Social science | Expert Topics

Michael Burawoy

Professor of sociology

Area of expertise: attitude toward the United States in a global context; fabric of modern society, fragility of modern society .

Neil Fligstein

Professor of sociology

(510) 643-1957

Area of expertise: culture clash between American corporate values and other cultures, including those in the Islamic world.

Areas of expertise: Social psychology; criminal justice, including police "implicit bias" and police reform; political psychology; stereotyping; prejudice and discrimination. Author of "Suspect Race: Causes & Consequences of Racial Profiling" (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Xin Liu

Professor of anthropology

Areas of expertise: social cultural anthropology, history of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory.

Samuel Lucas

Professor of sociology

lucas@berkeley.edu

Expertise: sociology of education, testing, statistical analysis, racial inequality, alternatives to securing racial diversity and their limitations.

Paul Rabinow

Professor of medical anthropology

Areas of expertise: Cultural anthropology, philosophy of human and life sciences, modernity, the contemporary, France.

Philip Stark

Professor of statistics

Areas of interest: ballot integrity, auditing results of close elections; adjustments to the census, overcount and errors in the census, and inferences from large data sets.