Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

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

March 8, 2023
Cori Anne Montero
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...

Xiaowei Wang's Essay Collection Named a 2023 Science & Literature Selected Title by National Book Foundation & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

March 8, 2023

Headshot of Xiaowei WangGeography Ph.D. candidate, Xiaowei Wang, wrote an essay collection that was chosen by the National Book Foundation (NBF) and...

https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-foundation-and-alfred-p-sloan-foundat…

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...

https://www.aag.org/2023-aag-awards-recognition/

What does California owe descendants of the enslaved?

February 28, 2023
Cori Anne Montero

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
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. ...