Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

Berkeley Talks: Novelist Alice Walker: 'Dance when you feel like dancing'

March 12, 2021
Public Affairs

Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, a novelist, poet, and activist, spoke with Ra Malika Imhotep, a Ph.D. candidate in African diaspora studies at UC Berkeley, and Darieck Scott, a professor in Berkeley’s Department of African American Studies, as part of the department’s spring 2021 Critical Conversations series.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/03/12/berkeley-talks-alice-walker/

Scott McDonald Offers a Chance to Do More Than Research

February 4, 2021
Gail Kurtz

Berkeley alum Scott McDonald believes in workplace diversity, and he’s put time, effort, and money behind that conviction. A ’73 sociology grad, Scott has had a long and successful career in advertising at leading global media companies like Time Warner and Conde Nast. Currently the CEO and President of the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), he and his colleagues recently established a charitable foundation – the ARF Workforce Initiative for Diversity and Excellence (ARF WIDE) – to improve workforce quality and diversity in the advertising, media, and research-analytics...

African American Studies Professor Wins National Award for Criminology Research

December 1, 2020

UC Berkeley African American Studies professor Nikki Jones has won the 2020 Michael J. Hindelang Award. The national honor given by the American Society of Criminology (ASC), recognizes a book published within the past three years that makes the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology.

Jones recently received the award for her book The Chosen Ones: Black Men and the Politics of Redemption. Through the use of ethnographic interviews with inner-city police officers and recordings of police encounters collected by and alongside law enforcement, the book delves into the...

UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Alison Gopnik receives 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award

February 23, 2021
Hagit Caspi

UC Berkeley Psychology Professor Alison Gopnik receives 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science. The Association’s Highest Honors Recognize Outstanding Contributions to Science. Read more here: lscience.org/news/2021-lifetime-achievement-awards.html

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2021-lifetime-achievement-awards.html

Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite anthropology's checkered past

February 23, 2021
Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations

Today, Lightfoot (a UC Berkeley anthropology professor), 67, is an influential and endearing figure in Indigenous archaeology, a subfield of anthropology that eschews cultural imperialism and blends tribal perspectives, customs and collaboration into scholarship. With precision technology that can detect what’s beneath the ground and prevent unnecessary digging — including ground-penetrating radar, satellite imagery, magnetometry and light detection and ranging sensors — the field is, in many ways, an antithesis to anthropology’s grave-plundering past.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2021/02/04/indigenous-archaeology-plows-forward-despit…