David Showalter (Berkeley PhD 2022) was awarded the ASA dissertation award for "Going Nowhere: The Social Life of Opioids in Backcountry California."
Kristen Nelson and Mario Castillo delivered the graduate student address at the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology’s spring 2023 commencement ceremony. See the Berkeley News story and listen to their speech.
Sociology PhD student, Alinaya Fabros, wins the Frances Coles Summer Research Grant from the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Congratulations!
A well-argued and insightful NY Times article by Cihan Tugal
PhD Candidate Naniette Coleman has received the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award. Congratulations, Naniette!
Aja Antoine-Jones wins Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship for her project on Policing, Pollution, Plague: Breath and Death in an Unequal Society. Congratulations, Aja!
Professor Cristina Mora and Professor Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz are in the news discussing their efforts to advance and support Latinx research at UC Berkeley.
Sociology undergraduate Monica Gao’s paper entitled “A Marker of Assimilation?: Comparison between Chinese and Indian Immigrant Parents’ Naming Practices” has been selected as the first-place winner from Alpha Kappa Delta