June 6, 2019
Brett Fellowship helps propel research on international transgender identity and activism.
January 7, 2019
Through its Minority Fellowship Program (MFP), the American Sociological Association (ASA) supports the development and training of sociologists of color in any sub-area or specialty in the discipline. MFP seeks to attract talented doctoral students to ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available to…
January 2, 2019
The Institute of International Studies is accepting applications for the Reinard Bendix Memorial Fellowship. This award commemorates the scholarly achievements of the late Reinhard Bendix, Professor of Sociology and Political Science at UC Berkeley. The fellowship is given annually to students who show promise of advancing scholarship in the field of…
May 12, 2017
Letters & Sciences has four fellowship opportunities for new and continuing Sociology graduate students. Gan Aston Fellowship is for graduate students whose research focuses on the economic and/or social history of China or Chinese communities abroad since 1750. Write a narrative report describing your applicable research.
February 7, 2017
Sciences Po welcomes applications from post-doctoral and doctoral students close to their thesis submission for teaching positions on one of its three Anglophone undergraduate campuses in France: Reims, Menton or Le Havre. Each campus focuses on a world region and offers a 3-year Bachelor of Arts degree in History,…
May 14, 2013
UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Roi Livne and alumna Elham Mireshghi were among 22 fellows selected to receive a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
March 6, 2013
These fellowships provide funding for UC Berkeley graduate students conducting various predissertation and dissertation research projects that explore social science issues on an international scale. Three separate fellowships, the Reinhard Bendix Memorial Fellowship, the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, and the John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship, all…
June 1, 2012
These 12 people, in some ways the crème de la crème of this year's top graduate student instructors, have effectively, and often cleverly, identified, addressed, and documented a teaching problem they encountered and, for the benefit of all, told how they solved it. Read, for instance, how Sonja Schwartz reinvented the bean jar.
April 6, 2012
The Social Science Research Council is accepting applications for the Rachel Tanur Prize for Visual Sociology.  The prize recognizes students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis in their work. Up to three prizes will be awarded at the Second ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization, to be…
June 23, 2011
Of the many, many GSIs on campus, nearly 300 were singled out as Outstanding Graduate Student Instructors by the Graduate Division's GSI Center --- and 10 GSIs were given special recognition for their innovative solutions to teaching problems.
June 23, 2011
The unselfish help of mentors was recently recognized by the Graduate Division, the Sarlo Foundation, and the Graduate Assembly, in a warm gathering and in two friendly ambush-style presentations.
April 8, 2008
We are pleased to announce the 2008 recipients of the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Awards. These awards have been made possible by a grant from the Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund. They are administered by the Graduate Division in collaboration with the Graduate Council of the Academic Senate.
November 13, 2007
Reams of academic research abound across the country on how to raise happy children, but who has the time to read this myriad of findings, boil down the facts, and then turn them into practical parenting advice? The University of California, Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center is taking on the job with its new website on how to foster joy and avoid brattish behavior in children.