Social Sciences (Faculty & Staff)

Psychology transfer student Mariano Vincent Salvador never imagined seeing himself at UC Berkeley. The 27-year-old was once academically dismissed from Diablo Valley College (DVC) with a 1.6 GPA. Now he’s thriving as an A-student at UC Berkeley.

Salvador’s arduous academic journey began at DVC as a college student who didn’t understand the value of learning and was unsure about his future. This led to academic struggles, probation, and eventually, his dismissal because of low grades and a lack of academic units completed. ...

Economics and Political Science Professor Barry Eichengreen was featured in an episode of Trumponomics for Bloomberg.

On this episode of Trumponomics, we explore the impact of President Donald Trump’s economic policies on the standing of the US dollar, and the consequences for the US and global economies if the greenback is no longer the world’s primary reserve currency. As our guests explain, it seems that a reckoning has been in the making for some time. Barry Eichengreen, professor of economics and political science at the University of California Berkeley, joins along...

Whale whisperer. Time traveler. Robot wrangler.

For Gašper Beguš, associate professor of linguistics at UC Berkeley, it’s all in a day’s work.

Beguš’ love of languages started early. In elementary school in Slovenia, his education included learning the language of his home country, of course. But it also offered a hearty helping of linguistics, the scientific study of words, their meanings, and their past lives. He remembers coming across an etymological dictionary as a teenager, enraptured by the hidden world revealed between its covers.

“By the time I was in high...

This article from The New Yorker features Saru Jayaraman, founder of the UC Berkeley Food Labor Research Center; Michael Reich, an economics professor and David Card, an economics professor and Nobel laureate.

Hearings before the Commerce Committee of the Arizona House of Representatives normally draw a modest crowd of lobbyists in suits. On March 19, 2024, a throng of people in more casual attire appeared. They wore matching green T-shirts adorned with the message “Save Our Tips.” The slogan caught the eye of Analise Ortiz, a Democrat on the committee. She assumed that the...