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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.

Emily Ruppel Publishes an Article in Sexualities

Emily Ruppel has published an article, "Turning Bourdieu Back Upon Sexual Field Theory" in Sexualities. It can be accessed at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363460720976958.

Cristina Mora published OpEd in the Los Angeles Times

Cristina Mora publishes OpEd, "Look Local to Understand the 'Complex' Latino Vote," in the Los Angeles Times

Tara Gonsalves Publishes an Article in Gender and Society

Tara Gonsalves has published an article, "Gender Identity, the Sexed Body, and the Medical Making of Transgender" in Gender and Society. The digital version is now available here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243220965913.

Raka Ray cited in article on issues around the 2020 election

Raka Ray was cited in an Australian article looking at the 2020 election.

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues closure discussed in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Cristina Mora publishes OpEd in San Francisco Chronicle on "Hispanic Heritage Month"

Cristina Mora has published an OpEd in the San Francisco Chronicle "It’s time to reclaim ‘Hispanic Heritage Month’"

Cristina Mora helps to inform a discussion on "Latino, Hispanic, Latinx, Chicano" terms on History.com

Cristina Mora helps to inform a discussion on "Latino, Hispanic, Latinx, Chicano" terms on History.com.

Isabel García Valdivia published article in Social Problems

Isabel García Valdivia has published "Legal Power in Action: How Latinx Adult Children Mitigate the Effects of Parents’ Legal Status through Brokering," in Soci

Announcing Computational Social Science Forum

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.

Cristina Mora on KCBS Radio: Lack of Hispanic Representation at the DNC

Tara Gonsalves publishes article in Social Forces

Tara Gonsalves has published an article, "Transnational Diffusion and Regional Resistance: Domestic LGBT Association Founding, 1979–2009," in Social Forces.

Robert Braun is co-winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award

Robert Braun is the co-winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award from the Comparative-Historical Section of the American Sociological Association for his book, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust (New York: Cambridge University Press)

Michael Burawoy wins Lifetime Achievement Award from the Marxists Sociology Section, ASA

Michael Burawoy won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

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.