David Harding David J. Harding UC Berkeley Sociology compares the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to question nonexperimental findings on neighborhood effects for adults➡️faculti.net/evaluating-con… #neighborhoodeffects #sociology

Are you a grad student or an early career faculty who wants to learn about publishing in academic journals? ASA’s next prosem will give you insights into submission timelines, addressing reviewer comments, & more. Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. Eastern. Register today! bit.ly/3C0Uf0T

(1/2) Congratulations to UC Berkeley Sociology Ph.D. student Julio Fernando Salas on being awarded a professional development grant by the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families! Learn more: bit.ly/4eUf8sF

We're excited to announce that our faculty member, Yan Long, has published a new book! Dive into this insightful and thought-provoking work that promises to captivate and inform. Discover more here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Sociologist Stephanie Canizales from UC Berkeley Sociology joins the podcast to discuss the complex realities unaccompanied migrant youth face, the factors that lead them to embark on such journeys, and the challenges they face in adapting to new surroundings. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/una…

In their The New York Times op-ed, UC Berkeley Sociology Prof. Daniel Cohen (Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social) + Providence College Political Science Prof. Thea Riofrancos (Thea Riofrancos) argue that, to win support, Democrats must pursue climate policies that benefit the working class. Read more: bit.ly/3DISYMA

"Your lived experience is not a deficit; it's a benefit and a value." -Meriam Salem, HPRS Cohort 2024 Get more application tips from current scholars in our webinar recording bit.ly/HPRSwebinar Apply by March 11: rwjf.org/cfp/hprs9 UC Berkeley Sociology RWJF

If you are a UC Berkeley Social Sciences student, I invite you for pizza at noon on Feb. 24 at Durant Hall on campus. I look forward to hearing about your semester + Cal experiences! RSVP by emailing [email protected]

Check out our very own PhD student Daniel Lobo's interview in ASA's ACCOUNTS section Newsletter! drive.google.com/file/d/1pdtKhn…

Deeply saddened by the passing of Michael Burawoy. A giant has fallen. I mourn him with his thousands of students and colleagues. As he would want it, we must carry on, in words of the Puerto Rican communist Consuelo Lee Corretjer, “con un hombro menos.”

(1/6) Like many others I am reeling from the news of the death of my beloved mentor and friend Michael Burawoy, UC Berkeley Sociology professor emeritus. This is a tremendous loss for me personally, to our Social Sciences community, UC Berkeley, and to sociologists worldwide;

RIP Michael Burawoy, you were a gem and touched the lives of our department, our community, and around the world. Stay tuned for more information.

We lost a rare scholar: not only a sociologist of the factory, but also a sociologist IN the factories… a sociologist in the universities, but also a sociologist OF the university… The perfect expression and critical reconstruction not only of thesis 11, but also of theses 3,

The International Sociological Association ISA invites the global community of sociologists to an online tribute to the life of Michael Burawoy, Saturday, Feb. 8, noon Eastern. Follow the YouTube live transmission bit.ly/414VbLC.

Remembering Michael Burawoy. Click each slide to view the content. Visit our website to view his Memoriam. sociology.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley Sociology Ranked No. 1 Nationwide: UC Berkeley’s Department of Sociology has earned the top national ranking, reflecting the department’s continued excellence in research, teaching, and impact.

🎉 Big Congrats to Professor and Chair David Harding! 🎉 Sociology’s own has been awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity 👏🏽 This honor celebrates faculty who go above and beyond to support students.

Caleb Scoville Berkeley Soc Alum is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, has been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for his research project titled “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.”

Let's congratulate Ph.D. student Anna Palmer on receiving the prestigious 2025–2026 Mentored Research Award! This well-deserved recognition highlights her dedication to research excellence and academic achievement. Visit our website for more information. sociology.berkeley.edu

Mary Shi University of Michigan is the recipient of the 2025 Dissertation Award, for “Settlers’ Republic: Land, Infrastructure, and the Emergence of New Technologies of Government in the United States, 1789-1862” completed at UC Berkeley. bit.ly/ASA25Awards