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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...
Social SciencesStephanie 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...
Social SciencesHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
I am analyzing employee descriptions (reviews) of their firms from Glassdoor.com. We are measuring the gender slant of employing organizations’ conceptions of what work means, who workers are, and who has power. Such gendered conceptions can erect barriers to equality by framing ideal workers, work activities, and company goals as...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHeather Haveman - Professor, Sociology, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
I am analyzing a longitudinal database of articles published in the Washington Post newspaper from 1977 to 2024. The primary goal is to understand how gender roles are portrayed in news media. To do this, we are using several natural-language-processing techniques. We are building a dictionary of gender...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJerome Karabel - Professor, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Outlier Nation: The Roots and Consequences of American Exceptionalism The United States has always been exceptional – both for better and for worse. Its distinctive form of democratic capitalism has made the United States the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, the world's leading economy, and home to (by some...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesKristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is part of an forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, common parts of American family life throughout much of American history, came to be regulated in the late 19th century, became liberalized a century later, and are now the focus of intense political controversy. That regulation has...
Social Sciences