Graduate Fellowship

2019-2020 BERKELEY EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES (BELS) GRADUATE FELLOWS from Berkeley Sociology: David Showalter “Formal and Informal Social Control in a Remote California Town”