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Dana Carney - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
These are topics for potential projects to be started/continued in the Fall/Spring*** ***THERE ARE SO MANY PROJECTS GOING ON IN THE LAB- THIS IS JUST A DESCRIPTION OF A FEW. BUT OVERALL, WE STUDY NONVERBALS IN VOICE, FACE, AND BODY. HOW DO WE EXPRESS WHO WE ARE? WHAT...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMonica Castillejos-Aragon - Professor, Legal Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research project examines patterns of enforced disappearance, with particular attention to the experiences of families searching for missing persons and the institutional responses developed to investigate these cases. Research assistants will contribute to comparative legal and historical research, source collection and verification, analysis of national and international mechanisms, and...
Social SciencesYu-Ling Chang - Professor, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project investigates how student parents enrolled in CalWORKs (welfare-to-work) program navigate complex welfare requirements while pursuing higher education across the University of California (UC) system. Grounded in administrative burden theory, our study explores how the learning, compliance, and psychological costs embedded in public benefit systems affect student...
Social SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Firms increasingly set prices that are personalized to the individual consumer, using automated systems that draw on people's behavioral and personal data–a practice regulators have begun to call 'surveillance pricing'. Lawmakers in the U.S. and E.U. are actively debating how to respond, from transparency and disclosure requirements to limits...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The "second chance gap" is the gap between eligibility and delivery of relief from criminal records through expungement. While "Clean Slate" laws automate this relief, a secondary gap persists: many beneficiaries remain unaware that their records have been cleared. This lack of notification may prevent individuals from re-entering the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesEmmeline 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...
Social SciencesAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
From learning to follow classroom rules to adapting when plan A fails, children undergo a dramatic transformation in how they control their thoughts and actions. How do the underlying building blocks of cognitive control—such as flexibility, decision-making, and rule-switching—develop as children grow? How do child behavioral...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Over the coming academic year, this project would design ( and hopefully. launch) a personal professional website for a now-retired archaeologist ( Anthropology) that would include some links to selected publications, a photo gallery of some sort, and some descriptive text. Nothing too fancy but fun...
Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMarianne Constable - Professor, Rhetoric
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Short book-length manuscript on rhetorical issues in dialogic philosophical texts from Plato to Heidegger (based on upper-division course I have taught several times...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs 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...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul 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...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul 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? Intellectual historians tell us that how people have expressed their emotions changes over time. Some of my questions...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRaul Coronado - Professor, Ethnic Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Seeking a project manager who can supervise the transcription and proofreading of transcribed 19th century Latinx family papers. Most of these archival documents have been scanned into more than 10,000 PNG files and have been transcribed by Google Gemini. A group of apprentices will work in groups to continue to...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesClayton 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The THESIS Lab (Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools) features a vibrant team of postdoctoral scholars / staff, PhD students, Masters students, and undergraduate students. Led by Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond with support from Dr. Stephanie Guinosso, we are conducting an array of quantitative methods projects using data...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Darling-Hammond - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The THESIS Lab (Thriving and Health Equity through Social Inclusion in Schools) features a vibrant team of postdoctoral scholars / staff, PhD students, Masters students, and undergraduate students. Led by Dr. Sean Darling-Hammond with support from Dr. Stephanie Guinosso, we are conducting an array of qualitative and quantitative methods projects...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Local laws shape housing, policing, business activity, public health, and everyday interactions with government. Yet these laws are scattered across thousands of websites, databases, and poorly structured PDFs, making them surprisingly difficult to find, compare, or study systematically. The Local Laws Observatory is building research infrastructure for collecting, organizing, searching...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Institutions influence behavior through more than incentives. They shape what people notice, how they interpret information, what they value, and when they feel responsible for acting. This project brings together several behavioral and experimental studies that will be developed or prepared for publication during Fall 2026. The studies examine questions...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Berkeley Public Interest Technology Clinic works directly with public agencies and nonprofit organizations on consequential operational and policy problems. Rather than beginning with a preselected technology, the Clinic helps partners clarify the decision they need to make, determine what evidence is available, and develop a technically credible and institutionally...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Guns and power go together. Like today, most forms of inequality in the global 19th century depended on a weapons gap. The unequal distribution of firearms helped determine power relations both between countries and within countries. Where did all those guns come from? And why did some have so many...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceBrian DeLay - Professor, History
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
None of the revolutionaries who transformed the Americas in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries could mass-produce their own guns and ammunition. They had to rely on the international arms trade. Aim at Empire is the first book to explore how access to weapons (or lack thereof) shaped...
Social Sciences Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano DellaVigna - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This URAP project exposes the students to 2-3 ongoing projects that the professor (Stefano) is working on. The idea of this URAP group is to provide a sampling of research at the frontier in applied behavioral economics and in other areas of applied microeconomics that Stefano works on. As such...
Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
If you have any questions, email our lab manager, Nafia Rahaman, at ucdreamslabmanager@berkeley.edu. Make sure the subject title is "UC DREAMS Lab Spring 2026 Research Assistant Interest". In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesRobert Edelstein - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
URAP participants are expected to work between 9 and 12 hours per week (pursuant to the mutually agreed upon contract between the student and Professor Edelstein). Usually, the URAP team will meet with Professor Edelstein on an as needed basis to discuss assignments, provide findings as well as interact about...
Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In order to eligible for the position you MUST COMPLETE THIS GOOGLE FORM and URAP application: https://forms.gle/9iweDwC2JrRNP82a8 We address questions about the evolution and development of socio-cognitive skills by comparing humans to other animals (mostly chimpanzees, our closest living relatives) and by studying how children develop. How...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesJan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To apply, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/3JBREzYm2rGJoALy7 By thinking together, human beings achieve things that are impossible for our primate relatives. In the long term, this is facilitated by cumulative culture: our capacity to absorb and transmit information through subsequent generations. Within each generation, this iterative...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This is an opportunity to work on technical projects involving ML/AI. The projects include: (i) working with a large dataset of over 400 million employment profiles (resumes) in order to understand global employment dynamics and firm performance by structuring and analyze the large textual data; (ii) building custom large...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project supports Professor Anastassia Fedyk’s research and policy work with web development and graphic design. The project involves maintaining and improving policy-related web resources such as Econ4UA.org, as well as designing and running experimental RCTs and surveys (sometimes involving new websites, sometimes executing simple Qualtrics surveys). Finally, the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project assists in Professor Fedyk's more practical research, including not only her research papers but also frequent media interviews and the op-eds she writes for outlets such as Washington Post and LA Times. Example topics covered in this project include: Macroeconomic policies in the US and abroad; Measuring...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesAnastassia Fedyk - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on data: hand-collecting new data, improving existing data, and structuring large messy data. Today, very large data sets are often at the heart of many social science research questions. However, those data sets can be plagued by big data problems: missing data, bad data, duplicate data...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesDaniel Fisher - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
I am seeking 1-2 interns to assist a project spanning Sound Studies and Experimental Ethnography. The project aims to identify emergent research clusters of note in Sound Studies and Experimental Ethnographic research and to make the aims and aspirations of this research available to broader audiences across the US and...
Social SciencesMia Fuller - Professor, Institute of European Studies
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is the ideal URAP for students interested in a career in international diplomacy and/or foreign affairs. The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe -- its people, culture, languages, and politics -- through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in teaching to personalize instruction, provide rapid formative feedback, support tutoring and practice through adaptive systems, and help instructors modify or extend existing course materials more efficiently than traditional lecture re-recording allows. AI tools can generate examples, quizzes, simulations, and alternative explanations tailored...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare is a health economics research center that conducts empirical research to inform health policy. Our research examines how healthcare markets, financing, and regulation affect the cost, quality, and accessibility of care. Current and past projects address healthcare market...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year. Hence, the potential for private investment to improve equity is significant, but would be the rate of...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Part 1: The U.S. medical education system is not value-based, but instead relies on a one-size-fits-all approach with one of the longest education and training durations among developed countries. The length of time required to become a physician increases healthcare costs and limits access to care...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesLupe Gallegos-Diaz - Lecturer, Chicanx Latinx Academic Student Development Office
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will be researching the various roles that Chicanxs and Latinxs alumni have played on the UC Berkeley campus. The research project will uplift, highlight and recognize 1) Chicanx Latinx alumni 2) their various intersectional identities focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, immigration, class and regionality 3)and generational...
150 Years of Women at Berkeley Social SciencesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Passionated and interested applied econometrics, statistics, data analysis, and economic development ? Join us. *** Project 1: Hard and Soft Skills for Youth in Uganda 4y and 9y follow-ups*** Data has been collected, now we study the medium and long term impacts (4y and 9y) of two exciting youth entrepreneurship and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Interested in field experiments, primary data collection, and research management? Join a research team at UC Berkeley studying how to support student mental health at scale. Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, and Gautam Rao are leading a randomized evaluation of a new approach to wellness support for students at UC Berkeley...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project examines the landscape of GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) medication access and availability in the United States, with particular focus on how policies, insurance coverage, and healthcare infrastructure shape patient outcomes. Undergraduates will contribute to a comprehensive policy analysis that traces the evolution of GLP-1...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPaul Gertler - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Join a dynamic research team conducting multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs) studying financial inclusion, digital credit, and entrepreneurship training in East Africa and around the world. This position offers hands-on experience with active field experiments and completed studies now in the analysis phase—ideal preparation for predoc positions and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAnu Manchikanti Gomez - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Profound racialized inequities in maternal and infant mortality, preterm birth, and maternal morbidity disproportionately affect Black pregnant people and their infants in the U.S. Economic insecurity during pregnancy is a critical social determinant of maternal and infant health. Lower income during pregnancy is associated with higher and more sustained levels...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesAlison Gopnik - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
All research in the Gopnik Cognitive Development and Learning Lab is broadly focused on children's development of cause and effect reasoning and how they learn from and about other people. We are looking for dedicated and motivated undergraduate students interested in pursuing a graduate degree in developmental psychology or a...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesBryan Graham - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Sports analytics involves the use of data to improve training, performance and in-competition decision-making. The field has grown tremendously over the past 25+ years. Many professional and collegiate teams rely on analytics professionals for scouting, recruitment and athlete retention. Sports analytics also influences current practice in sports journalism...
Social SciencesDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
HANDCOLOR is a meditation on the strange tenderness of handcolored photographs. Although I consider professional studio work, I focus on amateur practice of painting directly onto black and white photographs from the 1860s to 1950s. HANDCOLOR is now in preparation for publication in 2027 by the George Eastman Museum (Rochester...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at BerkeleyDarcy Gimaldo Grigsby - Professor, Art History
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In 2023 I curated Alexandre Dumas’s Afro: Blackness Caricatured, Erased, and Back Again, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) April 12-July 30, 2023 with the assistance of my graduate advisee Vanessa Jackson. The exhibition featured my extensive collection of caricatures and cartes- de-visite of...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences 150 Years of Women at Berkeley