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Jeske Publishes on Work from UCSF JEDI Course

Developing an intervention tool for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in laboratory settings ABSTRACT

Arreguin Awarded Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring 2025

The Graduate Division and the Office for Postdoctoral Scholars are pleased to honor the recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Awards for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars. The grad students and postdocs below are being recognized for their…

Pérez-Aguilar, Recipient of the 2024 ARENET Transnational Fellowship

Congratulations to Giselle Pérez-Aguilar, recipient of the 2024 ARENET Transnational Fellowship! Giselle will be working on her research "Traditional Healers as a Transnational Portal for Trauma Healing and Liberation Wellness. The referenced media source is missing and needs to be re-embedded…

Alum Alice Wong Among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows

Alice Wong received an MS (2004) in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. She is currently founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and a columnist for Teen Vogue.

LaForge Published in Health Sociology Review: ‘Just because I’m smiling doesn’t mean I’m not in pain’

Sociology student Kate LaForge has been published in Health Sociology Review!  ‘Just because I’m smiling doesn’t mean I’m not in pain’: navigating the layered stigma of chronic pain and suicidality in social worlds' Abstract

Third Annual Innovative and Critical Perspectives in the Social Sciences (ICPSS) colloquium

The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Emancipatory Sciences Lab are thrilled to announce the third annual Innovative and Critical Perspectives in the Social Sciences (ICPSS) colloquium. ICPSS is a venue for scholars to share cutting-edge research in the social…

Harknett Selected as Futures Fellow

Kristen Harknett, PhD, professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, was selected as a 2024-2025 Futures Fellow of Stanford University's Education and Learning for Longer Lives initiative. The project brings together talent from across academia, venture capital, philanthropy and the civil sector to…

Sociology Faculty 2023/24: in the Media and Authored Papers

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Jackson Performs in "The Decarceration Trilogy"

In 2022 UCSF Sociology Doctoral student Jhia Jackson began dancing for Flyaway Productions, a site-specific aerial dance company, joining the company in time for the third part in The Decarceration Trilogy: Dismantling the Prison Industrial Complex one Dance at a Time. Jo Kreiter,…

GradDiv Commencement 2024

On Monday, May 20, the Graduate Division returned to San Francisco’s historic Herbst Theatre for our 2024 Commencement Ceremony, in which we celebrated 155 of this year's master’s and PhD degree candidates.