Society News

Fellow Blake Gutt and co-editors were named one of five finalists for a Lambda Literary Award in the Transgender Nonfiction category for their publication Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval…

Alumni Fellow and musicologist Juan Fernando Velásquez explores the Columbian cacerolazo to offer a global perspective on the ways that noise has become an eloquent means of expression to public…

Incoming fellow Rijul Kochhar discusses his research on the changing medical and microbial realities of antiobiotics and what they portend for society. Read more about his research at MIT News.

Postdoctoral fellow and public policy researcher Ben Green explains how emergencies present moments where governments can roll out new invasive forms of data collection through smart technology. Read more at…

The University Record spotlights dramaturg, dance historian, and theorist Clare Croft, alumni fellow (2010-12) and associate professor of American culture. Learn about the roots of Clare’s love of dance, her…

Congratulations to alumni fellow and assistant professor Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi (2017-20) on her appointment to the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty at Berkeley! On January 1, 2022 she will join the…

Postdoctoral fellow and complex systems scientist Mitchell Newberry explains. Read his perspective on The Conversation.

Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Neil Gong explores California’s strategy of “tolerant containment” as it applies to the state’s homelessness problem and what it means with an eviction…

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Blake Gutt on the publication of his co-edited volume entitled Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography! About the Publication Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval…