URAP

Anna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Black meccas have been characterized by their economic and political opportunities and their cultural and social characteristics. Known for drawing African Americans to specific urban territories, black meccas have historically brought Blacks great social, economic, and psychological benefits, despite the vast inequalities and denigration they have faced in America. Yet...

Anna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project explores systems of patriarchy through a feminist lens, conceptualizing the everydayness and ubiquity of patriarchal power. Drawn initially from personal experiences, I am interested in naming the divergent array of patriarchal practices and conceptually mapping the various ways that patriarchy and anti-feminist systems imprint spatial and social...

Justin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Monitoring the status of wildlife populations is critical to assessing ecosystem health. Rapid advances in machine learning and engineering have recently allowed researchers to deploy acoustic recorders that autonomously capture and classify population trends for vocalizing species, such as birds. Currently, UC Berkeley is preparing to launching the first ever...

Justin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Several aspects of global change are changing the dynamics of fire ecology across California and around the world. Recent fires have had devastating effects on livelihoods across the state, but little remains known of the direct and indirect impacts of these fires on wildlife species and the implications of those...

Justin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Non-invasive techniques are increasingly valuable for ecologists to be able to collect data on the distribution, population sizes, behavior, and diet of wildlife species. The California Wolf Project led by Arthur Middleton and Justin Brashares at UC-Berkeley is teaming up with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

Robert Braun - Professor, Sociology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

This paper explores the heavily contested relationship between German folklore and the rise of the radical right during the interwar period (1914-1945). One the one hand, people have emphasized that tales can induce democratic values. On the other hand, scholars stressed how fairytales inculcate radical nationalist feelings. We explore this...

Charles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Project Title: Documenting Latinx Contributions to Health Care Access and Services “That's what you call solidarity. Everybody pitching in, everybody doing their part. We each one, teach one, each one, reach one!” - Yolanda Chacon- Serna (labor organizer and health advocate) “Health is politics by other means.” Alondra Nelson, author of...

Travis Bristol - Professor, Education

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Background: The Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity (CREEO), launched by Faculty Director Travis J. Bristol, at UC Berkeley School of Education, uses research to shape policy and practice in service of creating opportunities for students and adults historically at the margins to move closer to the center in...

Tolani Britton - Professor, Education

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Given the limited work opportunities available to persons who have been incarcerated, a college degree could serve as one means to improve both educational and job market outcomes. A number of states have expanded access to college classes for incarcerated persons. In 2014, California passed SB 1391, a law that...

Clair Brown - Professor, Economics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This URAP team focuses on the Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Policy Index (SSPI) that pulls together the data for over 50 policies that structure how markets operate, creates government programs (such as health care, education, housing) and protects human rights, and supports healthy ecosystems and protects the environment. This year the...

Clair Brown - Professor, Economics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on the Richmond ballot measure to impose $1 per barrel tax on Chevron, and on major California legislation related to Environmental Justice or climate justice that are submitted in 2025. The students will work on finding and evaluating data and research studies related to the problem the...

Tianna Bruno - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

In this project, undergraduate student researchers will focus on one or two of the following aspects of a broader digital humanities project: 1) archival analysis of historical records related to 'environmental burdens' in an environmental justice community. Students will work to chart a history of the country's largest refinery and...

Tianna Bruno - Professor, Geography

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Students will assist in the creation of a digital humanities project on Black geographies and environmental justice. Over the past four years, I have collaborated with community organizations and community members to collect oral histories focused on Black history, environmental relationships, and connections to place in Port Arthur, Texas, a...

Ryan Brutger - Professor, Political Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

My research studies international negotiations, international organizations, and domestic public support for international cooperation and economic policies. This includes a range of substantive issues, such as the negotiations surrounding the Iran-nuclear deal, the World Trade Organization, climate-change talks, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and antitrust policy. My research...

Jennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project will evaluate the relationship between the responsiveness of politicians to individual requests for assistance and their future political performance. Specifically, we will merge previously collected experimental data on the response, or lack thereof, of politicians in India to requests for help accessing government services, with subsequent data on...

Jennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the character of global clothing production and (re)use. At this stage of the project we will be collecting descriptive qualitative and quantitative data on (1) the political economy of clothing production and distribution, with an emphasis on fast fashion; (2) patterns of secondhand clothing trade, (3...

Jennifer Bussell - Professor, Political Science, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project seeks to understand the dynamics of the textiles industry in India, with special attention to the political economy of production. In this stage of the research, we will be focused on collecting background materials about the industry, including statistics on both small-and large-scale production, documentation of...

Stephanie Canizales - Professor, Sociology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

UC Berkeley is a premier migration research institution with a wealth of knowledge that can be powerfully leveraged by local organizations serving immigrant families in the region. The "Supporting Bay Area Immigrant Families" Project aims to survey immigration-related research produced by UC Berkeley scholars to create a publicly available...

Tamma Carleton - Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for highly motivated students interested in conducting research and analyses on a project investigating the impacts of climate change on human migration at global scale. This research initiative aims to leverage large historical datasets to empirically quantify how human migration responds to climate change, both within and...

Monica Castillejos-Aragon - Professor, Legal Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This research seeks to discuss both the causes and consequences of the exercise of domestic mechanisms to seek justice for victims of atrocities committed on foreign soil...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a welfare-to-work (WTW) program that provides cash aid and services to needy families with children in California. In order to receive cash aid, adult enrollees are required to participate in work-related activities. Non-compliance will cause a...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project aims to investigate the features of global welfare regimes with a focus on social protection systems. Dr. Yu-Ling Chang is collaborating with Dr. Julia Shu-Huah Wang at the National Taiwan University and social policy scholars from 20+ countries on this project. We use the model family...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Paid family leave benefits the well-being of workers and their family members (including newborns, adopted children, and ill family members) by offering partially or fully compensated time away from work for family caregiving. However, the U.S. is exceptional because it is the only wealthy country without a national-level...

Yu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

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Sharad Chari - Professor, Geography

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The idea of the Blue Economy has taken hold as a way of thinking about very different things, from deep sea mining to fishing and shipping, and to new ways of thinking about human interaction with the vast oceanic environment that is beyond our understanding. The idea of deepening extraction...

Jennifer Chatman - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Professor Jennifer Chatman’s lab works on a variety of questions at the intersection of organizational behavior, social and personality psychology, and firm strategy, and uses a mixture of behavioral lab experiments and field and archival research to answer these questions. Some current topics under investigation include: - What implications do new...

Emmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The purpose of this study is to describe lessons learned by health and human service organizations in integrating housing support and health care for Medicaid beneficiaries experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness. Data are drawn from the statewide evaluation of California’s Medi-Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program (WPC...

Emmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Students would be asked to support one of the following projects: PROJECT 1: ASHBY VILLAGE Ashby Village is a community-based nonprofit in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties that provides a range of support services and programs focused on helping older-adults “age in place” in the community. The organization...

Emmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Medicaid is a public health insurance that in California, covers more than one in three Californians. CalAIM is a multiyear plan to transform California's Medicaid program (known as "Medi-Cal"). This project focuses on evaluating implementation of new Enhanced Care Management and Community Supports benefits in California's Medicaid program, and...

Lawrence Cohen - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

From 2015-2021, I followed the unfolding of India's massive experiment in big-data governance, the national biometric ID known as Aadhaar, organizing the distribution of government and financial services via collecting the biometric scans (fingerprints and eyes) of persons in the world's most populous country. Alternatively praised as a vehicle...

Lawrence Cohen - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     

The core of this research involves translating from the Marathi language a series of essays by the Mumbai-based gay activist and journalist Ashok Row Kavi. These essays appeared in a prominent Marathi-language newspaper and have recently been published. I work with Mr. Row Kavi and have written about...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

Over the course of millions of years, the human brain has been intricately shaped by the process of evolution, transforming it into an unparalleled learning system capable of adeptly navigating complex and ever-changing natural environments. While its remarkable learning abilities surpass those of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms, the...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Habits are inflexible patterns of behavior that have become deeply ingrained through repetition. When it comes to situations we are likely to encounter often, habitual control can be effective and efficient. When passing by the Campanile en route to class, you might turn left automatically, and eventually arrive at your...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

From founding a startup to climbing the tallest peaks, people set a wide range of objectives for themselves. How do people decide which goals to set? How do they manage progress towards different – and perhaps competing – objectives? The proposed research plans to investigate goal setting in a range of naturalistic...

Anne Collins - Professor, Psychology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

Navigating complex natural environments presents a robust challenge to even the most advanced artificial systems, yet humans can often handle these same challenges effortlessly. What algorithms underly these human capabilities to learn and generalize so efficiently? My research investigates the learning algorithms implemented by the human brain to efficiently act...

Elena Conis - Professor, Journalism

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Seeking a research assistant for a professor writing a book on the use of pesticides in the U.S. and the public's understanding of scientific risks and communication in modern U.S. history...

Elena Conis - Professor, Journalism

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Vaccines, vaccination, and vaccination policy have become controversial and politicized topics in the U.S. Narratives that explain the origins of this controversy typically emphasize the actions and impact of a few key individuals, certain studies, and specific socio-cultural trends at the turn of the century. This project collects and...

Elena Conis - Professor, Journalism

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Students engaged in this project will help conduct research for a forthcoming book on the history of measles. The vaccine-preventable disease is rare in the US, though it has caused several noteworthy outbreaks in recent years and much larger outbreaks abroad. It has also, more recently, become an important...

Meg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are trying to finalize a project that has been collecting documents related to the development of feminist and gender archaeology, and starting on a new archiving project related to the archaeological field project, Between the Caves, which took place in southern France to survey the landscape for Paleolithic archaeological...

Marianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Chicago Husband-Killing and the New Unwritten Law is a book-length manuscript concerned with a particular defense known as the new unwritten law, which supposedly exonerated women accused of killing their husbands in Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. The point of the book is to explore...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This is an archival project on the history of the printing press and development of print culture in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

How can we write a history of Latine feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? Knowing more about this can give us a better sense of two things: how have Latine communities expressed...

Raul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies

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Mark Courtney - Professor, Social Welfare

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

About Us: The Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub; https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/TAY/) is a dynamic research collaborative located within the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The TAY-Hub is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving the lives of transition-age youth...

Clayton Critcher - Professor, Business, Haas School

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

In my lab, we work on a variety of topics at the intersection of social psychology, judgment and decision making, and consumer behavior. Almost all questions are addressed with the use of behavioral experiments. At present, we are answering questions like the following: *When do consumers defer to product-review...

Sean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Sean Darling-Hammond is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and the PI for the THESIS lab which stands for Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools Dr. Darling-Hammond, and the THESIS team, conduct research to ascertain how k-12 school practices...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

The project aims to bridge machine learning with behavioral science and finance, creating predictive models that offer insights into human interactions and startup success. This research is divided into two distinct but interconnected studies: Team Performance Prediction in Behavioral Science: In this study, we will analyze team dynamics by recording...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on designing and launching behavioral experiments to understand decision-making and social behavior in various contexts, including social media, taxes, and online dating. By setting up controlled field and lab studies, the research team aims to capture real-world behavioral data that can provide insights into how...

Diag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours     Location: On Campus

This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...