Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

Join us in congratulating Maurice Obstfeld who has been recently elected as this year's Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.

Maurice Obstfeld is a highly accomplished economist, currently serving as the Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also taught at other prestigious universities and served in various positions outside academia, including as a Member of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and as an Economic Counselor and Director of the Research Department at the International...

Hua Hsu, who graduated from UC Berkeley in 1999, is a 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner in the category of memoir or autobiography for his book, Stay True, Columbia University announced Monday, May 8, on the recommendation of the Pulitzer...

UC Berkeley African American Studies Professor Leigh Raiford and Berkeley Law Professor Saira Mohamed are among the 26...

Alison Gopnik, a University of California, Berkeley, psychology professor whose research has transformed our understanding of how children learn and what they can teach us about ourselves, is...