Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

New Berkeley center to explore critical issues at intersection of politics, economy

February 13, 2023
Ed Lempinem

A new UC Berkeley center will convene top scholars and students across a range of disciplines to conduct high-level research on critical social challenges at the intersection of politics and economics.

Funded by a five-year, $10 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the new Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI) aims to deepen scholarship on the vitally important interplay between economic and political systems in the U.S. and worldwide....

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/02/13/new-berkeley-center-to-explore-critical-iss…

UC Berkeley Economics Faculty Examine Ukraine's Current Situation and its Recovery Efforts

February 10, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

Join us for "Book Release: Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies", a lecture featuring three distinguished UC Berkeley Economics Faculty: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Barry Eichengreen, and Gérard Roland.

With a clearer outlook and major developments (for example, Ukraine is now a candidate country to join the European Union), there is an urgent need to lay the groundwork for...

Economy and Society Initiative to Launch at UC Berkeley

February 9, 2023

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Economy and Society Initiative to Launch at UC Berkeley

A major grant from the Hewlett Foundation will support a new hub for research and teaching focused on the intersection of economics and government.


BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — The University of California, Berkeley is launching a new research center...

Caleb Dawson, BSC Dissertation Fellow, Discusses the Cost that Black People Face for Caring in the University

February 7, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

Join us TOMORROW for "Caught Caring: (Un)freedom and the Costs of Service Labor in the University", a panel discussion about the costs that Black people face for caring in the university.

Panelists

Caleb Dawson, Abolition Democracy Dissertation Fellow, Black Studies Collaboratory and Ph.D. Candidate in Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender in the Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley Adia Harvey Wingfield,Professor of Arts and Sciences and Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity,...

Felwine Sarr and Berkeley Professor Discusses How Music and Poetry Facilitates Their Engagement With the World

February 7, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

Felwine Sarr: Music, Freedom, Africa

In this conversation with music, Felwine Sarr addresses some of the topics that traverse his multidisciplinary work: freedom, dreams, relationality, repair, transmission, traces, and non-logocentric forms of sensemaking. Sarr is best known as the author of the award-winning Afrotopia (2016) and Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage (2018), which shifted conversations at a global scale on the central role of Africa in the design of planetary futurity and on the status of the colonial origins of art...

Former Berkeley Professor Identify Key Causes of Workplace Burnout and Reveal What People Can Do About It

February 7, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

Burnout is among the most significant on-the-job hazards facing workers today.

Christina Maslach, an American social psychologist and Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Michael P. Leiter, an organizational psychologist and Professor of Organisational Psychology at Deakin University, co-authored The Burnout Challenge. In their book, they've identified at least six areas in which a bad fit – or mismatch – between the job and the person can increase the risk of burnout. ...

Berkeley Psychology Graduate Students Create a New Program

February 7, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

Berkeley Psychology graduate students recently created the Research Experience Pathways (REP) in the Psychology program to provide greater opportunities for underrepresented students and to increase diversity and inclusion in research and academia.

Learn more about this program and how to get involved.

BERKELEY BOOK CHAT: The Everyday Life of Memorials ​​

February 7, 2023
Hagit Caspi

BERKELEY BOOK CHAT: The Everyday Life of Memorials ​​

In this session, Andrew Shaken (Architecture and American Studies) and David Henkin (@UCBHistory) will explore the relationship of memorials to the pulses of daily life, and their place within the development of modern cities.

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023

12:00 p.m. PST

Register

https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/everyday-life-memorials

A Conversation with Marshall Scholar Jonathan Kuo

January 19, 2022
Juan Rivera - L&S Communications Assistant
A Conversation with Marshall Scholar Jonathan Kuo

UC Berkeley undergraduate Jonathan Kuo was recently named as a 2022 recipient of the Marshall Scholarship. Created after World War II by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, this...

Two L&S Professors Awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships

April 14, 2021
Michelle Phillips

On April 8, 2021, Guggenheim Fellowships were awarded to four UC Berkeley professors amongst a diverse group of 184 artists, scholars, and scientists. These prestigious fellowships acknowledge those with notable achievements and an exceptional capacity for productive scholarship. Two of this year’s recipients are faculty members in the College of Letters and Science:

Raúl Coronado...