Affiliated Centers
Recap
Published March 19, 2019
2019 Citrin Center Award: Peter D. Hart, “The 2020 Election”
Recorded on March 5, 2019, this video honors Peter D. Hart with the 2019 Citrin Award, as he presents an interactive talk about the 2020 election and the future of political polling.
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News
Published December 1, 2018
Winner and Losers in the 2018 Midterm Elections
Recorded on November 15, this "post-mortem" panel featured a group of scholars—experts on Congress, public opinion, and voting behavior—discussing the outcomes of the 2018 midterm elections.
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Recap
Published November 28, 2018
The New Research Compact: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good
In this Matrix Distinguished Lecture recorded on November 15, 2019, Alondra Nelson, President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, discussed findings from a recent SSRC report and assessed the myriad challenges and threats facing social science research.
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Published November 11, 2018
Getting the Facts on Sexual Violence & Sexual Harassment
Recorded on October 25 at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, this panel discussion focused on the limits of what can be learned about sexual violence and harassment from personal narratives that are shared online, as well as the question of what is missed in survey data related to sexual violence.
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Article
Published November 27, 2017
A Tax to Support ‘Made in the USA’
UC Berkeley economics professor Alan Auerbach works with Washington, D.C. policymakers in his quest for corporate tax reform—including implementing a tax focused on where products are consumed, not where they are produced.
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Published October 9, 2017
Electing Peace
In her new book, Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation, Aila Matanock, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Political Science, looks at the role of elections in post-conflict peace agreements.
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Published September 21, 2017
Matrix Welcomes 2017-2018 Dissertation Fellows
From improving census measurements in developing nations to exploring environmentally balanced livestock policies, this year's Social Science Matrix Dissertation Fellows are tackling important challenges that span disciplinary boundaries.
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News
Published October 10, 2016
Matrix Welcomes 2016-2017 Dissertation Fellows
Social Science Matrix is honored to welcome our inaugural group of Matrix Dissertation Fellows, five Ph.D. students whose research has strong potential to generate effective solutions to critical global challenges.
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Published December 9, 2015
Juana María Rodríguez: “Statistics and Queer Theory”
Professor Juana María Rodríguez, from UC Berkeley's Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, suggests that scholars in the field of Queer Studies would benefit from a turn to statistics as a lens into bisexuality and other identities.
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Published October 4, 2015
Hanks Receives Staley Book Prize
Congratulations to William F. Hanks, UC Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology and Director of Social Science Matrix, for receiving the 2015 J.I. Staley Book Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of anthropology.
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Published September 22, 2015
Robin T. Lakoff: “What’s Up With Upspeak?”
The linguistic phenomenon known as “upspeak” has long been linked to a broader pattern of gender relations, thanks to the work of UC Berkeley’s Robin T. Lakoff, Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics.
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Article
Published June 10, 2015
Penelope Anthias: “Gas and Land Rights in Bolivia”
In Bolivia, conflicting interests have led to complicated internal struggles over rights, land, and money, says a postdoctoral fellow in UC Berkeley's Department of Geography.
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