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Joshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAnna Livia Brand - Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project explores how racism and racial geographies were reenacted after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. It traces the redevelopment of three neighborhoods and the evolution of planning processes and development decisions, asking who they most benefit and who they most exclude...
Social SciencesAnna 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...
Social SciencesAnna 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...
Social SciencesJustin Brashares - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid climate change has amplified drought conditions in deserts, where many species already subsist at their physiological limits. However, management interventions, such as artificial water catchments may allow some wildlife to persist despite drought. This project examines the influence of artificial water catchments on large mammals, bats, birds, and reptiles...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesJustin 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...
Social Sciences Environmental IssuesCharles Briggs - Professor, Latinx Research Center
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
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 Body and Soul: The Black Panters and the Fight Against Medical...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesTolani 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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...
Social SciencesClair Brown - Professor, Economics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project focuses on California legislation to mandate that the large public pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, divest from fossil fuel assets [stocks and bonds]. The students will work on adding data and research studies to what has already been collected and used in making rigorous arguments for divestment...
Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesTianna Bruno - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Environmental Issues Social SciencesRyan 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...
Social SciencesJennifer 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJennifer 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...
Engineering, Design & Technologies 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
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...
Social SciencesYu-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...
Social SciencesJennifer Chatman - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social SciencesEmmeline 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...
Social SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
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 is part of the National Village Movement, and is grassroots, member-driven, and self-governing...
Social SciencesRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Larry Bell is an American artist who has explored perceptions of space and light through the medium of glass for over sixty years. Always prolific, he has never been more active or experimental than he is today at the age of 82. Based both in Venice, California and Taos, New...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesRobin Clark - Visiting Scholar, Beatrice Bain Research Group
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The long artistic career of Josef Albers (born Bottrop, Germany 1888 and died New Haven, Connecticut 1976) developed in tandem with his path-breaking work as an art educator. His focus on tactile experimentation and visual perception profoundly influenced his students first at the at the Bauhaus in Germany and...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyAnne Collins - Professor, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed 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...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyElena 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...
Social SciencesElena Conis - Professor, Journalism
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In the United States, vaccine mandates are normally bundled with exemptions that permit certain individuals to forego vaccination. Traditionally, these exemptions come in three forms: medical, religious, and personal. The medical exemption has remained a generally uncontroversial norm since its inception, and historical scholarship has well characterized the chronology of...
Social SciencesElena 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...
Social SciencesMeg Conkey - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
In preparation for the submission of documents related to the 40 year history of how the study of gender and a feminist perspective developed in archaeology, this project will involve sorting and categorizing (and reading in order to do so!) all sorts of documents from conferences, correspondence, audio tapes, drafts...
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 SciencesRaul 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...
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 Latinx feelings? How can private writing give us access to how Mexicans in the Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas) thought about their feelings, their interiority, their sense of self? This project will turn to nineteenth-century Spanish-Mexican private writing--letters, notebooks...
Arts & Humanities Social SciencesMark Courtney - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated 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...
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: *Would you as an entrepreneur rather seek...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The conventional wisdom on the source of economic growth emphasizes inclusive institutions: constraints on state elites, which allow open access to political and economic power. Yet, in many contexts where economic growth has emerged, we see the partnership of powerful, coercive (often nondemocratic) states and private enterprise: from Industrial Revolution...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesErnesto Dal Bó - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Who gets patronage jobs in the public sector? Do patronage employees reciprocate by mobilizing votes for their patrons? We study these questions in the context of the archetypical patronage organization in US history: New York City’s Tammany Hall. We are digitizing and linking newly collected archival records on the organization’s...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesStefano 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 SciencesJeroen Dewulf - Professor, German
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 & HumanitiesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project consists of the analysis of Beijing's grand strategiy under Xi Jinping, bearing in mind that this strategy has political, economic, anc cultural dimensions.HOw? By reading selected texts of Chinese leaders and intellectuals...
Social SciencesLowell Dittmer - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Sino-American relations have polarized in the past decade or so, with a major impact on American strategic orientation. The focus of this project is the Indo-Pacific strategy currently being worked out to defend American political and economic interests. We are interested in the origins, rationale, and feasibility of...
Social SciencesDavid Dunham - Project Manager, Oral History Center of UC Berkeley
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Oral History Center of UC Berkeley has conducted over 4000 oral histories on a vast array of subjects. We are currently focused on making our collections on Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives, Rosie the Riveter / WWII Home Front, and Women in Politics available online with complete audio synched to transcripts...
Social SciencesArianne Eason - Professor, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
In the UC DREAMS Lab, directed by Professor Eason, we research how our social and cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior, and reinforce inequality. Our social, cultural, and developmental psychology lab is hiring research assistants to help with several projects this semester. Across projects, we investigate prejudice, attitudes, stereotyping, discrimination...
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
How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded in social, cognitive processes? The goal of this project is to investigate how children’s tendencies for reasoning and cooperation inform one another. We aim to understand how the interplay of these processes develops, from early childhood into middle childhood. The subset...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesEllen Evers - Professor, Marketing
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab's research combines cognitive/social psychology, behavioral economics, and judgment and decision making research. Most of our research involves carrying out online or in-person experiments designed to test a hypothesis about human decision-making. Accepted students will work on a variety of projects within this area. Examples of...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologySean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will involve reading judicial opinions from U.S. Court of Appeals focusing on issues affecting access to the civil justice system, such as class certification, damages, standing, and attorney’s fees...
Social SciencesSean Farhang - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs
When Congress passes a law to regulate some facet of social or economic life in the U.S., it must decide whether the law will be enforce through litigation and courts or though bureaucracy, or some combination of the two in mixed approach. This project investigates Congress’ choice between courts and...
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