News & Events
Berkeley Sociology is ranked #1 Sociology graduate program in the 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings by U.S. News & World Report.
Mara Loveman is the winner of the 2022 Faculty Mentor Award!
Berkeley PhD candidate Kimberly Burke is a Grad Slam semifinalist! The UC Berkeley competition will take place on April 11, 2022, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. via Zoom. The event is open to the entire Berkeley community.
Martin Eiermann has accepted a 3-year postdoc at Duke University.
Cristina Mora receives 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity.
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 in developing the Green New Deal for Public Housing discussed in https://gizmodo.com/green-new-deal-ilona-duverge-1846958759.
In Pandemic Exposures, Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have a
Daniel Aldana Cohen's How will humanity endure the climate crisis? I asked an acclaimed sci-fi writer appears in The Guardian
POSITION OVERVIEW
Salary range: The posted UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay at appointment. See the following table for the salary scale for this position: https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/july-2023-acad-salary-scales/t15.pdf . A reasonable estimate for this position is $66,259 - $94,470.
Percent time: 17% to 100%
The Computational Social Science Forum is a new weekly discussion series that provides an informal setting for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and scholarship at the intersection of social science and data science.
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
Armando Lara-Millan, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Sociology
Professor David Harding is the Principal Investigator of a new 5-year $3 Million NSF-funded project titled, "Undergraduate Data Science Education at Scale," that will evaluate, refine, and disseminate UC Berkeley's innovative data science undergraduate education program.
Danny Schneider's work with UCSF sociologist, Kristen Harknett, for IRLE's Shift Project examining the effects of unstable work schedules on workers in the retail and food service industries. is featured in the Daily Californian
Recent Berkeley alumni book awards:
The Weekender
Friday, December 7, 2018
Back and Forth, Criminal Justice 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/05/11/berkeley-police-stops-show-racial-disparities-but-what-does-that-mean
Berkeley police stops show racial disparities — but what does that mean?
Assistant Professor of Sociology Danny Schneider and his co-author, Associate Professor Kristen Harknett (UCSF) have released a report that draws on new data from the Shift project to describe work scheduling practices in the service sector in Philadelphia The majority of those surveyed experience schedule instability and unpredictability, which create hardships and stress for themselves and their families. This work has been covered in the
Katy Fox-Hodess has published a paper, "(Re-)Locating the Local and National in the Global: Multi-Scalar Political Alignment in Transnational European Dockworker Union Campaigns," in the British Journal of Industrial Relations