Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Alum has recently been named USC’s Vice Provost for the Arts

March 23, 2023

Congratulations to Josh Kun, a UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Alum, who has recently been named USC Annenberg’s Vice Provost for the Arts! Josh Kun will partner with USC’s art schools and USC Museums to create universitywide programs, new initiatives, and fundraising to activate the arts across the university and Los Angeles arts community.

“The arts are a really valuable and urgent language for creating little cracks in those armors of division. Globally, we need what artists are bringing more than ever before.” - Josh Kun

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Seven hundred 2022-23 graduates invited to join Phi Beta Kappa

March 21, 2023

The Berkeley chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society has made its first round of invitations to Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 graduates to join the liberal arts and sciences honors society founded in 1776. Over 700 seniors, almost all from the College of Letters & Science, are receiving emails notifying them of selection and detailing how to join.

If you are a Berkeley student and receive an invitation, please be sure to consider joining.

Fee waivers to cover the enrollment fee are available for those who face financial...

Berkeley Economics Professor Argues That Closing Tax Havens Is Key to Saving Democracy

March 20, 2023

The war in Ukraine has highlighted the danger that offshore finance poses to the rules-based global order. Western governments must seize this opportunity to combat tax avoidance and evasion while weakening the ability of autocratic regimes to foment global instability.

Read more about this article and what Berkeley Economics Professor, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, has to say on this topic...

UC Berkeley Faculty Explores How Canadian LGB Voters' Political Preferences Have Evolved

March 8, 2023
Join us for "The Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Vote in a More Tolerant Canada", a colloquium featuring Berkeley's Dr. Eric Guntermann, and Simon Fraser University's Dr. Edana Beauvais. This presentation analyzes original research on Canadian LGB voters’ political preferences a decade and a half after legalized same-sex marriage. Consistent with prior findings, gay men, and, to a lesser extent, bisexual men, are more left-wing than heterosexual men. A more novel finding is that bisexual women are the most left-wing group. Lesbian women are only slightly to the left of heterosexual...

Geography Professor Emerita Dr. Gillian Hart wins 2023 AAG Presidential Achievement Award

January 11, 2023

Dr. Gillian Hart, Geography Professor Emerita, has won the AAG Presidential Achievement Award, which recognizes individuals who have made long-standing and distinguished contributions to the discipline of geography.

From the American Association of Geographers (AAG): "Professor Gillian Hart is recognized for her foundational work in the critical human...

What does California owe descendants of the enslaved?

February 28, 2023

Berkeley News recently interviewed Jovan Scott Lewis, a University of California, Berkeley, associate professor of geography and chair of the geography department, conducting a Q&A on his idea of reparations and its applicability in the current discussions held by California's Reparations Task Force.

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

February 13, 2023

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....

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

February 10, 2023

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...