Sociology of Gender at UC Berkeley

06/15/2019

Congratulations to the fabulous Tara Gonsalves who recently became the new Philip Brett LGBT Studies Fellow! The fellowship recognizes her important research on rise of international transgender advocacy and gender variance across global contexts. Well done, Tara!
https://grad.berkeley.edu/news/headlines/honors-awards/philip-brett-fellowship/?fbclid=IwAR26F9GIynZIvZySnJGMLAnLVVP1PZbWr564rSzVviG2DcHKw5903IeJYbU

05/26/2017

Huge Congratulations to Katherine Maich, who has received the 2017 Cheryl Allyn Miller Award from SWS! Dr. Maich's dissertation, entitled "Domesticating Democracy: Labor Rights at Home in Lima and New York City," comparatively examines domestic workers movements in Lima and New York City, locating issues of gender inequality, domestic labor, and the promise and pitfalls of legal remedies within the historical and present-day contexts of colonialism and racism. Congrats, Kate! We look forward to celebrating with you on Monday, August 14th in Montreal!

07/21/2016

More incredible insight from Dawn Dow, alum of Berkeley and currently at University of Maryland, on police shootings, race, and the contemporary politics of 'freedom.'

By Dawn Marie Dow A couple of weeks ago Jesse Williams, an actor most known for his role as Avery Jackson on the hit television show Grey’s Anatomy, delivered an incisive speech at the Black …

03/05/2016

Dawn Dow's latest work on African American middle-class mothers just hit the pages of Gender & Society!

Through 60 in-depth interviews with African American middle- and upper-middle-class mothers, this article examines how the controlling image of the “thug” influences the concerns these mothers have for their sons and how they parent their sons in light of those concerns. Participants were principall…

08/17/2015

Berkeley Alum Abigail Andrews breaks down binaries in immigration enforcement in her latest piece for the Scholars Strategy Network.

In recent decades, the United States has seen a spectacular rise in deportations, with local police forces authorized by the federal government to identify undocumented immigrants for summary removal. More than 11 million undocumented people across the country – including up to one in ten adult work…

07/01/2015

Insightful as Always: Berkeley Alum Dawn Dow on why "Sending in the Moms" is not the answer

Recently a video went viral depicting a woman named Toya Graham hitting, slapping and dragging her son from the streets of Baltimore with the goal of preventing him from participating in the civil unrest that began after the death of Freddy Gray. Mr. Gray was a young African American man who was dra…

05/07/2015

The Gender Workshop 2014-15 Happy Hour! Celebrating a great year of the Sociology of Gender community at UC Berkeley, thanks to Raka Ray [aka The Rak-star]

04/18/2015

Kimberly Hoang's new book "Dealing in Desire" is out with University of California Press! Congrats, Kimberly!!

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s s*x industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian busines...

02/27/2015

University of Toronto was lucky enough to host Raka Ray this week for not one but two talks on The Precarious Middle Class in India's New Economy!

10/16/2014

Foucault's Birthday....it happened.

10/16/2014

Check out Kimberly Kay Hoang's latest Gender & Society post - a peak into her forthcoming book at UC Press!

by Kimberly Hoang One evening during my months of fieldwork in various strata of Ho Chi Ming City’s (HCMC) s*x industry, a young woman returned to work after obtaining a rhinoplasty. With a bruised...